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Opinion Papers and Book Reviews by
Jim Masters
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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).
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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.
Jim Masters
Center for Community Futures
P.O. Box 5309
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-339-3801
Masters' Circle of Strength
Use this instead of Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs
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