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Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Community Services Block Grant

 

 
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  3. CSBG PROGRAM STATISTICS AND OTHER DATA
   
   
  3a. HIGHLIGHTS 1997  
 

  • 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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