Community Service Block Grants (CSBG)

Help Save CSBG!

We need your support to help save Iowa Community Service Block Grant programs!

National 2009 CSBG Annual Report

Iowa's Response:

• 2010 Iowa CSBG Data (February 11, 2011)

• Iowa's Response to State of the Union Address  (February 10, 2011)

• CSBG Statement (February 10, 2011)

Additional Responses to Proposed CSBG Cuts: 

• ABC News link - Jonathan Karl-Budget Cuts: Where Does The Money Go? (February 15, 2011)

•  House Appropriators Would Slash More than $65 billion in the Next Seven Months; Vulnerable People Hit Hard (February 14, 2011)

• Telling Community Action’s Stories brochure (February 9, 2011) The “Telling Community Action’s Stories” brochure is now available. This brochure includes highlights from the Storytelling Manual that will help Community Action Agencies write powerful stories to showcase their effective programs. Click here to access the brochure. Please note that it is tri-fold brochure, so double-sided printing and folding are necessary to create the end product. read more »

• Obama's Onslaught on Community Action: A Chilling Message to the Need by: Brett Warnke (February 8, 2011)

• NASCSP - Legislative Update: President to Propose Cuts and Competition  (February 1, 2011)  

• Video -  Interview with White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley on Face the Nation, which included talks on the targeted cuts in CSBG

• Obama to slash community action programs (January 31, 2011)

•  Obama Threatens Community Action Agencies in SOTU (January 29, 2011) 

•  Highlights of the FY 2009 Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Information System Survey Now Available (January 28, 2011)  The Highlights of the FY 2009 Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Information System Survey are now available. With four pages of CSBG data and outcomes, this document is a wealth of information on the impact of the CSBG-funded Community Action Network. read more »  

•  Black leaders rate State of the Union (January 28, 2011)

• Video: Local Community Action Groups Could See Federal Funding Cut  (January 28, 2011)

• Kansas Community Action Network Urges Kansas Residents to Contact Congress (January 28, 2011)

• Obama: Even Program That Work Face Budget Cuts (January 27, 2011)

•  KACAP Responds to the President's State of the Union Speech  (January 27, 2011) Learn more about our reaction in this press release.

•  Obama's Ride Past the Wreckage (January 26, 2011)

• Don’t Compromise the Future: Community Action is the Nation’s Best Hope to “Win the Future”  (January 26, 2011) At a critical time when our most vulnerable citizens need to acquire new skills, find work, and take care of their families, the Obama administration has decided to help balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens through significantly reducing the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), which funds Community Action programs. Last year these programs provided critical supports such as employment, education and housing to 20.7 million vulnerable Americans. read more »

• CACLV Responds to President’s Proposed Cuts to Agency’s Core Funding (January 26, 2011) 

• Winning the Future for Whom? (January 26, 2011)

• Obama Irks Community Organizers (January 26, 2011)

• Moving Forward After The State of the Union Address (January 26, 2011)

   

How you can help:

• Sign Petition to Save CSBG!

• Sign Coalition on Human Needs' Statement to Save Services