[Dialogue] five surprising facts about starvation that couldchange the i...

[Bill Schlesinger]

At the risk of sounding facile, it isn't that hard to fund comprehensive
community development (of course, there is no such thing in an abstract
sense), because the funding is based on community priorities and strategies
linked with a variety of resources in the wider society.  Specifically, in
the USA context, we've been able to fund economic development (banks and
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)), housing, (HOME, Low Income
Housing Tax Credits, CDBG, Federal Home Loan Bank), education (Child Care
Block Grant, Presbyterian Women's Birthday Offering for start-up), health
care (Maternal and Child Health Community Integrated Service Systems, CDBG,
federal Community Health Center, state primary care funds, Hogg Foundation
for Mental Health to integrate behavioral and primary care, Medicaid, CHIP,
Medicare), Afterschool activities (Criminal Justice funds), transitional
living center for homeless families from Emergency Shelter Grant and other
program support from United Way of El Paso, churches and individuals.  The
core group here has become staff; folks who started as clients and
volunteers, then became AmeriCorps or VISTA Volunteers. 

 

I've become convinced that the old 'cadre' model works; Margaret Mead's
quote is correct, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has".

 

Bill Schlesinger
Project Vida
3607 Rivera Ave
El Paso, TX 79905
(915) 533-7057 x 207
(915) 490-6148 mobile
(915) 533-7158 fax
pvida at sbcglobal.net

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I saw a program on PBS -- showed a guy in Bangladesh who has 1200
communities doing local economic development, has a local woman trained who
runs a clinic and provides all the medical care in each town.  He started
this work about the time we tried to do the HDPs  I was most heartened to
see this work.  He also has created a central bank and does micro loans into
the 1200 communities.  Maybe the group is called something like BANC.
(Bangla desh . . . . .)  They do have a website that I looked at last month,
but I lost the name.

Cynthia

 

 In a message dated 5/24/2006 11:14:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jfwiegel at yahoo.com writes:

I would say we have been working on it in the ICA office in Phoenix.  We
have not found out how to come up with a core group that can last, and
actually managing integrated development is conceptually and actually
complicated, and seems not easy to fund or sustain.

 

ICA in Kenya and Zimbabwe and 6 other african nations are demonstrating some
effectiveness with HIV / AIDS prevention through a kind of integrated
approach.



Dancing is to walking as singing is to talking. Simon Frith

If I could tell you what I mean, there would be no point in dancing. Isadora
Duncan

Jim Wiegel
401 North Beverly Way Tolleson, Arizona 85353
+1 623-936-8671 jfwiegel at yahoo.com

 

Cynthia N. Vance
Strategics International Inc.
8245 SW 116 Terrace
Miami, Florida, 33156
305-378-1327; fax 305-378-9178
http://members.aol.com/facilitationfla

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