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Issue #152, Winter 2007 |
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Issue #152, Winter 2007 |
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PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES“Payday Lenders Evade Regulations,”
a study conducted by the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC), reports that most borrowers working with homeownership counselors are advised to foreclose. CRC
surveyed 33 of California’s more than 80 mortgage-counseling agencies.
The results revealed that 57 percent of counselors reported foreclosure as the most common outcome for homeowners struggling to
pay their mortgages. www.nhi.org/go/reinvest One-in-five people in working families—nearly
41 million—are struggling to make ends meet, according to “Bridging the Gaps: A Picture
of How Work Supports Work for Working Families,” a study by
the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Center for Social
Policy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. While many workers
lack employment-based benefits such as health insurance and retirement
plans and earn too little to cover basic expenditures, they earn too
much to qualify for government-provided work supports such as Medicaid
and Food Stamps. www.nhi.org/go/bridgegaps The focus of the fall issue of Responsive Philanthropy
is “philanthropy at its best,” including philanthropic strategies
for community-led education reform, why foundations should support grass-roots
organizing, and whether foundations are responding to the needs of marginalized
communities. www.nhi.org/go/ncrp The Center for Community Change’s Taproots Project has called for papers on interdependence and community for a convening of activist-thinkers from the fields of community organizing, advocacy, media, and the academy to be held in Washington, D.C., April 16-18, 2008. Deadline for paper proposals or abstracts: Dec. 14. For topics and requirements, visit www.nhi.org/go/communitychange. AWARDS
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