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Federal
Funding for Early Childhood Supports and Services: A Guide to Sources
and Strategies by Hansine Fisher with Carol Cohen and
Margaret Flynn (June 2000)
This
guide to federal funding sources is designed to help policymakers,
program leaders, system-building advocates and others take advantage of
federal funding opportunities. It identifies and summarizes nearly
60 federal programs that have the potential to support initiatives
serving young children and their families, provides information on the
structure and amount of federal funding available from these sources,
and presents strategies for maximizing federal revenues. (Available
in PDF file format; requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
Finding
Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Out-of-School Time and Community
School Initiatives by Nancy Reder (April 2000)
Introduction
and Strategies
Catalog
of Federal Funds
Appendices
This
guide to federal funding sources is designed to help policymakers,
program leaders, system-building advocates and others take advantage of
federal funding options. It identifies and summarizes over 120
federal programs that have the potential to support out-of-school time
and community school initiatives, provides information on the structure
and amount of federal funding available from these sources, and presents
strategies for maximizing federal revenues and using these revenues to
create more flexible funding. (Available in PDF file format;
requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
- Financing
Family Resource Centers: A Guide to Funding Sources and Strategies
by Sara Watson and Miriam Westheimer (April 2000)
This guide is intended to help those who run family resource centers
-- and those who fund them -- make well-informed, strategic decisions
about financing. The guide describes the characteristics of
family resource centers, principles and strategies for financing them,
and current financing sources. It also discusses potential
reforms for improving the financing environment. (Available in
PDF file format;
requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
Financing
Services for Young Children and Their Families (June
1998)
- This report organizes and summarizes the themes and
issues that emerged from Roundtable discussions composed of national
experts and state and community leaders about the state of knowledge and
information on financing issues critical to the success of reform
efforts. This paper also presents a series of concrete suggestions for
new research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance tools
that would provide the knowledge and resources that states and
communities require to stimulate and support reform efforts.
Financing
Services for Young Children and Their Families: Meeting the Challenges
of Welfare Reform by Cheryl D. Hayes (March
1997)
- This paper examines strategies for state and local
leaders to finance supports and services for young children and their
families in the wake of welfare reform. It responds to the critical need
of policy makers to support our most vulnerable and youngest populations
in a time of increasing demands for services, a shifting tax base,
devolution of authority, and reductions in federal aid. The strategies
for revenue reform and for creating public/private partnerships
presented in this paper attempt to arm decision makers with current and
relevant information on a variety of effective tools that can be used to
support young children and their families in the current
environment.
- Federal Tax Reform: A Family
Perspective by Michael J. McIntyre and C. Eugene Steuerle
(July 1996) Narrative Summary,
Table of Contents,
Executive
Summary, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4
(Tables and Figures forthcoming)
- This report provides a sound and credible baseline for
weighing the merits of alternative federal income tax reform strategies
and for shaping future tax policies that will achieve greater
simplification and fairness while protecting the economic well-being of
families raising children. It examines three major proposals—The Flat
Tax, proposed by Rep. Dick Armey, Sen. Richard Shelby, and Sen. Larry
Craig; The USA Tax, proposed by Sen. Sam Nunn, Sen. Pete Domenici, and
Sen. Bob Kerrey; and The 10-Percent Tax, proposed by Rep. Richard
Gephardt—and provides a politically neutral assessment of the likely
effects of these proposed strategies for federal tax reform on families
raising children. It describes how each would change specific provisions
of current federal tax policy that have direct effects on families with
children. And it highlights the implications of their treatment of
investment income for families with children and those without children.
It reports the results of simulations of the effects on family tax
burdens of shifting to a flat tax by comparing equal-revenue versions of
the Armey-Shelby flat tax plan and the current law. Finally, the report
also suggests how current law and the reform proposals could be
modified—without necessarily changing their basic character—to provide
greater benefits to families with dependent children.
The Budget
Enforcement Act: Implications for Children and Families
by Karen Baehler (November 1995)
- This paper provides a brief overview of the federal
budget process, examining the effect of the Budget Enforcement Act on
legislative strategy and appropriations for children's programs. It
concludes with an investigation of how the Budget Enforcement Act's
rules may interact with Congressional proposals that affect children,
using examples from the 104th Congress.
Rethinking
Block Grants: Toward Improved Intergovernmental Financing for Education
and Other Children's Services by Cheryl D. Hayes,
with assistance from Anna E. Danegger (April 1995)
- This paper reviews the experience and lessons from the
Reagan block grants for the 1980s. It highlights the similarities and
differences between those programs and recent block grant proposals. And
it presents a number of suggestions for designing social welfare block
grants to effectively and equitably address the needs of the nation's
children, families, and communities.
- Reform
Options for the Intergovernmental Funding System: Decategorization
Policy Issues by Sid Gardner (December
1994)
- Without changes in current financing strategies, it
will be difficult to successfully implement more comprehensive
initiatives that link education and other children's services and
strengthen community support systems outside the mainstream of
categorical services. This paper presents a historical view of
categorical funding for services to children and families. It explores
options for policy and financing reform—in particular, for
decategorization with increased accountability. And it raises many of
the fundamental issues that decision makers at all levels will have to
address in their efforts to achieve better results for America's
children and families.
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