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Office of Community Services -- Asset Building Strengthening Families...Building Communities

National Resources for Implementation: Cooperative Extension Services and SCORE

Focus:

This call offered information on two national networks with expertise useful to AFI Projects.

Key Points:
  • SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) is an independent nonprofit association of business people who provide training in small business development and on specific business topics.
    • SCORE, which is affiliated with the U. S. Small Business Administration, provides its services on-line via a Web site (www.score.org), through local chapter members, and through publications and technical assistance.
    • Services include one-on-one mentoring and coaching in person and on-line as well as classroom-based training, and a wide range of publications on general and specialized business topics.
    • SCORE resources are often available in many languages, and counselors from diverse cultural backgrounds are available in many areas of the country.
  • CSREES (Cooperative State Research, Extension and Education Services) is the formal name for the network of services implemented on a local level by the U.S. Department of Agriculture via staff based at 107 land-grant colleges and universities, including historically black institutions, tribal colleges, and institutions serving the territories ( www.csrees.usda.gov ).
    • Extension services are active in urban as well as rural areas.
    • Extension services work with many AFI Projects to provide financial education for participants, either with customized curricula or using curricula already developed by extension staff.
    • Extension services have become very active in supporting tax filing assistance, another area of common activity with AFI Projects.
    • Extension services also implement a number of local community development activities that may be coordinated with AFI or asset-building efforts.

     

Presenters:
  • James Gatz, Manager, Assets for Independence Program, Office of Community Services
  • Darlene Pollard, Director of Volunteers, SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), Washington, DC
  • Jim Terry, Program Analyst, Financial Security, Extension Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
  • Anne Yeoman, Assets for Independence Resource Center
Resources:
  • CSREES Personal Finance (.doc 340KB) (.pdf 30KB)
  • National Resources for Implementation: Cooperative Extension Services and SCORE (.doc 114KB) (.pdf 67KB)
  • Spending Game (.pdf 180KB)

For more information on this topic, please contact the Assets for Independence Resource Center: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/assetbuilding; info@idaresources.org; 1-866-778-6037.