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HUMAN RESOURCES - DIVISION OF ECONOblIC OPPORTUNITY TIO: 51C .0100 History Note: Filed as a Temporary Amendment Eff November 20, t985, fora Period of 73 Days to Expire on February 1, 1986; Statutory Authority G.-S. 143B-10; 143B-276; 143B-277; 143-323(d); Eff December I, 1983; Amended Eff March 1, 1989; February 1, I986; June 1, 1985; October 1, 1984. .0105 ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES Activities funded under this Subchapter may include only those projects which: (1) provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on the causes of poverty in the state's communities, or thole areas of the state's communities, where poverty is a particularly acute problem; (2) provide activities designed to assist low-income participants, including the elderly poor: (a) to secure and retain meaningful employment; (b) to attain an adequate education; (c) to oblain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (d) to m~:e better use of available income; (e) to obtain emergency assistance through loans or _.grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and fa_mJly needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) to remove obstacles and solve problems ~vhich block the achievement of self-snlEciency; (g) to achieve ~eater participation in the affairs of the commuNty; and (h) to mzke more effective use of other pro.ams related to the purposes of the CSBG; (3) provide, on an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and sen'ices, nutritious foodstuffs, and related sen,i.ces, as may be necessazy to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among the poor; (4) to coordinate and establish linkages between govern_mental &~.d other social sen'ices pro.ams to assure the effective delivery of such seN, ices to low-income individuals; and (5) to encourage thc use of entities in the private sector of the coxra'nunitsr il' efforts to eliminate poverty. (6) to assist unemployed and disadvantaged individuals throuoZa Commurdty Food and .Nutrition trutlatlVeS: (a) :o coordinate existing private and public food assistance resources, whenever such coordination is determined to be inadequate, to better ser,/e low-income populations; ~,b) :o c~ssi:: [ow-hmomc con'unurzities to identify potential spon~-ors of child nutrition prograzx~s and to izfitiate new pro,ams in underserved or unserved areas: ,,.nd (c) to develop innovative approaches at the state and local level to meet the nutrition needs of iow-income people. Histo~.' Note: Filed as a Temporary Amendment £ff August 24. 1987for a Period of 68 Days to Expire on November I, 1987; Filed as a Temporary Amendment Elf May 5. 19.5':for a Period of 120 Days to Expire on September I, 1987; Statutory Authority 143-323(d); 143B-10; 143£-2-6: I43B-277; 42 U.S.C. 990t-12; Elf December I, 1983; .4mended Eff November 1, /987. .0106 ELIGIBLE GRANT RECIPIENTS Eli~ble ~ant recipients for CSBG funds include: (1) community action agencies as del'reed in (2) of Rule .0104 of tt'ds Section; in any geo~aptzic area of a state not presently served by an eli~ble entity, the Governor may decide to serve such a new area by: (a) requesting an e:dsting efi~ble entity which is located mid provides services in an area contiguous to tlie new area to serve the new area; (b) ii' not existine elitfible entity is located and provides sen'ices in ,an area contiguous to the new area. requesting the eli~ble entity located closet to the area to be served or an existing eli~ble