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Center for
Community Futures
P.O. Box 5309
Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone: 510-339-3801
Fax: 510-339-3803
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The
Center for Community Futures helps you expand your
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For Video and Audio files from the
National Symposium on Poverty
and Economic Security
(a part of the National Conversation on Poverty and Economic
Security) held in Bethesda, MD May 29-31, 2007, please
click here.
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Agencies in
Santa Clara County:
Please click this link for
more information.
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Policies and Procedures Management:
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Policies On Diskette 2010 for
Local Head Start Programs is a handy,
comprehensive and thoroughly referenced printed
policy manual and CD-Rom, based
on the September 10, 2009 Monitoring Protocol’s structure and referenced
regulations, plus all of the performance standards,
to bring your program’s policies and procedures up-to-date and in compliance
with the new review tool.
It includes hundreds of draft policies and
procedures ready for your program’s editing, review, and approval process.
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Policy Manager Two is
software for managing the thousands of
Federal regulations and Performance
Standards AND for managing policies and
procedures, area plans, review
questions, responsibilities, and more. |
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Use the
handy Review READY! Workbook
to help get ready for your next Federal
review. See how each FY 2010 Monitoring
Protocol Compliance Question relates to
the Federal Regulations and Performance
Standards. Assess your status and track
progress on meeting each requirement.
Note who is responsible for what and
when. Keep track of corrective actions
needed or taken. Manage the updating
process. Share program information and
progress. Show the Reviewers how well
your program is doing. |
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Reference Map of
Regulations, Review
Questions, and Related
Policies |
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Indispensible 706-page PDF file
shows the text of
the Performance Standards, with CFR
references; the text of the Federal
regulations that apply to Head Start,
with code references; references to the
2010 Monitoring Protocol review
questions that apply to the
requirements; references to the Policy
IDs and Policy Subjects from Policies
On Diskette; and is sorted by CFR
number for easy navigation. Use it to
see if you have policies and procedures
in place as needed. Use it to see the
text of the regulations related to the
Monitoring Protocol review questions.
Use it as a handy reference tool –
nearly 10,000 regulations in one
document, cross-referenced to our draft
policies.
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We can
help
make your program’s policies and
procedures complete, thorough, and
up-to-date. |
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Click
the link to the left for a Free
Comparison
of the changes between the February 27,
2009 Monitoring Protocol and the
September 10, 2009 (2010) Monitoring
Protocol, in PDF format.
For a Free
Comparison of the changes between the January 10, 2009
Monitoring Protocol and the February 27, 2009 Monitoring Protocol,
click
here for the Microsoft Word file. |
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Compare this Kit with
the Fiscal Assistant! |
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Additional Essential Resources for Head Start
Programs:
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Use our services
to help conduct a parent evaluation of the quality of your Head
Start program. |
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A
real-life example of a Community
Assessment and a workbook
describing methods for you to use to
produce the exact data you need for your
Community Assessment to meet Head Start
standards. By Elizabeth W.
Morris, Ph.D. |
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We can
help you with your program's community
assessment. Click the link to the
left for our proposal
in PDF format. |
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The
Salary Survey Report of Local
Head Start Programs 2009
presents the data collected from our
national Salary Survey of Local Head
Start Programs, including fringe
benefits, pay rates, and personnel
policies. This unique Report includes
data from 169 Head Start programs on:
• 134 key Head Start positions, from
Accountant to Volunteerism Coordinator;
• Fringe benefits and leave practices,
including data on:
o Insurance coverage: Health, Dental,
Life, Disability, and Vision (single and
dependent);
o Tuition reimbursement;
o Retirement benefits;
o Vacation days and sick leave;
• Personnel policies, including:
o Paid holidays
o Paid maternity leave
o Workweek hours
o Flex time and job sharing
o Mileage reimbursement rates
o COLA and Merit Pay increases
o And more. |
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Family Development and Case Management Training
Basic
Skills 1 and Basic Skills 2
Summer Institutes training
based on the ACYF Information Memorandum
IM-HS-01-08, at UC Berkeley;
Management Institute in San
Francisco, CA
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Case Management for Head Start Programs
The
Handouts
from the Summer Institutes |
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This Recruitment!
workbook presents the essential
principles of successful marketing and
applies the proven strategies used by
the private sector to attract customers.
It provides tools and how-to's for you
to develop recruitment strategies that
work and help you meet your goals. |
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We can
help you develop a web site for your
Head Start program. |
Click here for the Table of
Contents.
Click on a link to download these
Word documents, or click here to view these Free documents from the
OCS Project to Develop a 21st Century Model to End Poverty:
1)
SECTION 1 of
Maximizing Personal Potential for National Prosperity:
A blueprint for changing the way this country thinks about and
addresses poverty. This is the summary, the first 41
pages of the original document.
2)
The rest of the document: Maximizing Personal Potential
for National Prosperity:
A blueprint for changing the way this country thinks about
and addresses poverty. This is a LARGE file, over 450
pages in Word, starting on page 42.
3)
Reference Table of Federal
programs addressing poverty (Excel) (consolidation of three
tables included in #2 above)
1. Download the
FREE file on
Social Enterprise Development Process (MS Word)
2. Download the FREE Social Enterprise Manual and Tool Kit, in
Word
or PDF
format.
3. Hire Jim to help
out!
4. Order the
Handouts from the
Social Enterprise Conference, November 2002. $75.
5. Other resources
6. Get info for
future conference
OCS hired
us to look at how CAA's had been involved in several disasters that took
place from the 1960's to 1994. We interviewed 108 CAA's that had
been involved in Hurricanes like Hugo, Iniki and Andrew, or that had
helped on fires, floods, tornados and other calamities. There have
been a LOT of disasters over the years that resulted in an
official Presidential Declaration. The findings were shaped into
59 "lessons learned." Download the free report by clicking
here.
Click on the links below to access the review in Microsoft Word format.
(Right-click and select "Save Target As..." to download the file.
If your system asks for a
password, click on the Cancel button.)
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OEO Instruction 6320-1:
The Mission of the Community Action Agency. November 16,
1970, Donald Rumsfeld. (Referenced by David Bradley in his July,
2005 article in the NASCSP Newsletter).
Click here for the
file in PDF format.
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Plusses and Issues
on automating most or all of the application process for
transfer payments including LIHEAP, Food Stamps, SSI, TANF, etc.
(Both Texas and California are working on this approach
for TANF). By Jim Masters, updated August 17, 2005.
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Let's Get More
Clear about Managing the Amount of Social Control. By
Jim Masters, September, 2004.
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Why
Comparing the War on Poverty with Welfare Reform Won’t Work.
By Jim Masters, updated August 16, 2005.
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Rebuilding the Program
Development Function: Stop "Waiting for Godot!" By Jim
Masters, April 13, 2005.
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How
to Guarantee Pensions for Poor People – Just Like the Private
Sector Does It. By Jim Masters,
September, 2005
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Welfare
Reform? We're Still Waiting! By Jim Masters, August
2004.
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Why Some Historic Anti Poverty Strategies No Longer Work.
By Jim Masters, August 2005.
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(Re-)Defining
and Measuring Poverty:
Challenges and Opportunities.
By Jim Masters and Teresa Wickstrom, July 21, 2004.
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Symbiosis:
Symbiotic Relationships. By Jim Masters, February 2005.
- Want to Get People out of Poverty? Replace
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with
Masters
Circles of Strength. July, 2004.
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The Current
Era. Where America is today. February 27, 2004.
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Stop
Calling Them Clients! Eliminate the use of obsolete
terms. August 6, 2004.
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Thoughts on Leadership and Succession Planning. Where we
are. April, 2004.
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Social Values
and Public Policy: From Opportunities to Rights and Back to
Opportunities (.htm) January 26, 2005
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Outcomes for Head Start as Related to ROMA Goals.
October, 2004.
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Poverty
Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in
Twentieth-Century U.S. History
by Alice O’ Conner. Book review by Jim Masters, January, 2005.
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Common
Intake Forms and Other Efforts at Service Coordination and
Integration
by Jim Masters, Sept
10, 2004
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Ending
Poverty by Muhammad Yunus. April, 2004.
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Human
Services Futures: A Strategic Vision by Jim Masters.
1986.
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Background Information About Work and Income by Jim
Masters
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What is Work?
What Can Nonprofits Do? By Jim Masters
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship, By Peter Drucker. 1985
Harper and Row.
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Years of Poverty, Years
of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers
and Families, University of Michigan, 1984, Greg J.
Duncan. $14.50 in paperback.
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The
Capitalist Revolution, by Peter L. Berger, Basic
Books, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Excerpts from pages 58-68.
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An Overview of
Continuous Quality Improvement by John Johnston and Jim
Masters. February, 2003.
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APHSA American Public
Human Services Association: Reflections of 75 Years of
Excellence in Public Human Services, interviews with
Barbara Blum and Jule Sugarman by Jim Masters.
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Use
Your Meeting Planning to Help Keep Your Field Vibrant and
Growing, by Jim Masters.
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Return to Original
Mission: The Self-Sufficiency Imperative for Community Action
Agencies, written by Karl S. Pnazek, CAA Director at CAP
Services in Wisconsin.
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When There Is a LOT of New Money, by Jim
Masters.
 March
25, 2009.
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Smart Spending: CSBG Stimulus Money, by Jim
Masters.April
2, 2009.
 OEO
and CSA Instructions
in PDF format
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OEO Instruction 7850-1 earlier version of the Standards
of Effectiveness, May 1969
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OEO Instruction 7501-1 Roles of the State Economic
Opportunity Offices, March 1970
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OEO Instruction 6001-01 Means of Carrying Out a
Community Action Program, May 1971
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OEO Instruction 6001-03 Characteristics of Eligible
Activities, May 1971
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Standards of Effectiveness CSA Instruction 7850-1a July
1975 (the middle years)
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OEO Instruction 6320-1 The Mission of a CAA by Don
Rumsfeld, November 1970
Click
here for a complete list of our
publications, and the order form for publications and
software.
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