Northwest Area Foundation Poll Data
As always, the latest official poverty and unemployment reports, compelling as they are, provide an incomplete view of both the challenges and possibilities we face. I’m writing to you today because the Northwest Area Foundation recently sponsored a national poll that reveals how the hardships of the recession are playing out in American households. Here are a few highlights:
- 61% say they’ve cut back on spending.
- 24% have had a friend or family member stay with them due to lack of funds.
- Nearly half (49%) say they don’t know where to turn in their community for help.
- 32% have had trouble affording medical care.
- 51% say the government is doing too little to help.
- Most say elected officials have responsibility for: attracting and keeping businesses that offer good-paying jobs, increasing access to affordable health care; affordable post-secondary education; and housing security.
- A majority said they are willing to volunteer, and over half said they would be willing to pay $50 more in taxes, to help reduce the number of people struggling to make ends meet within their communities.
These national findings are complemented by state-level data for each of the eight states served by the Northwest Area Foundation: Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The poll, designed and administered by Lake Research Partners, provides advocates and nonprofit organizations with data they can use in their work within communities, as they approach policymakers, and as they work with the media. We’ve also assembled communications tools to make it easier for organizations to incorporate this information into their work.
I invite you to take a look and to share this information freely with peers and the organizations you support. You can find all the material at http://www.nwaf.org/content/SurveyIntro.
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BIENNIAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Charting The Course: Moving Forward in Challenging Times
The Loft at the Red Building
No. 20 Basin Street
Astoria, Oregon
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October 13-15th 2010
- $295 First Member
- $275 Additional Members
- $395 Non-members
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Connecting the Dots: Health, Housing, and the Community Context
Presented by: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, The Seattle Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners and The Bullitt Foundation
September 14, 2010
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
American Lung Association in Washington
2625 Third Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
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JeFF Meeting
JeFF is a learning community of funders located in Lake, Klamath, Josephine, Jackson, Curry, Coos and Douglas Counties
Hunger and the Food System
Thursday, September 16, 2010
9:00 - 11:30 am
RCC Campus in Grants Pass unless otherwise noted
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Sponsored by Rogue Community College and Gordon Elwood Foundation
THIRD THURSDAY
Communications Technology: Learning to Fish in the Millennium Age
Thursday, September 16, 2010
11:45 - 1:30 pm
Northwest Health Foundation, Bamboo Room
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland, OR 97209
*Lunch provided
$15 members, $35 non-members
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SPECIAL PROGRAM
Sponsored by: Early Childhood Funders Learning Circle, Children's Institute, Chalkboard Project, and Literary Arts
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Oregon asks: What would it take?
Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes, Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem and America
Join your friends, colleagues and civic leaders for sixty minutes of inspiration grounded in the realities of what it takes to break the cycle of poverty, increase school success and build healthy communities.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Governor Hotel
Portland, OR
Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Presentation / Q&A at 12:00 p.m.
All seats are $25 (includes lunch)
Tickets available at https://oregoncf.org/connect/calendar/events/paul-tough-speech
Book sale and signing following program.
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