Category: Energy and Green Intiatives
Weatherization Plus Health: Bringing WAP and Lead Poisoning Prevention Under the Same Tent
-- Ryan Ward, Research Analyst, Health Homes Initiative, NASCSP -- With National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week upon us, it is important to note that Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) providers can play a critical role in decreasing the number of childhood lead poisonings year over year. There has been great success in reducing childhood lead poisoning since the ban on the sale of lead
READ MORENASCSP Celebrates Energy Award Win for Ohio Community Action Agency
-- By Alice Gaston, Program Assistant, Energy Services, NASCSP -- Nominated by NASCSP, the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development (COAD) won the Alliance to Save Energy’s (ASE) Andromeda Award for weatherizing the entire city of Murray City, Ohio. COAD accepted the award last week at ASE’s annual Evening with the Stars of Energy Efficiency Awards Dinner. COAD is a private,
READ MOREWx Plus Health: 2012 National Training in Philadelphia from Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2012
The Community Action network is a diverse one. There are multiple programs under a single agency’s roof that deal with everything from weatherization to health. Sometimes these programs operate like silos and do not strategically collaborate with one another to offer solutions for the whole home. This isn’t the most effective use of limited resources since many of these programs serve the
READ MOREOne Million Homes Weatherized!
By: Alice Gaston, Program Assistant, Weatherization Services NASCSP and the Community Action Partnership (CAP) are pleased to announce that September 27, 2012 marks the one millionth home weatherized under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) since April 2009! With the huge influx of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), WAP
Paying for What Works: NASC and the Center for American Progress Talk SIBs
-- Jovita Tolbert, Development Director of the National Alliance for Sustainable Communities (NASC) -- Implemented in the UK, the first Social Impact Bond (SIB) was launched by Social Finance in September 2010. Today, Massachusetts, New York, and Minnesota are experimenting with SIBs, or a variation of them. What’s more, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is working with the
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