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(a) Program. The provision of federal funds and administrative direction to accomplish a prescribed set of objectives through the conduct of specific activities. Example: CSA's Community Food and Nutrition Program.

(b) Project. The implementation level of a program where resources are used to produce an end product that directly contributes to the objectives of the program. Example: The School Breakfast Expansion Campaign of the Milwaukee CAP.

(c) Limited Purpose Agency. An organization or agency funded under sections 221 or 222 of the Act to conduct a specific project or projects, rather than the broad spectrum of projects conducted by a CAA. Limited purpose agencies are not subject to the requirements for local government designation and comprehensive community representation applicable to CAA's.

(d) "Un-capped Area". An "uncapped" area is any geographical area not officially served by a community action agency. An area officially served by a CAA is that area designated by the local government and recognized as such by CSA.

(e) Catalytic Activity. According to the dictionary, a catalyst is "a person or thing acting as a stimulus in bringing about or hastening a result". In this rule, "catalytic activity" means an activity which, through a modest investment of CFNP staff time and money, sets in motion a process or series of events which results, for lowincome persons, in benefits that are far-reaching and whose value significantly exceeds the cost of the original investment [See Appendix A, for further clarification].

(f) Direct Service Delivery. One-onone activity (for example, outreach activity) whose purpose is to provide goods or services directly to lowincome individuals or families. The provision of services can be catalytic or non-catalytic activity. It is catalytic if it triggers a process that is carried forward by the individual, either on his own or with the assistance of groups or agencies other than the CFNP project. (See Appendix A, for additional clarification.)

(g) Advocacy. According to the dictionary, an advocate is "one who pleads the cause of another" or "defends or maintains a cause or proposal." In this rule, advocacy means a type of catalytic activity which is directed at institutions or at the general public on behalf of low-income individuals in order to insure that, in the area of food and nutrition, the views of such individuals are heard, their rights are observed, the benefits to which they are entitled are provided, and their needs are met (to the extent possible) by the institutions which have the ability or responsibility to meet those needs. Successful advocacy can bring about either institutional change (a change in a law, regulation, policy, procedure, behavior or attitude affecting the low-income population) or a mobilization of additional resources (whether they be dollars or inkind services) from public or private sources to support food and nutrition programs for the low-income population. (See Appendix A, for further clarification.)

(h) Monitoring. Monitoring is a variety of advocacy. To "monitor" is to "observe critically". To monitor a program operated by another federal or state agency means to observe critically that program; to gather relevant information about its operations in order to make sure that it is adhering to relevant statutes and regulations in its delivery of services to low-income families and individuals; and where there are problems, to bring them to the attention of the administering agency and to assist that agency in finding a solution. (See Appendix A, for further clarification.)

(i) Anti-hunger Coalition. An antihunger coalition is an alliance of various individuals, groups and organizations whose purpose is to serve as an advocate for the poor in addressing (1) a broad range of problems and issues in attempting to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among the poor or (2) a narrow range of such problems and issues (e.g., the operation of the WIC program) over a wide area (e.g., throughout a whole state). A coalition may include such groups as: Community Action Agencies, Community Food and Nutrition grantees, the poor (or

ence. Such forms can be supplied by your Regional Energy Coordinator.

(2) Total services. Enter the total numbers served for each of the eligible activities carried out by the project during the reporting period. (For example, a grantee operating a weatherization project component and a crisis intervention service would enter the total number of houses weatherized, e.g. 100, in the block (A) and the total number of clients served in the crisis intervention component in block (B) e.g. 20. If no other energy activities were carried out, no other numbers would appear in this horizontal row.)

Under Total Services you will find five categories of special populations to whom the services may have been provided. The categories are not mutually exclusive, so they may add up to more than the total services figure. If, for instance, a household served had residents that were both elderly and handicapped, that household would appear in both 1.A. and 1.C.

(3) Applicants on file. Report on the number of requests for services of each type accumulated by the project, but not yet served. (If, for example, the 100 houses weatherized this quarter were the first 100 to be done out of a total of 1000 requests, the applicants on file, but not yet served would remain at 900.)

(4) Activities planned next quarter. Estimate of services planned for the upcoming quarter in each of the eligible activity areas carried out by the grantee. (This figure should be a reasonable and realistic estimate of the planned activities for the subsequent quarter's effort, and should bear a logical relationship to the anticipated expenditures shown on CSA Form 315. For example, a grantee anticipating the addition of Title X workers during the next quarter might show a substantial increase in planned weatherization activities, while a grantee facing the onset of winter might plan that fewer units could be weatherized. In either case, the estimate of services planned should be as accurate as the current situation permits.)

(5) Section III: Financial information. Report on each category of funds expended during the reporting period by source of funds to carry out the

services shown in Section II. For example, if the weatherization of 100 houses is shown in Section II, the sources of funds for that activity should appear in the Section III column under weatherization. Suppose the total amount spent to weatherize those 100 houses was as follows:

$10,000 of Section 222(a)(12) money.
$10,000 in FmHA loans.
$5,000 of Title X labor.
$5,000 of CETA labor.
$1,000 HCD Title I.

$500 local United Fund contribution.

Each of these $ amounts should appear as an identified source of funds in the weatherization column of Section III, as shown below:

The final horizontal row on the page should be the total amount of funds contributed from all sources to carry out the activities reported above.

NOTE: There are many possible sources of Federal, State, local and private funds which have not been spelled out. However, use additional spaces provided in Section III to identify sources from which you have received funds other than those preprinted.

(6) Section IV: In kind contributions. Report non-monetary contributions used by the grantee in conducting its program during the quarterly reporting period. For example, if the funds expended on weatherization were supplemented by 500 man-hours of Project Mainstream labor, 50 donated storm doors, and free transportation of those storm doors to the jobsites, these in-kind contributions should be detailed as shown below.

Subpart 1061.50-Community Food and Nutrition Programs (CSA Instruction 6132-2a)

SOURCE: 45 FR 33789, May 20, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

§ 1061.50-1 Applicability.

This subpart is applicable to all grants and contracts and cooperative agreements funded under section 222(a)(1) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, when the assistance is administered by the Community Services Administration.

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§ 1061.50-3 Purpose of subpart.

This subpart sets forth CSA's policy for the Community Food and Nutrition Program (CFNP) authorized under section 222(a)(1) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended. It discusses the purposes and categories of activities, participant and applicant eligibility criteria, application procedures and reporting requirements. The Appendices provide additional information relating to the meaning of certain terms, general policy, rating and ranking criteria, and addresses and names of key contact persons for CSA Regional Offices and migrant conduits.

§ 1061.50-4 Introduction.

(a) Section 201(a)(1) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as amended states that the basic purpose of all Title II programs including the Community Food and Nutrition Program, is * to stimulate a better focusing of all available local, State, private and Federal resources upon the goal of enabling low-income families and lowincome individuals to become fully self-sufficient" (emphasis added). (b) This statement sums up CSA's historic mission which has been to serve as a stimulator or catalyst of activities conducted by other public and private institutions rather than as a provider of services in competition with these institutions. CSA's limited funds make it necessary, in any event, for CFNP projects to limit their involvement in non-catalytic direct service delivery and to function primarily as advocates and catalytic agents.

(c) A second important point made in the statement quoted above is that the catalytic activity of Title II programs, including the CFNP, should be directed to helping the poor escape the cycle of poverty. The relevance of the CFNP to this objective is underscored by a report entitled "Dietary Goals for the United States" (2nd Edition) issued in February 1978, by the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. According to the report, an inadequate diet is a

principal cause of six of the leading killer diseases-the six being diabetes, strokes and hypertension, heart disease, some cancers, arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis of the liver. An inadequate diet is also one of the factors which leads to unemployability and chronic dependence on public assistance programs. Hence the importance of a concentrated attack on the problem of malnutrition among the poor.

§ 1061.50-5 Policy.

(a) Section 222(a)(1) of the Economic Opportunity Act authorizes: “A program to be known as Community Food and Nutrition designed to provide, on an emergency basis, directly or by delegation of authority pursuant to the provisions of Title VI of this Act, financial assistance for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritional food-stuffs, and related services as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation or malnutrition among the poor. Such assistance may be provided by way of supplement to such other assistance as may be used to extend and broaden such programs to serve economically disadvantaged individuals and families where such services are not now provided."

(b) In its effort to "supplement and extend and broaden" other Federal food programs, the CFNP must not lose sight of the essentially catalytic nature of CSA's mission referred to in § 1061.50-4 of this subpart. Funds seed should be used primarily as money or in ways that have a multiplier effect, not for duplicative or longterm feeding programs. The emphasis on catalytic activity does not preclude the use of CFNP funds, in emergency situations, for the direct delivery of foodstuffs and related services (e.g., food vouchers or food boxes) so individual families within CSA poverty guidelines who are insufficiently

served or not served at all by other programs (see 1061.50-7(d)(4) below). Benefits received under the CFNP shall not be considered as income for purposes of determining eligibility for other federal programs.

(c) Each CFNP project will be expected to include advocacy as an essential and integral element of both

its design and implementation. While an applicant may select the program category (Access, Self-Help, Food Supply, Crisis Relief, and Nutrition and Consumer Education) which best meets the needs of the poor in the community served, the element of advocacy should always be a part of whatever category is selected. Advocacy efforts should focus upon articulating the views and needs of the poor to the public at large but, more particularly, to those institutions and organizations which have the ability or responsibility to serve the poor. Advocacy efforts should not only include speaking on behalf of the poor, but helping the poor to articulate their own needs and to participate in activities which are designed to assure that the benefits to which the poor are entitled are provided. Advocacy should be aimed at initiating new programs to benefit the poor as well as improving and expanding existing ones.

(d) All CFNP projects will be expected to conform to as many of the purposes of Title II programs as possible (listed below in § 1061.50-6 of this subpart). Subpart § 1067.4 of this chapter requires that each project contribute to the achievement of one or more purposes. CSA is requiring that CFNP grantees meet at least three general purposes and one specific purpose of Title II programs. Applicants are advised that the rating criteria (see Appendices B through F) include three of the six purposes.

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(3) Maximum Feasible Participation. Maximum feasible participation of the poor in the development and implementation of all projects designed to serve the poor;

(4) Mobilization of Resources. Broadened resource base of programs directed to the elimination of poverty so as to include all elements of the community able to influence the quality and quantity of services to the poor;

(5) Innovative Approaches. Greater use of new types of services and innovative approaches in attacking causes of poverty, so as to develop increasing. ly effective methods of employing re

sources;

(6) Maximum employment Opportunities. Employment of the poor, including opportunity for further occupational training and career development, in the programs and projects administered to serve the poor.

(b) The following are legislativelymandated purposes of the Community Food and Nutrition Program (Specific Standards of Effectiveness):

(1) Improvement in the nutritional status of the target population.

(2) Reduction in hunger among the target population.

§ 1061.50-7 Program categories.

The categories eligible for funding under the Community Food and Nutrition Program are described below and are listed in priority order.

(a) Access. Access activities are focused on the public sector and are aimed at improving the opportunities for low-income people to gain access to, and participate in, food and nutrition programs sponsored by the federal, state and local governments and at making sure that these programs operate effectively, efficiently and fairly. They also seek to involve the poor in shaping public policies which have an effect upon the nutritional status of the poor. Activities eligible for funding under the "access" category include, but are not limited to:

(1) The monitoring of programs conducted by other agencies and in particular monitoring the implementation by USDA and state and local governments of the Food Stamp Act of 1977,

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