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Jim Gunshinan's Blog – September 2011 Archive (4)
What Do We Do Now?
After the ARRA funding runs out at the end of March, 2012, what do we do? That was the big question on the minds of attendees today at the 2011 National Association for State Community Services Program (NASCSP) Training Conference in Seattle. At the same time everyone felt the need to recognize the huge success achieved by WAP in the three years covered by the ARRA finding, especially because of recent criticism of the WAP program in Congress: WAP is on track to weatherize up to…
ContinueAdded by Jim Gunshinan on September 22, 2011 at 5:29pm — No Comments
Voices from NASCSP Training Conference, Seattle
Voices from the National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) Training Conference, Wednesday, September 21:
(Some are direct quotes, some are loose paraphrasing, and some are what I think I heard them say. Meanings are 100% accurate!)
WAP has weatherized 520,000 homes through August and spent $3.5 billion of the $5 billion we were given through ARRA. WAP is the 8th largest job creator of all the ARRA projects; we've created 15,000 jobs.
—LeAnn M.…
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Voices from the 2011 NASCSP Training Conference, Seattle
Voices from the National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP), Wednesday, September 21:
(Some are direct quotes, some are loose paraphrasing, and some are what I think I heard them say. Meanings are 100% accurate!)
WAP has weatherized 520,000 homes through August and spent $3.5 billion of the $5 billion we were given through ARRA. WAP is the 8th largest job creator of all the ARRA projects; we've created…
ContinueAdded by Jim Gunshinan on September 21, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Ode to a Home Performance Contractor
For 11 years people at Home Energy have bugged me to write a "home performance poem" because they know I am a poet as well as an editor. Well, it finally happened. I participate in a writing group and the last time we got together we decided as an exercise to write about something we have never written about before. Hope you like it!
Ode to a Home Performance Contractor
My name is House. I stood before you empty
and foreclosed upon.…
ContinueAdded by Jim Gunshinan on September 1, 2011 at 11:50am — 4 Comments
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