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- The CSBG network was made up of 1,138 local eligible entities, largely
Community Action Agencies, in 96 percent of the counties in the United
States. They used CSBG funding for their core operations and for developing
and coordinating programs to fight poverty.
- $476 million was expended from federal and state CSBG appropriations
to support the core activities of the CSBG network.
- More than $5.3 billion of federal, state, local and private resources
was mobilized and coordinated to combat the causes of poverty.
- Nearly $3.50 of state, local, and/or private contributions was leveraged
to match each CSBG dollar expended.
- Nearly 27 million hours of service were contributed by volunteers,
the equivalent of more than 12,000 full-time employees.
- The state block grant portion of the CSBG was $489.6 million for FY
1997.
- The network's funding from all other sources, federal, state, local
and private, was $4.8 billion.
FY 1997 Clients
The CSBG/IS provided reports on CAA clients and their characteristics
and indicated that the CSBG network may have served as many as 20
percent of Americans in poverty in 1997. In the 46 states reporting
client data, CAAs served:
- 9.2 million low-income individuals;
- 3.3 million families including:
- nearly 1.2 million families with incomes below 75 percent of the
Federal Poverty Guideline, or below $9,998 for a family of three in
1997;
- approximately 1.7 million families with children; and
- nearly 1.7 million working poor or retired worker families;
- 3.4 million white, non-Hispanic clients;
- 1.7 million black, non-Hispanic clients; and
- 960,000 Hispanic clients.
FY 1997 Services
The CSBG network reported that its top three
service priorities, as measured by expenditure levels of coordinated
resources, were:
- education, especially pre-school initiatives such as Head Start (35
percent);
- housing assistance, such as affordable housing construction and fair
housing advocacy (11 percent); and
- emergency services, from energy and housing crisis assistance
to disaster relief (10 percent).
The top four service priorities for CSBG expenditures
alone were:
linkage programs (20 percent);
emergency services (19 percent); and
nutrition and
self-sufficiency (12 percent each).
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