Announcements

Congratulations!

The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. In November, FCD will gather its friends and colleagues in New York to recommit to its mission of understanding and improving the lives of children and families.

For more information on the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation’s (MRBF) Organizational Development program, discussed by Sandra Mikush in the Spring 1999 NFG Reports, see the Foundation’s 1998 Annual Report. To order, contact MRBF at 2522 Reynolds Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106-5123, or call 336-748-9222.

Recommended Reading

• Citizen Power: Stories of America’s New Civic Spirit is a new book about grassroots democracy in Kentucky. Written by Robin Epstein, who wrote an article earlier this year for NFG Reports, Citizen Power chronicles the struggles, adventures, and life-changing experiences of ordinary citizens in rural Kentucky. In nine true stories, these citizens describe how they are fighting to protect the health of their families and communities. The book includes an introduction by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a resource guide to hundreds of citizen-based organizations in all 50 states, and a list of outstanding civic websites. To order, contact the Democracy Resource Center at 606-278-8644 or email info@kydrc.org.

• The Poverty Despite Work Handbook: Data and Guidelines for Preparing a Report on the Working Poor in Each State was recently updated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).  Based on the most recent data from the U.S. Census, it provides the information needed to paint an accurate picture of the extent of work among poor families in each state. To order, contact CBPP at 202-408-1080 or visit their web site at www.cbpp.org.

• Partnerships for Parks: Lessons from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Urban Parks Program is an evaluation of the Fund’s national initiative to increase the quality and quantity of urban parks for public use.  The report, written by the Urban Institute’s Chris Walker, is part of an ongoing evaluation by the Urban Institute. The report is a useful tool for analyzing how to make partnerships between nonprofit organizations and government agencies succeed.  To order, contact the Urban Institute toll-free at 1-877-UIPRESS, or download the report from their website at www.urban.org/pubs/parks. For information about the Fund’s Urban Parks Program in the future, contact Ariel Mitchell by fax at 212-679-6990.

• Making the Grade: A Racial Justice Report Card from the Applied Research Center (ARC), provides parents, students, journalists, and other researchers a way to assess the level of racial equality within their public school or school district. The report is available on ARC’s website at www.arc.org. 

• “Looking to the Millennium and the Legislature: Revisiting Low-Income Programs” is the next series of audio conferences from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Seven one-hour sessions on topics including the 2002 reauthorization, Medicaid expansion, and job advancement begin September 24. For further information, call the CLASP Audio Conference Line at 202-797-6535 or visit the CLASP’s website at www.clasp.org

• Working Far From Home: Transportation and Welfare Reform in the 10 Big States, a report by Margy Waller of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and Mark Alan Hughes of the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Center of Government, examines transportation policies in the context of welfare reform. To order, contact PPI at 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20003 or find the report on PPI’s website at www.dlcppi.org/texts/social/transportation.htm.

• The State of the Nation’s Housing 1999 from the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies was released in June. It notes that while homeownership reached a record high of 66.3 percent nationwide and heavy gains were made in employment and income, about four million extremely low-income renters pay more than half their incomes for housing. The report is loaded with useful information. To order, contact 617-495-7908 or find the report online at www.gsd.harvard.edu/jcenter.

• School-to-Work Directory for New York and New Jersey is a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Bank’s Office of Regional and Community Affairs explores the potential linkages between School-to-Work, community economic development, and the Community Reinvestment Act. It provides a sample of successful New York and New Jersey School-to-Work partnerships and presents a framework for assessing viable school-to-work activities. To order, contact Leslie Meek at 212-720-2789.

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