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Volunteers in Service to America (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Poverty-related organizations based in the United States" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
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 ...
Poverty-related organizations based in the United States (4 C, 62 P) S. Social welfare charities (10 C, 83 P) Pages in category "Poverty-related organizations"
American advocates of poverty reduction, sets of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization which attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City. The organization also administers a relief fund for disasters in the New York City area. In 2010, a key supporter gave every family with children on welfare in New York State $200 to buy school supplies. [6]
Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) recruits, selects, trains, and refers volunteers to state or local agencies or private nonprofit organizations to perform duties to combat poverty. [ 13 ] The legislation also authorized the Economic Opportunity Council, which led to the launch of smaller independent groups that worked with communities ...
AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. President John F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA, which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. [1] VISTA is an acronym for Volunteers in Service to America.