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Opinion Papers and Book Reviews by
Jim Masters
Click on the links below to access the review in Microsoft Word
format.
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OEO Instruction
6320-1: The Mission of the Community Action Agency. November 16, 1970,
signed by Donald Rumsfeld. (Referenced by David Bradley in his July, 2005
article in the NASCSP Newsletter).
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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.
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Let's
Get More Clear about Managing the Amount of Social Control. By Jim
Masters, September, 2004.
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Why
Comparing the War on Poverty with Welfare Reform Won’t Work.
By Jim Masters, updated August 16, 2005.
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Rebuilding
the Program Development Function: Stop "Waiting for Godot!"
By Jim Masters, April 13, 2005.
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How
to Guarantee Pensions for Poor People – Just Like the Private Sector Does
It. By Jim Masters
September,
2005
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Welfare
Reform? We're Still Waiting! By Jim Masters, August 2004.
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Why
Some Historic Anti Poverty Strategies No Longer Work.
By Jim Masters, August 2005.
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(Re-)Defining
and Measuring Poverty:
Challenges and
Opportunities.
By Jim Masters and Teresa Wickstrom, July 21, 2004.
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Symbiosis:
Symbiotic Relationships. By Jim Masters, February 2005.
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Want to Get People out
of Poverty? Replace Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with
Masters
Circles of Strength. July, 2004. (See below)
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The
Current Era. Where America is today. February 27, 2004.
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Stop
Calling Them Clients! Eliminate the use of obsolete terms. August
6, 2004.
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Thoughts
on Leadership and Succession Planning. Where we are. April, 2004.
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Social Values and Public Policy: From Opportunities to Rights and Back to
Opportunities
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Outcomes
for Head Start as Related to ROMA Goals. Or -- 20 Building Blocks for
Successful Planning in Head Start. By Jim Masters, October 19, 2004.
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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.
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Common
Intake Forms and Other Efforts at Service Coordination and Integration
by
Jim Masters, Sept. 10, 2004
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Ending
Poverty by Muhammad Yunus.
Reduce
World Poverty by 50% by the year 2015?
Seems like an impossible goal, but when you hear Muhammad Yunus, founder
of the Grameen Bank, talk about it – you believe him. Professor Yunus came to
Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California on April 8th and
gave a lecture as part of their “Globalization from Below” lecture series.
See
http://www.scu.edu/ or
http://www.scu.edu/events/?sched=2727&fuseaction=event
Jim Masters attended this event, and filed this report.
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Human Services
Futures: A Strategic Vision by Jim Masters. This was written about 1986. It
has done a pretty good job of standing up to the 'test of time.'
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Background Information About
Work and Income by Jim Masters
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What is Work? What Can
Nonprofits Do? By Jim Masters
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Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, By Peter Drucker. 1985 Harper and Row.
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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.
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The Capitalist
Revolution, by Peter L. Berger, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1986.
Excerpts from pages 58-68.
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AN OVERVIEW OF CONTINUOUS
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT by John Johnston and Jim Masters.
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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.
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Use
Your Meeting Planning to Help Keep Your Field Vibrant and Growing,
by Jim Masters.
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Return
to Original Mission: The Self-Sufficiency Imperative for Community
Action Agencies, written by Karl S. Pnazek, CAA Director at CAP
Services in Wisconsin.
Jim Masters
Center for Community Futures
P.O. Box 5309
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-339-3801
Masters' Circle of Strength
Use this instead of Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs
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