Nov
24
2008
Poverty Task Forces: The Experience of 3 State Advocates
Posted by VACAP Archives at 11:58 AM Member News

Around the nation, the political profile of poverty and opportunity is rising. Already, 8 states have established poverty targets. The National Governors' Association recently award 10 states funding to host Governor's Summits on poverty. The list of states with poverty task forces is growing.
Poverty Task Force: The Experience of 3 State Advocates is an audio conference call designed for advocates to ask questions of their peers about lessons learned in establishing and working with a poverty task force.
The audio file of this conference is available here: (www.clasp.org) as an mp3/streaming audio file.