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NASCSP 2013
Option One: Current CSBG IS Survey Section E Categories
The first option would be to connect all of a local agency’s funding sources that are reported in
Section F on the CSBG IS Survey to the CSBG funding through the current service categories.
The current categories would be maintained, but would require clearer definitions that include
the activities to be reported as well as guidance on how to categorize other Federal, state, local,
and private funding sources. The strengths to this approach would be the connection to the
categories that are clearly listed in the CSBG Statute (Sec. 676 b.1.A.) and the comparison ability
to analyze data across multiple years. The challenges with this approach include not adequately
capturing organizational investments and specifically ROMA activities including planning,
community needs assessments and evaluation. Also, categorization of an agency’s Federal,
State, local, and private funding using the CSBG service categories would not adequately
capture the use of those funds.
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