Guest Post: SaveUSA: Giving Tulsans an incentive to save all year long

Karissa Coltman, SaveUSA Research Coordinator and Tax Program Operations Specialist, is our May guest blogger. In a tough economy where so many hard working families are barely making ends meet, it might seem strange to ask “What are you saving for?”.  Yet this is exactly the question asked of and answered by 702 families this [...]

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Oklahoma One of Three Worst States for Economic Mobility

As an anti-poverty agency, CAP’s ultimate vision is that the children we serve today move up the economic ladder so that when they are adults their children are not born into poverty.  But according to a new study by the Pew Economic Mobility Project, the headwinds facing Oklahomans are particularly strong. An interactive map shows [...]

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Goodbye Post

Last week, you read a welcome post from Valerie.  Today, you are reading a goodbye post from me (Elizabeth).  For the past two years, I have been your faithful (sometimes not so faithful) blogger from the Innovation Lab, but last week was my last week as a member of the Lab.  I am now a Strategic Planning and Organizational [...]

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Guest Post: What’s your strategy for building human capital?

As part of a new project at CAP, each month we will be featuring a guest blogger from across the agency.  Catheryn Mason, Director of Learning and Performance, is our seventh blogger. Non-profit organizations (NPOs) place a great deal of emphasis on amassing, developing, and effectively utilizing financial capital within their organizations. Fundraising, donor relations [...]

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Do Section 8 Recipients Work?

I must say that I really kind of love the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Off the Charts Blog.  They provide great information on a wide range of topics, but most importantly, they provide me the data to back up arguments I have with my friends about these same topics.  One of the ongoing [...]

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Hard Times Generation

Yesterday evening I was channel surfing before the football game started.  I ran across a 60 Minutes segment on child homelessness in Central Florida.  What struck me most was how matter of fact the children in the piece handled being homeless.  One said, “It’s life.”  That same teenager said that education was her way out of [...]

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Preview of New Poverty Data

Tomorrow the US Census Bureau will release data detailing poverty in America during 2010.  Most of us working in the field have a feeling that the data is not going to look good.  The continued effects of the recession such as a poor job market, the mortgage crisis, and cutbacks in state and federal funding [...]

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The Cost of Center-Based Child Care

Since I am not a parent, I sometimes forget how much it costs to send a child to center-based child care.  But, then I see the numbers and am blown away.  Last week I quickly posted about the Children Defense Fund’s latest report The State of America’s Children.  Since then I have been working my way through the extensive [...]

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

This post was written by Karen Kiely, COO. Direct the Rider, Motivate the Elephant and Shape the Path—how can these be the core elements to effecting lasting change?  In their highly acclaimed book, “Switch,” authors Chip and Dan Heath make a compelling case for how to bring about change, be it at the individual , [...]

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Election 2010

I love Fall! I love the weather, the color in the trees, sweaters, and college football. I also love Election Day! But, for some it can be stressful. I thought I would try to help make the process a little less stressful. The links below are to great election-related resources.  Oklahoma Policy Institute’s overview of [...]

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