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  3. CSBG PROGRAM STATISTICS AND OTHER DATA
   
   
  3a. Highlights 1998  
 
  Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Information System (CSBG/IS) Statistical Report, FY 1998  
 
 

FY 1998 Resources
Forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico reported on the 1998 CSBG/IS Survey that:

  • The CSBG network was made up of 1,122 local elibible 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.
  • Nearly $505 million was expended from federal and state CSBG appropriations to support the core activities of the CSBG network. Of this, $489.7 million was from the federal Block Grant appropriation.
  • More than $5.6 billion of other federal, state, local, and private resources was mobilized and coordinated to combat the causes of poverty. This level represented small but real growth over recent years despite cuts in many federal programs.
  • The network's funding from all sources, therefore, totaled more than $6 billions.
  • Nearly $3.98 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 nearly 13,000 full-time employees.

FY 1998 Clients
The CSBG/IS provided data on CAA clients and their characteristics and indicated that the CSBG network may have served as many as 27 percent of Americans in poverty in 1998. In the 44 states reporting client data, the CAAs served:
  • 9.3 million low-income individuals
  • 3.3 million families including:
    • Nearly 1.3 million families with incomes below 75 percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline or below $10,238 for a family of three in 1998. This represented a record proportion of clients who were in extreme poverty.
    • Approximatley 1.6 million families with children
    • 1.8 million working poor or retired worker families
  • 3.5 million white, non-Hispanic clients
  • 1.8 million black, non-Hispanic clients
  • 1 million Hispanic clients
  • 2.8 million children participating in agency programs

FY 1998 Services
The CSBG network reported that its top three service priorities, as measured by expenditure levels of all coordinated resources, were:
  • Education, especially pre-school initiatives such as Head Start
  • Emergency services, from energy and housing crisis assistance to disaster relief
  • Housing assistance, such as affordable housing construction, homeownership support, and fair housing advocacy
The top three service priorities as measured by CSBG expenditures alone were:
  • Linkage programs
  • Emergency services
  • Self-sufficiency programs
 

 

 

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