GIST
Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce
An informal affinity group for grantmakers interested in poverty alleviation, income security and asset development
Recent Events
March 4, 2008 - Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit: Short-Term and Long-Term Possibilities
Agenda
Audio recording
March 3, 2008 - 5th Annual Budget Briefing for Grantmakers
Agenda
Speaker Presentations and Handouts:
February 28-March 1, 2007 - 4th Annual Budget Briefing for Grantmakers
Speaker Presentations:
November 29-30, 2006- The Implications of the 2006 Midterm Election Results: A Briefing for Grantmakers
Speaker Presentations:
July 26, 2006 - Briefing for Grantmakers
Speaker Presentations:
February 28-March 1, 2006 - 3rd Annual Budget Briefing for Grantmakers
November 2, 2005 - Annual Policy Briefing for GrantmakersSpeaker Presentations and Handouts:
- Bob Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities presentation
- Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs presentation
- Meizhu Lui, Executive Director, United for A Fair Economy presentation and handout
- Katherine McFate, The Ford Foundation and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change presentation only available in hard copy by request to Katherine.
- Patrick Brasette, Associate Program Director for Public Works, Demos presentation
- Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners presentation
November 2, 2005 - Special Dinner on the Policy Implications of Hurricane KatrinaSpeaker Presentations:
- Bob Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Robin McKinney, Director of Programs, East Harbor Community Development Corporation presentation
- Peter Orszag, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution presentation
- Jeff Zinsmeyer, Executive Director, Doorway to Dreams (D2D) Fund
- Ray Boshara, Director of the Asset Building Program, New America Foundation handout 1 handout 2
- Margaret Clancy, Project Director, Center for Social Development, Washington University presentation
September 28, 2005 - Conference Call on Taxpayer Bill of Rights: Measures to Limit State Expenditures
Audio Recording of the Conference Call
Speakers:
- Maura Policelli, State Policy Coordinator, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- John Corlett, Senior Fellow and Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, Center for Community Solutions
- Carol Hedges, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
Background Materials:
- TABOR Threats 2006
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' TABOR website
- TABOR Video, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- TABOR: A Proven Failure, Power Point Presentation by Carol Hedges
- A State of Decline: What a TABOR Would Mean for Ohio, by David Bradley and Iris J. Lav, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- TABOR: A Taxpayer Bill of Goods?, by John R. Corlett, Center for Community Solutions
- TABOR and Cuyahoga County: A Fiscal Impact Statement, by Shawn Brown and John R. Corlett, Center for Community Solutions
- TABOR cartoon
June 1, 2005 - Briefing for Grantmakers: Helping Low-Income Families Navigate Economic Risks
February 16, 2005 - Emergency Briefing for Grantmakers: The 2006 Budget and Social Security ReformMeeting Summary
Speaker Presentations:
- Bob Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Peter Gosselin, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times. Four-part series:
- Eileen Appelbaum, Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University
- Tamara Draut, Director of the Economic Opportunity Program, Demos
- Jared Bernstein, Director of the Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute
- Vicky Lovell, Study Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Speaker Presentations:
- Bob Greenstein, Founder and Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Eugene Steuerle, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute and Co-Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
- Joan Entmacher, Vice President and Director of Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center
- Jason Furman, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Maya Rockeymoore, Vice President, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and Former Staff Member, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Insurance
