National Head Start Association

NHSA Government Affairs Updates



NHSA's Government Affairs Update is now included in the bi-weekly electronic publication News You Can Use, providing comprehensive, timely, and insightful information on legislative issues facing Head Start.

News You Can Use Issues are here.



06/29/2010

NHSA Update Week of June 28, 2010

NHSA Launches SupportHeadStart.org 
  

To help the Head Start and Early Head Start community get important and timely messages to Capitol Hill, we have launched www.SupportHeadStart.org

From this easy-to-use website, you can send a message to your Representatives and Senators about Head Start and Early Head Start appropriations for FY 2011. 

We need your help and the time is now! Congress may not approve the President's budget request for Head Start for FY 2011, which means we could lose the gains we recently made through the Recovery Act.

 

Visit www.supportheadstart.org now!

 

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06/11/2010

NHSA Update Week of June 11, 2010

Calling All Friends of and Members of the Head Start and Early Head Start Community :

We need your help and the time is now!    

Congress may not approve the President's budget request for Head Start and Early Head Start for Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011), which means we could lose the gains we recently made through the Recovery Act.   

Contact your Member of Congress and your Senator now!

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05/28/2010

NHSA Update Week of May 28, 2010

NHSA Affiliate Relations-- Working for You 

 
Thanks to all Regional and State Association leaders who have jumped out to support the work of Affiliate Relations over the past two weeks.  Ed Condon has conducted “check-in” meetings with 15 states, two regions and two strategic partners.  He is looking forward to meeting with each of the associations over the next month and continues to be impressed with the hard work of these “lean operations.”  The network of Head Start Associations is active and engaged!  If you have not yet scheduled a time, contact NHSA Affiliate Relations at 703-739-7568 or econdon@nhsa.org

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05/14/2010

NHSA Update Week of May 14, 2010

Calling All State and Regional Association Leaders!

NHSA is pleased to launch an outreach effort to engage regional and state association leadership – volunteer boards and professional staff.  Our goal is to re-imagine the new NHSA network of relationships - local, state, regional, and national - and articulate its purposes, including quality improvement of programs and services to children and their families.

Please contact Edward Condon, Director of Affiliate Relations – econdon@nhsa.org to learn more and work collectively to move Head Start forward.

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04/28/2010

NHSA Update Week of April 30, 2010

Give to Dollar Per Child
 
NHSA would like to give a big thanks to all of the programs who have donated to the Dollar per Child campaign ("DPC") so far.
 
This is a special reminder for your program to send in its DPC funds in time for our Annual Conference beginning May 3, 2010 – remember, this is when public presentations will be made to the NHSA campaign. Make sure your state’s contributions are at the top of the list! 
 
As you know, the funds from Dollar per Child help NHSA pay for all of our legislative efforts, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Head Start Appropriations, and Early Learning Challenge Fund. Your support of the DPC campaign is vital to NHSA's advocacy efforts on behalf of the Head Start Community.  We cannot do our work without your support!
 
You can even easily donate online on our website.

 

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