PPPC Analysis & Information Committee

June 18^th, 2009

Goodwill Community Center

• Attendees: Rhonda Hannemann, Lisa Schneider, Lyle Verstegen, Lisa Severson, Mary Bloomer, Mark Priebusch, Mito Kudaka

Lisa –Housing Coalition is beginning to collect information at ‘coalition’ level. Here are some of the data points to be collected:

• # of homeless at point in time
• Wait list information for Section 8 (units available, number of people on list, how long it takes)
• Housing unit inventory: traditional housing, transitional housing, affordable housing, etc…
• Utilization of food pantry
• Public assistance case loads
• # of served by food share, badger care, etc…

Other info

• next meeting will be July 8^th (2^nd Wednesday)
• PPPC scorecard template sent to Lisa [done]
• Lisa to send data to A&I PPPC committee [Lisa to send to Mito]

Analysis & Information Powerpoint

• group will create its own ppt for purposes of sharing basic information
• timeline: TBD
• Not create individual ppts for other events/ committees

July 30^th Meeting

Guests for brainstorming of Financial Education/ Financial Literacy

• FISC – Mary Bloomer
• UWEX – Outagamie (Heidi Dusek) – Rhonda
• AASD Rita O’Brian – FISC (Mito)
• Community First Credit Union (Rick Sense) – Mito
• Catholic Charities – Jenn Lehner þ
• Lakeview Credit Union (Joy Veldboom) – Jenn Lehner
• Housing Partnership (Dorothy Olson) – Lisa Schneider
• Habitat for Humanity (Eileen Daly) – Mito
• FISC Financial Challenge Winners (?) – FISC (Mito)
• Ryan & Barb Eldred – Mito (ask Kathy)
• Alan Blake (ex-M&I/ inspirational speaker) – Jenn Lehner

Root Cause for lack of Financial Education/ Financial Literacy

• Invitation to participate: brainstorming session to help find out the root cause for the lack of financial education/ financial literacy.
• Please include the following paragraph and location/ time information in the e-mail you would send to your respective contacts, inviting them to participate in the brainstorming session.

The Analysis and Information committee for the Fox Cities Project Promise Poverty Coalition is requesting your participation in this brainstorming session. You are being asked to provide your insights about the root causes for financial illiteracy as this relates to poverty affecting Fox Cities community members.

Location – Goodwill Industries NCW Community Center

• 1800 Appleton Road, Menasha, WI
• Entrance 2
• Room: to be determined [Mito will have info by Friday June 19^th]
• Date: Thursday, July 30^th
• Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Due date – make contacts by end of Monday June 23th
• RSVP by Friday July 10^th to Mito Kudaka at mkudaka_gw@gwicc.org
• If you have any questions, please contact Mito (via e-mail or at 920.968.6831)

Next Meeting

• July 30th 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – brainstorming session
• August 20^th 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.