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To subscribe, submit the form in the left column of this e-newsletter or visit www.nassembly.org. Newsbytes December 16 , 2005 Newsbytes is the biweekly E-newsletter of the National Human Services Assembly that contains information for and about the nonprofit health and human services sector. ASSEMBLY FEATURES Free Publications Available on Assembly's Website The National Assembly now offers a library of downloadable publications that were once available for purchase. The library includes reports, case studies, policy briefs and publications, all free for download in PDF format. To access this page, click here. For information about all the publications offered by the National Assembly, click here. National Assembly Announces Support for the CNCS Baby Boomer Campaign The National Assembly recently became an official supporter of the Corporation for National & Community Service's Baby Boomer Volunteer Campaign. Supporters of this campaign recognize the importance of harnessing the power and passion of America’s 77 million baby boomers. The campaign’s goal is to increase the number of boomers engaged in community service. It drives viewers to a new website, www.getinvolved.gov and toll-free hotline, 1-800-424-8867, where they can search by zip code and interest area for local volunteer opportunities that best suit their needs, experience and lifestyle. For more information about this campaign, click here or visit www.nationalservice.gov.
THE BLACK BOOK - Standards of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Voluntary Health and Welfare Organizations, This fourth edition of Standards was prepared to continue the mission of the previous editions - to attain uniform accounting and external financial reporting in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles by all voluntary health and welfare organizations. It is an excellent tool for management and financial officers in nonprofit human service organizations. (1998, 144 pages) SALE PRICE: $25.00 For more information about this publication, please click here. Download Order Form (PDF)
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High Home Heating Costs Could Endanger Low-Income Americans Doctors are warning that this winter’s projected home heating costs will average $1,078 for families who use natural gas heat and could endanger the lives of millions of low-income families across America. The American College of Emergency Physicians said in November that when home heating costs rise to unaffordable levels, families take steps to attempt to stay warm more cheaply, such as sealing off windows with plastic, running space heaters, and using ovens and stoves in an attempt to heat their homes. These alternative attempts to keep homes warm can create fire hazards and cause dramatic increases in carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations indoors, leading to headaches, fatigue, disorientation, coma, and in many cases, death. For more information on carbon monoxide poisoning, click here. [Source: Alliance for Healthy Homes] Red Cross Reaches Out to Minorities American Red Cross recently began an aggressive campaign to recruit minorities into its volunteer network, the Washington Post reported on December 5, 2005. In recent weeks the organization has launched various initiatives designed to increase the diversity of its overall staff and to attract more minority volunteers and translators. For more information, click here. To read the Washington Post article, click here. [Source: Foundation Center] Nonprofits Can Improve Corporations' Community Development Efforts, Study Finds By influencing such core operating activities as human resources, marketing, and purchasing, grantmakers and nonprofit organizations can improve lives substantially more than through tapping a corporation's philanthropic resources alone, a report from the Ford Foundation finds. Part of the Solution: Leveraging Business and Markets for Low-Income People, released in December, shares lessons learned from the foundation's corporate involvement initiative, an eight-year effort to explore how corporations and nonprofits can collaborate to improve low-income communities while also boosting the corporate bottom line. For more information, click here. To view the report, click here. Study Explores Relationship Between Outcomes and Afterschool Programs The Massachusetts Afterschool Research Study was a statewide study examining the links between afterschool program quality and student outcomes, and the efficacy of various models of afterschool for youth. The study was conducted by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women and the Intercultural Center for Research in Education, with sponsorship from the local United Way. The three-year study's findings reinforce a number of common program design choices. For more information, click here. To download the report, click here. [Source: Afterschool Alliance] Cancer Survivors Top 10 Million A new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) outlines how the nation can provide better follow-up care for cancer survivors, a force that is now 10 million strong and growing rapidly. In its recent report, From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition, the IOM makes 10 specific recommendations for changing the way the US health care system addresses the long-term consequences of cancer and its treatments. For more information and to read the report, click here. [Source: American Cancer Society] New Website on Juvenile Justice Issues The National Juvenile Justice Network has just launched a new website with state-by-state juvenile justice information, contact information for state-level reform coalitions, background on juvenile justice issues, and summaries of recent juvenile justice reform successes. It also provides information on how to take action on hot topic juvenile justice issues on both the state and federal levels. For more information, click here. Senate Passes Bill to Create Interagency Aging Council The U.S. Senate on November 17 passed legislation by unanimous consent to create an Interagency Council on Meeting the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors (S. 705). The Council is intended to help overcome the program and funding fragmentation that exists in federal and state legislatures and agencies in senior housing, health care, and community services by providing coordination between these entities for the growing population of seniors in the United States. Companion legislation, H.R. 3859, was introduced on September 22. For the text of this legislation, go to http://thomas.loc.gov. (Source: Volunteers of America) Hearing Reviews Charities’ Response to Hurricane Katrina The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing on December 13 to review the activities of charitable organizations, the coordination of their relief efforts, and the lessons they learned from Hurricane Katrina. Witnesses included representatives of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and other groups involved with the response to Katrina. For more information, click here. City Platform for Strengthening Families Released A Preliminary Evaluation of the Tax Reform Panel’s Report A new article from the co-directors of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center summarizes and offers a preliminary evaluation of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform’s final report. The tax reform panel’s plans would repeal the alternative minimum tax, cut back on existing deductions, credits, exclusions, and exemptions, and reduce the tax rate on capital income. The authors applaud the panel’s emphasis on tax simplification, but criticize its assumed 10-year baseline that makes the revenue, distribution, and growth implications of the proposal appear much more favorable than they would be relative to a current-law baseline. For more information, click here. Policy Brief: States Have Fewer Funds for Child Care Assistance A policy brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) finds that state spending on child care assistance declined in 2004 for the first time since the passage of welfare reform in 1996. Child care assistance helps low-income families find and retain the jobs they need to support their families. The policy brief examines national expenditure data for the Child Care and Development Block Grant and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). For more information, click here.
2006 Healthy Lifestyles Grants A special issue on youth and leisure is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2008.
Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service Grants The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, through the support of the Corporation for National and Community Service, is offering Building the Beloved Community Grants The goal of the MLK Day of Service Grants is to honor the memory of Dr. King through service. The award amounts will be divided as follows: 5 awards at $1,000; 20 awards at $2,500; 5 awards at $5,000 and 1 award at $10,000. For more information, visit http://www.pointsoflight.org/programs/seasons/mlkd/. FASTEN’s 2006 Partners in Transformation Contest Launched The 2006 Partners in Transformation competition will focus especially on three categories of service whose need has been highlighted through the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes: Emergency Disaster Response (short-term relief efforts); Community Recovery/Rebuilding Efforts (long-term developmental efforts, e.g., jobs and housing); and Services Addressing Deep Pockets of Poverty. Eligible nonprofit or faithbased organizations are encouraged to apply if they partnered with an organization(s) outside the faith community to achieve positive, demonstrable results. For more information, click here. Food Stamp Outreach Grants for Community and Faith-Based Organizations USDA's Food and Nutrition Service plans to award at least $1 million in grants to public and private entities, nonprofit, community and faith-based organizations to improve awareness of USDA's Food Stamp Program for low-income households. The deadline is April 3, 2006. For more information, click here. UPCOMING PEER NETWORK MEETINGS NCY Washington Group Meeting NCY Program Group Meeting January 6, 2006 - Tucson, AZ. For more information, please contact pam@nassembly.org Smaller Organizations Council January 10, 2006, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM. For more information, please contact ellen@nassembly.org NOVN Monthly Conference Call NCY Research Group Meeting CFO Peer Group Meeting CFO Peer Group Meeting October 18, 2006, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. For more information, please contact irv@nassembly.org. PEER NETWORK RESOURCES Communications Peer Network Webpage Chief Operating Officers Peer Network Webpage National Organizations Volunteer Network (NOVN) Webpage CONFERENCE, TRAININGS & EVENTS TRAININGS & EVENTS Seasonal Depression Awareness Month December is Seasonal Depression Awareness Month. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is offering information and resources about seasonal affective disorder among the special monthly features on SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center Web site. Visit http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov . Friends of National Service Reception Sponsored by Voices for National Service February 7, 2006 Washington, DC CONFERENCES Building on Success: Providing Today's Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow Presented by the Federal Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention January 9-13, 2006 Washington, DC National Network for Youth Symposium 2006 Express Their Needs, Your Strengths, Our Solutions February 5-8, 2006 Washington, DC Points of Light Youth Leadership Institute Training Seminar February 15-17, 2006 Orlando, Florida A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base Presented by Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health February 22-24, 2006 National Conference - Child Welfare League of America Securing Brighter Futures February 27 - March 1, 2006 Marriott Wardman Park Washington, DC 2006 National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) Annual Policy Conference and Lobby Day & 24th Annual Housing Leadership Awards Reception Capital Hilton Washington, DC February 27-28, Nonprofit Excellence: It's a Matter of Education March 22-24, 2006 Notre Dame, IN 11th Annual Family Support America Conference “Unify Now: Never Before Has Family Support Been Needed So Much” March 26-29, 2006 Hilton Chicago Downtown Girls Incorporated 56th National Conference Adolescent Brain Development and Juvenile Justice Presented by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice May 3-7, 2006 Hyatt Regency Bethesda 2006 Juvenile Justice National Symposium Building Successful Alliances to Improve Outcomes Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport San Francisco, CA September 14, 2006 Washington, DC For more information, contact sara@nassembly.org CLICK HERE to post your organization's conference dates on the National Assembly's website; click on "Add Your Own Event," and follow the instructions. Got News? Please e-mail sara@nassembly.org
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