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The Dolores McCoy Villa I housing complex for homeless families was created in 2011 by the partnership between the Watts Labor Community Action Committee and Affordable Housing CDC Inc. The project was funded by a $3 million loan by the PSP Lending Program and the California Community Reinvestment Fund.
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 ...
Community Housing Partnership is a nonprofit organization in San Francisco, California, that provides housing, job training and other services to people formerly living in homelessness. Founded in 1990, it owns and operates 14 residential buildings and collaborates with other organizations in its goals.
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) is a grassroots organization based in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California.Founded in 1999, LACAN works to organize low-income and homeless residents through advocacy, community organizing, litigation and education.
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides federal funding for Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and other programs that seek to address poverty at the community level. Like other block grants, CSBG funds are allocated to the states and other jurisdictions (including tribes, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and ...
Partnership HealthPlan of California, is an independent, public/private organization serving over 950,000 Medi-Cal beneficiaries in 24 northern California counties: Butte County, Colusa County, Del Norte County, Humboldt County, Glenn County, Lake County, Lassen County, Marin County, Mendocino County, Modoc County, Napa County, Nevada County, Placer County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Sierra ...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (or simply the Partnership) is one of the 28 National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act.The Partnership is a non-regulatory federal-state-local collaboration working to restore water quality and manage the natural resources of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuary.
The school board motion was made by board member and community activist Ethel Manheimer. [3] In November 1984, all the city council members up for election who had voted against the policy lost reelection. Progressives from the Berkeley Citizens' Action (BCA) slate who replaced them had voiced strong support for a domestic partner policy.