Step Up Savannah

Communications Action Team Meeting

StepUp — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:32 +0000

The Step Up Communications Team Meeting is scheduled to meet 9a.m., May 15th at SEDA. For more information, please contact Betsy Yates at 912-819-8139.

Dependent Care Action Team Meeting

StepUp — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:17 +0000

The Step Up Dependent Care Action Team Meeting will be held Thursday, May 15th at 8:30am at the May street YMCA. For more information, you may contact Beth Parr at 912-236-4226.

Affordable Housing Team Meeting

StepUp — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:40 +0000

The Step Up Affordable Housing Team Meeting is scheduled to meet 8:30 - 10:30 a.m., May 13, at SDRA. Located at 518 MLK Blvd. For more information, please contact Donna Provence at (912) 401-0008.

“Tightening the belt on Georgia’s TANF Program: Doing more with less in FY 2008 and beyond”

StepUp — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:59:22 +0000

“This report tracks the federally funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) appropriations across the Department of Human Resources. As TANF caseloads have dropped, higher funding priority has been directed toward child welfare programs rather than child care, transportation, and job training programs that would directly help families achieve economic self-sufficiency. As the TANF budget faces federal funding shortfalls in the coming years, policy makers will have to decide between further reducing work assistance programs and/or making larger investments of state funds to critical child welfare programs.”

To read the full Georgia Budget and Policy Institute click here.

Transporation Action Team Meeting

StepUp — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:14 +0000

The Transportation Action Team Meeting will be held 10:30am-noon, Friday, May 9th. For more information, you may contact Lee Grimes at 912-447-9715.

What is the Nature of Poverty and Economic Hardship in the United States?

StepUp — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:43:39 +0000

Child poverty and family economic hardship: 10 important questions.

The National Center for Children in Poverty questions how poverty is measured, saying the federal guidelines designed in the 1960s are outdated. To read about the questions this group at Columbia University is posing, click here.

America’s Second Harvest says food drive ‘crucial’

StepUp — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:26:24 +0000

Virginia Williamson has gone to the Savannah Baptist Center for about 30 years for help with her grocery needs.

Williamson, 74, lives on a pension from her late husband and a small Social Security check and depends on the center to help keep food in the house.

But with food and fuel costs rising, the center and other food providers are finding their cupboards more bare than usual. To read the full story, click here.

Asset Building Action Team Meeting

StepUp — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:00:26 +0000

The Step Up Action team meeting will be held this Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the United Way Bldg. on Bull Street at 3pm.

Help for the working poor

StepUp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:03:14 +0000

For a variety of Savannah-area businesses, entry-level employees are key to overall operations.

“They’re critical to giving the patient the type of care they expect,” said Paul P. Hinchey, president and CEO of St. Joseph’s/Candler.

An overriding question for St. Joseph’s/Candler, other businesses and the employees themselves is how can they live on those wages.

StepUp Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative works to bring area businesses to the table to try to break the city’s chronic cycle of poverty.

To read the full article, click here

Poverty Simulation

StepUp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:00:40 +0000

Step Up will be having our next Poverty Simulation April 23, 2008. It is will be held 2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. in the Harborside Center of the Hyatt Hotel. To register, please contact the Step Up office at 912-644-6439. Please note that there is a limited amount of spots available during registration so sign up as quickly as possible. Thanks.