Each community-based organization must have the capability, as determined by the state administering agency, of carrying out:
A. Strengthening community capabilities for planning and coordinating federal, state, and other assistance through the efforts of local officials, organizations, and interested and affected citizens who are more responsive to local needs and conditions.
B. Better organization of services related to the needs of the poor so that these services may be made more effective in helping families and individuals.
C. Greater use subject to adequate evaluation of new types of services and innovative approaches in attacking causes of poverty so as to develop increasingly effective methods of employing available resources.
D. Development and implementation of all programs and projects designed to serve the poor or low-income areas with the maximum feasible participation of residents of the areas and members of groups served so as to best stimulate and take full advantage of capabilities for self-development and assure that those programs and projects are meaningful and utilized by intended beneficiaries.
E. Broadening of the resource-based programs directed to the amelioration of poverty so as to secure, in addition to the services and assistance of public officials, private, religious, charitable, and neighborhood organizations, and individual citizens, a more active role for business, labor, and professional groups in order to provide employment opportunities and otherwise influence the quantity and quality of services of concern to the poor.
F. Conform to such supplementary criteria as a state administering agency may prescribe to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
HISTORY: 1983 Act No. 143 Section 6.
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