Poverty-Systems Change
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– Evaluation –
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Poverty
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on the Self Sufficiency Standards (a measure of Household poverty), the impact of regressive and ineffective tax policies on low-income households, and the problems of recidivism (people who were released from prison going back to criminal activity) in low-income communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
– General Information –
Description: A website for Community Action Partnership, which serves to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. Includes links to training opportunities, events, research, and publications.
Community Development Block Grant Program 
Author: Nance-Sims, Gloria
Description: An informational piece that discusses grants available for community and economic development to benefit low and moderate income people.
Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect
Author: Weber, Bruce
Description: This literature review examines the factors affecting poverty in rural areas. It focuses on studies that explore whether there is a rural effect, i.e., whether there is something about rural places above and beyond demographic characteristics and local economic context that makes poverty more likely in
those places. It concludes with suggestions for research that would address these concerns and explore the processes and institutions in urban and rural areas that determine poverty, outcomes, and policy impacts.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation: Learning in Real Time
Author: Brown, Prudence
Description: This article describes the internal structures and
processes adopted by The Skillman Foundation
to support the iterative practice of “learning and
doing” in the first phase of a rapidly evolving, ambitious community change enterprise in six Detroit
neighborhoods
Left, Right, or Ahead: Creating a New Domestic Policy Framework
Author: Brown, J.
Description: This keynote address was presented by Dr. J. Larry Brown at CYFAR 2002. It discusses poverty and presents a new domestic policy framework based on asset-building policy.
More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persists
Author: Mattingly, Marybeth; Kenneth M. Johnson; Andrew Schaefer
Description: A research brief from the Carsey Institute that overviews the persistence of poverty in rural America and the specific generational impact that this has on children across the United States.
Description: From N.C. Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences specialists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University, a website devoted to providing fact sheets about coping with personal and financial crises. Developed in response to the impact of the current economic situation on communities, youth, and families, this website covers a wide range of topics including: saving money, talking to children about the economy, shopping for healthy foods on a tight budget, avoiding home foreclosure, and other timely topics.
Description: This report provides and overview of how poverty is defined and provides data on people in poverty including characteristics for regions, states, counties, and places with population of 100,000 or more. It also discusses how poverty statistics are used and the accuracy estimates of these statistics.
Updated links can be found at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Exploring Access for Communities
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on improving voter turnout, involving low-income communities in the government budget process, and addressing the digital divide.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Description: A report that provides recent information on poverty trends and demographic characteristics of the rural poor for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural people and their communities.
The Building Blocks of Community Development
Description: This resource presents a model of community development that focuses upon attracting high-quality jobs that add more value to communities. Through the addition of the high-quality jobs, community assets and income are increased and the overall quality of the community environment is improved.
Author: Wollman, Neil; Heidi Gross; James Brumbraugh-Smith; Bradley Yoder
Description: This research brief from Manchester College reports on poverty rates and income levels for several groups in the US population between 1995 and 2004.
– Professional Development –
Description: A website for Community Action Partnership, which serves to be a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed. Includes links to training opportunities, events, research, and publications.
Author: Wollman, Neil; Heidi Gross; James Brumbraugh-Smith; Bradley Yoder
Description: This research brief from Manchester College reports on poverty rates and income levels for several groups in the US population between 1995 and 2004.
– Programming Resource –
Community Development Block Grant Program
Author: Nance-Sims, Gloria
Description: An informational piece that discusses grants available for community and economic development to benefit low and moderate income people.
Description: An abstract to Community Voices, which is a curriculum designed to:
1.Teach leadership development skills to the limited-resource audience.
2.Develop a leadership base in limited-resource communities for addressing community-identified issues and problems.
3.Provide Extension a base from which to extend ongoing programs to these new audiences, and involve new leaders in existing organizational leadership structures.
4.Build the capacity of Cooperative Extension, in 1862 as well as 1890 Extension efforts, to address the leadership development program needs of limited-resource audiences.
Description: Chapter 4 in a manual that addresses community strategies to help families become
self-sufficient. This chapter discusses issues associated with gaining employers' suppport for new work force members.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
netWORKS: a guide to expanding the employment networks of low-income people
Author: Wycoff, Laura; Carol Clymer
Description: A guide that provides information and guidance on how organizations can incorporate networking into their programs. This guide also provides instructions for classroom activities and assignments. It is designed for program managers, job-skill trainers, and job developers. The purpose of this guide is to facilitate programs that want to help participants build their networks so that participants can use those networks to search for jobs.
Poverty and Brain Development in Early Childhood
Description: This fact sheet describes the multiple ways in which poverty negatively impacts children's brain development. Inadequate nutrition, substance abuse, maternal depression, exposure to environmental toxins, trauma/abuse, and quality of daily care are discussed.
Description: Created by the Poverty in America Project, the Poverty in America website provides current information on the economic conditions in American Society. The site includes links to tools that provide statistics for individual state and county economic trends across the United States.
Description: A video clip that takes viewers through a poverty simulation. It includes information about budgeting for poverty, including housing, transportation, food, and child care.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
– Research –
Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect
Author: Weber, Bruce
Description: This literature review examines the factors affecting poverty in rural areas. It focuses on studies that explore whether there is a rural effect, i.e., whether there is something about rural places above and beyond demographic characteristics and local economic context that makes poverty more likely in
those places. It concludes with suggestions for research that would address these concerns and explore the processes and institutions in urban and rural areas that determine poverty, outcomes, and policy impacts.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
EZ/EC Initiative Stimulates Economic Progress in Rural Communities
Author: Aigner, Stephen; Carrie Wilcox, Julie N. Zimmerman; Cornelia Flora, Syed Noor Tirmizi,
Description: The Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative is a ten year initiative attempting to deal with severe poverty by focusing on the locale rather than on individuals. Community-based partnerships and citizen participation are described as key elements of community ecomonic success.
Description: This report provides and overview of how poverty is defined and provides data on people in poverty including characteristics for regions, states, counties, and places with population of 100,000 or more. It also discusses how poverty statistics are used and the accuracy estimates of these statistics.
Updated links can be found at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Exploring Access for Communities
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on improving voter turnout, involving low-income communities in the government budget process, and addressing the digital divide.
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Poverty
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on the Self Sufficiency Standards (a measure of Household poverty), the impact of regressive and ineffective tax policies on low-income households, and the problems of recidivism (people who were released from prison going back to criminal activity) in low-income communities.
Description: A report that provides recent information on poverty trends and demographic characteristics of the rural poor for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural people and their communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.