CSBG Funding Pipeline Has Dried Up During CR

I’m getting calls from a number of state Community Action Partnerships who haven’t received first quarter Community Services Block Grant dollars during the continuing resolution. With some stimulus dollars still not out, the Community Action pipeline is extremely dry and layoffs loom.

With all the CSBG funding that has been appropriated, this should be a time when CAPs are able to meet the growing needs in their communities. It is unacceptable that, instead, they are seeing layoffs on the horizon.

We are on top of it. I have talked to the Department of Health and Human Services. And, this afternoon, I will begin talking to congressional members and leadership to try to find out what the hold up is.

I will hopefully have a report on positive activity very soon.

-- David Bradley, NCAF Executive Director, Washington