• W/SW IAF Victories 2021
  • HOME
    • HOME
    • Who We Are
    • How We Started
    • How We Organize
    • What We Do
  • Videos
  • Initiatives
    • Initiatives
    • Labor Market Intermediaries
    • Living Wages
    • Immigration
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Infrastructure
    • Healthcare
    • Family Finance
    • Alliance Schools
    • West/Southwest IAF Victories 2022
  • News
  • Readings
    • Readings
    • Ernesto Cortes, Jr.
    • West/Southwest
    • East Coast
    • Saul Alinsky & IAF Tradition
  • Train
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Subscribe
    • Affiliates
  • Careers
  • Support
  • COVID-19 Action
    • COVID-19 Action
    • COVID-19 Petition
    • Petición COVID-19
    • COVID-19 Seminars


  • W/SW IAF Victories 2021
  • HOME
    • HOME
    • Who We Are
    • How We Started
    • How We Organize
    • What We Do
  • Videos
  • Initiatives
    • Initiatives
    • Labor Market Intermediaries
    • Living Wages
    • Immigration
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Infrastructure
    • Healthcare
    • Family Finance
    • Alliance Schools
    • West/Southwest IAF Victories 2022
  • News
  • Readings
    • Readings
    • Ernesto Cortes, Jr.
    • West/Southwest
    • East Coast
    • Saul Alinsky & IAF Tradition
  • Train
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Subscribe
    • Affiliates
  • Careers
  • Support
  • COVID-19 Action
    • COVID-19 Action
    • COVID-19 Petition
    • Petición COVID-19
    • COVID-19 Seminars

Pages tagged "sales tax"


Valley Interfaith Saves $290K in Funding for VIDA Job Training

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · September 21, 2015 11:59 AM
When Valley Interfaith leaders learned that the Edinburg Economic Development Corp. (EDC) was planning to slash funding for workforce development program VIDA, they immediately set up meetings with municipal elected officials to identify and ensure City funds to make up the gap. While they discovered that the Mayor and one councilmember was completely on board with the proposal, leaders soon learned that the other three commissioners (a new majority) were planning to slash funding.

One commissioner, despite professing to having his "heart touched by the testimony of the students" told leaders that he might consider an investment of $50K (as opposed to the $290K previously funded by the EDC). In response to Valley Interfaith's vocal rejection of his crumbs, he told leaders they were "going to have problems" if they did not change their attitude.

Read more

1,000 COPS / Metro Leaders Rally for Pre-K Ballot Initiative

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · October 22, 2012 10:52 AM
"Approximately 1,000 people representing 35 church, school and union groups under the umbrella nonprofit Communities Organized for Public Service and the Metro Alliance, held their own press conference and publicly committed to backing Pre-K 4 SA."

Read more


Tweets by WXSWIAF

Sign in with:

Or sign up:


get updates

Liquid syntax error: Error in tag 'subpage' - No such page slug site.signup_page

Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.
Created with NationBuilder
using a public theme by cStreet