Center for Community Futures
P.O. Box 5309
Berkeley, CA  94705
Phone:  510-339-3801
Fax: 510-339-3803

The Center for Community Futures helps you expand your capacity to accomplish what you could not accomplish before.

Welcome to www.cencomfut.com

Community Development Toolkit for Boards Head Start Social Values Poverty Work Search NCPES Agency Management Opinions by Jim Conference Planning Microbusiness Events Web Site Design Our People Order Form

bulletFor Video and Audio files from the National Symposium on Poverty and Economic Security (a part of the National Conversation on Poverty and Economic Security) held in Bethesda, MD May 29-31, 2007, please click here.

bulletAgencies in Santa Clara County: Please click this link for more information.

Events

bulletFamily Development and Case Management Summer Institutes for Head Start Programs. June 24-27, 2008. 

bulletHead Start Summer Institute for Management.  July 23-25, 2008. San Francisco.

bulletFamily Development and Case Management ONSITE TRAINING

bulletCommunity Leadership Training

bulletStrategic Planning Seminars for Local Head Start Programs at your site, by the Center for Community Futures (2007-2008)

Head Start

 
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Reauthorization. House of Representatives Reauthorization Bill (HR 1429, Improving Head Start Act of 2007); Senate Reauthorization Bill (S566, Head Start for School Readiness Act); and Comparison by Allen Stansbury.

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Policy Manager Two, software for managing the 10,615 federal regulations AND for managing policies, procedures, area plans, and more.

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Review READY! Workbook 2008 based on the FY 2008 Monitoring Protocol

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Policies On Diskette 2008

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Community Assessment: A How-To Guide for Local Head Start Programs. September, 2005. By Elizabeth W. Morris, Ph.D.

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Assessment of the Knowledge Skills of Family Workers

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Salary Survey Report of Local Head Start Programs 2006.

Plus, your chance to get individualized comparisons for your program.

 
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Summer Institutes 2007 - Family Development and Case Management Training

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Certificate in Basic Skills for Family Development Workers in Head Start. Basic Skills training based on the ACYF Information Memorandum IM-HS-01-08.

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Case Management for Head Start Programs
 The Handouts from the Summer Institutes

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Head Start Financial Policies and Procedures Kit.  Compare this Kit with the Fiscal Assistant!

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Self-Assessment and Quality Improvement Kits

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Head Start Recruitment!

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Parent Survey System

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Case Management and Family Development Training Needs Assessment

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Web site design and development for your Head Start program

Working to End Poverty

        Click here for the Table of Contents.

Click on a link to download these Word documents, or click here to view these Free documents from the Project to Develop a 21st Century Model to End Poverty:

1) SECTION 1 of Maximizing Personal Potential for National Prosperity: A blueprint for changing the way this country thinks about and addresses povertyThis is the summary, the first 41 pages of the original document.

2) The rest of the document: Maximizing Personal Potential for National Prosperity: A blueprint for changing the way this country thinks about and addresses povertyThis is a LARGE file, over 450 pages in Word, starting on page 42.

3) Reference Table of Federal programs addressing poverty (Excel) (consolidation of three tables included in #2 above)

Social Enterprise

1. Download the FREE file on Social Enterprise Development Process (MS Word)
2. Download the FREE Social Enterprise Manual and Tool Kit, in Word or PDF format.
3. Hire Jim to help out!
4. Order the Handouts from the Social Enterprise Conference, November 2002. $75.
5. Other resources
6. Get info for future conference 

Community Development

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Community Leadership

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Community Leadership Development Training April, 2005 in Knoxville, TN

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Eighteen Principles for Effective Leadership

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HOW TO START AND RUN Series:
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How to Start and Run a Bakery

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How to Start and Run a Farmer's Market

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How to Start and Run a Janitorial Business

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How to Start and Run a Local Currency Program

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How to Start and Run a Resale/Thrift Shop

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How to Start and Run a Secondary Wood Products Business

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How to Start and Run Lawn Care and Gardening

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How to Start and Run Sidewalk and Mall Vending/Carts and Kiosks

CAA Board Members Toolkit
Developed for Cal/Neva on an OCS contract.

Disasters and CAA

OCS hired us to look at how CAA's had been involved in several disasters that took place from the 1960's to 1994.  We interviewed 108 CAA's that had been involved in Hurricanes like Hugo, Iniki and Andrew, or that had helped on fires, floods, tornados and other calamities.  There have been a LOT of disasters over the years that resulted in an official Presidential Declaration.  The findings were shaped into 59 "lessons learned."   We have been delayed a few days in getting this up here because the report was produced in WordPerfect and we had to convert it to Word.  Download the free report by clicking here.

Opinion Papers and Book Reviews by Jim Masters

        Click on the links below to access the review in Microsoft Word format.

  1. OEO Instruction 6320-1: The Mission of the Community Action Agency. November 16, 1970, Donald Rumsfeld. (Referenced by David Bradley in his July, 2005 article in the NASCSP Newsletter).
  2. Plusses and Issues on automating most or all of the application process for transfer payments including LIHEAP, Food Stamps, SSI, TANF, etc. (Both Texas and California are working on this approach for TANF). By Jim Masters, updated August 17, 2005.  
  3. Let's Get More Clear about Managing the Amount of Social Control. By Jim Masters, September, 2004.
  4. Why Comparing the War on Poverty with Welfare Reform Won’t Work.  By Jim Masters, updated August 16, 2005.
  5. Rebuilding the Program Development Function: Stop "Waiting for Godot!"  By Jim Masters, April 13, 2005.
  6. How to Guarantee Pensions for Poor People – Just Like the Private Sector Does It. By Jim Masters,  September, 2005
  7. Welfare Reform?  We're Still Waiting! By Jim Masters, August 2004.
  8. Why Some Historic Anti Poverty Strategies No Longer Work. By Jim Masters, August 2005.

  9. (Re-)Defining and Measuring Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities. By Jim Masters and Teresa Wickstrom, July 21, 2004.

  10. Symbiosis: Symbiotic Relationships. By Jim Masters, February 2005.
  11. Want to Get People out of Poverty? Replace Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with Masters Circles of Strength. July, 2004.
  12. The Current Era. Where America is today.  February 27, 2004.
  13. Stop Calling Them Clients!  Eliminate the use of obsolete terms. August 6, 2004.
  14. Thoughts on Leadership and Succession Planning. Where we are. April, 2004.
  15. Social Values and Public Policy: From Opportunities to Rights and Back to Opportunities  January 26, 2005
  16. Outcomes for Head Start as Related to ROMA Goals. October, 2004.
  17. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History by Alice O’ Conner. Book review by Jim Masters, January, 2005.
  18. Common Intake Forms and Other Efforts at Service Coordination and Integration by Jim Masters, Sept 10, 2004  
  19. Ending Poverty by Muhammad Yunus. April, 2004.
  20. Human Services Futures: A Strategic Vision by Jim Masters. 1986.
  21. Background Information About Work and Income by Jim Masters
  22. What is Work? What Can Nonprofits Do? By Jim Masters
  23. Innovation and Entrepreneurship, By Peter Drucker. 1985 Harper and Row.
  24. Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families, University of Michigan, 1984, Greg J. Duncan. $14.50 in paperback. 
  25. The Capitalist Revolution, by Peter L. Berger, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Excerpts from pages 58-68.
  26. An Overview of Continuous Quality Improvement by John Johnston and Jim Masters. February, 2003.
  27. APHSA American Public Human Services Association:  Reflections of 75 Years of Excellence in Public Human Services, interviews with Barbara Blum and Jule Sugarman by Jim Masters.
  28. Use Your Meeting Planning to Help Keep Your Field Vibrant and Growing, by Jim Masters.
  29. Return to Original Mission:  The Self-Sufficiency Imperative for Community Action Agencies, written by Karl S. Pnazek, CAA Director at CAP Services in Wisconsin.

Conference Planning, Meeting Planning

bullet Meeting/Conference Planning Software: CAPERS  free demo!
bullet Conference/Meeting Planning Services
bulletUse Your Meeting Planning to Help Keep Your Field Vibrant and Growing paper

Web Site Design and Development

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We'll build your site: Web site design & development for nonprofits

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Or, build your own world-class, e-philanthropy website in just a few hours www.CharityFinders.com   

Agency Management

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Capacity Building and Training Needs Assessment

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Perceptions of Quality and Results for Community Action Agencies signup info in PDF

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The Administrative and Indirect Cost Workbook

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Case Management for CAA's

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CAA Salary Survey Report & Individualized CAA Salary Survey Reports

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CAA Disaster Planning and Relief Efforts

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Monitoring for Change 

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ROMA: Results Oriented Management and Accountability workbook free download!

Our People

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Jim Masters, Idea Generator

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Gail Reed, Office Manager

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Allen Stansbury, Senior Associate

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Teresa K. Wickstrom, Senior Associate/Webmaster

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Jeff Wickstrom, Technical Support

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Diane Meyerhoff, Microbusiness

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Current Projects

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Click here for a complete list of our publications, and the order form for publications and software.

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