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In 1964, the U.S. poverty rate (income-based) included 19 percent of Americans. Rising political forces demanded change. Under a new White House Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the concept of the federally-funded, local Community Action Program (CAP)—delivered by a local Community Action Agency (CAA), in a nationwide Community Action Network—would become the primary vehicle for a new ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan behavioral and social science research, evaluation, and technical assistance organization based in Arlington, Virginia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of the world's largest social science research organizations, [ 1 ] AIR has more than 1,800 staff in locations across the United States and ...
The health centers were intended to serve as a mechanism for community empowerment. Accordingly, federal funds for the clinics went directly to nonprofit, community-level organizations. [1] The health centers were designed and run with extensive community involvement to ensure that they remained responsive to community needs.
Action civics is a modern and alternative form of civics education in the United States. Action civics is an applied civic education process in which participants learn about government by examining issues in their own community and then select a focus issue for action through a process of debate, research the issue and learn advocacy strategies, develop civic skills such as public speaking ...
The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is an organization that provides a range of services based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children and adults on the autism spectrum. CARD was founded in 1990 by Doreen Granpeesheh. The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, acquired CARD in 2018.
Consumer Action is a nonprofit, consumer education and advocacy center, serving consumers in the United States. Founded in 1971, Consumer Action, as a 510(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It has offices in San Francisco , Washington, D.C. , and Los Angeles .
The “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” was hosted on Wednesday, Feb. 1, by Clemson’s chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) — a national non-profit that says its mission is to “identify ...
Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States are non-profit organizations in the US who have as one of their primary goals healthcare reform in the United States. These notable organizations address issues such as universal healthcare, national health insurance, and single-payer healthcare.