 A
special discount on a new book for all Community
Action Executives, Directors, staff, board
members and supporters!
Dear Colleague:
Here's a new book you won't want to miss! We're
offering Community Action At Work: TAP's
Thirty-Year War on Poverty, by Elizabeth
Brand, to community action agencies nationwide
at a special discount for those "in the trade".
This 158-page, 7" by
10" handbook of family and community development
tells about the unique and creative ways that
Total Action Against Poverty (TAP) has helped
thousands of families and individuals with a
"hand up and not a hand out", since 1965 in
Roanoke, Virginia.
The lessons we've
learned in that time can help you improve your
agency, your programs, staff performance, board
participation, and more!
Learn how TAP....
- started with a
dream and organized a regional agency with
broad community support;
- face political and
economic adversity and stuck to its mission;
- embraces diverse
sectors, uniting them toward the single
purpose of reducing poverty in a land of
plenty;
- nurtures and
develops initiatives that speak to real
needs;
- finds the
resources to accomplish goals;
- has grown into a
multi-program, $12 million dollar a year
agency with techniques that anyone can use;
- has parented over
half a dozen strong and vital agencies that
have grown into a statewide network of
concerned programming... and how you can
leverage your own programs into independence
and wider impact;
- has "tapped"
resources from unexpected sectors and
generated continuing political support.
What Readers And
Reviewers Have Said About Community Action At
Work!
"Community Action
at Work for once captures the magic of this
wonderful process called community action.
How fortunate we are that the first thirty
years of Total Action Against Poverty, long
considered one of the most effective local
agencies, has been shared. This is a book
that not only reaffirms the success and
purpose of the War on Poverty, but remindes
us all of the nobility of helping those most
in need. Thank heavens for TAP! Thank
heavens for America's War of Poverty!"
David Bradley of the National Community
Action Foundation
"This is a story
about working together as a community to
develop community solutions to fighting
poverty and rescuing countless lives, woman
and child and a belief in each individual's
ability to succeed if only given the
chance."
Senator Chuck Robb, Washington, D.C.
"Community Action
At Work is an inspiring tale. Grassroots
Americans prove that poverty can be
overcome, by ordinary people, using ordinary
means with extraordinary spirit."
Sargent Shriver, Washington, D.C.
No one has a better
personal insight into the workings of a
broad-based anti-poverty program than Cabell
Brand. This book is not only a good
historical description, but a responsible
guide to the future."
Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia
"TAP has educated
children, fed the homeless, integrated the
once-incarcerated back into society,
empowered the disadvantaged, leveraged
millions of dollars in federal economic
assistance, incubated small businesses,
initiated economic development and
neighborhood redelvelopment, attacked
sub-standard housing, all for the benefit of
those living and working in the Roanoke
Valley. And if this is not enough, they
intend to keep going. All agree that TAP is
now a model for grass-roots community action
agencies around the country."
Nelson Harris, The Roanoke Times
How to Buy Community
Action At Work
We want to share this
story with you. If you'll send us $15 per copy
(regularly $22.95), plus $4.00 for shipping and
handling, we'll send it out to you without
delay. For multiple copies you may deduct 15%
from the total per copy price, and shipping is
on us.
To order a copy,
simply mail a check for $19.00 to:
TAP
P.O. Box 2868
Roanoke, Virginia 24001-2868
Attention: Melody Blankenship
or e-mail:
melody.blankenship@taproanoke.org
with mailing instructions and a purchase
order number.
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