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Members of the RuFES Action Network receive bi-weekly email Action Alerts on current and upcoming resources, opportunities and events. These Alerts relate to goals within the RuFES Framework – Earn It, Keep It, Grow It – aimed at helping low-income rural families get ahead.
You will find the most recent Alerts HERE. To view previous Action Alerts, check out the following archive.
Action Alert Archive
2012, 2011, 2010
2012
- State EITC Win-Win: Keep Low-Income Families’ Wealth — and Health! (06.01.12)
- SPECIAL ALERT: How to Partner with the USDA to Improve Nutrition in Your Rural Community! (05.15.12)
- No Place Like a Rural Home — If You Can Afford One! (05.09.12)
- SPECIAL ALERT: A Few Good Organizations Wanted: Express Interest by April 30th to Participate (04.27.12)
- Asset Policy Picks: How to Combat Rural Family Poverty (04.26.12)
- Scholarships to Attend Grassroots and Groundwork (04.03.12)
- Special Alert: March 28th Webinar on Innovations in Rural IDA Programs (03.26.12)
- ROC the Affordable Housing World (03.15.12)
- Alert Us: Help us kick the RuFES Action Network up a notch! (03.01.12)
- CREATE a Future: Smash the Tuition Barrier! (02.17.12)
- Rural Funders Take On Foreclosures (02.07.12)
- The Savings Account Edge: Getting Rural Kids to College (02.03.12)
- Tax Refund Win-Win: Keep It AND Grow It! (01.19.12)
- 2012: Year of the Rural IDA? (01.05.12)
2011
- Have a Holly Jolly RuFES (12.20.11)
- Make This a Holiday Season to Bank On! (12.01.11)
- It’s Open Season on Taxes! Prepare to Run a First-Rate Rural EITC Campaign: Three-Part Webinar Mini-Series Follow-Up (11.21.11)
- It’s Open Season on Taxes! Prepare to Run a First-Rate Rural EITC Campaign: Join Our Three-Part Webinar Mini-Series (10.28.11)
- Keep Rural Families Healthy: Making Health Insurance More Affordable and More Accessible (10.13.11)
- Viral Video Games: Making Financial Education Entertaining (09.08.11)
- Kids DO Count (08.25.11)
- Stop Going to Extremes: Close That Income Inequality Gap for Rural Families and Counties (08.11.11)
- Spending Cuts and the Social Safety Net: Struggling Rural Families Face An Uncertain Future (07.21.11)
- “See” How Much Education Matters: Move Your County’s Needle on Educational Attainment TODAY! (07.07.11)
- Webinar Follow Up: Fortify Your Financial Toolbox This Summer! AssetPlatform Interactive Webinar (06.23.11)
- Fortify Your Financial Toolbox This Summer! AssetPlatform Interactive Webinar (06.09.11)
- Access to Healthy Food – A Recipe for Rural Sustainability! (05.26.11)
- 2011 National Rural Assembly: Speak Rural Truth to Power! (05.12.11)
- Microenterprise Census: The More Rural is Counted, the More Rural Counts! (04.31.11)
- Tax Credits vs. Budgets: Will Rural Working Families Win? (04.14.11)
- Energize Your Rural Entrepreneurship Program From Your Desk! (03.31.11)
- Rural Wealth Creation and Livelihoods: A National Conference and Conversation for Practitioners, Researchers and Policymakers (03.25.11)
- Spring Your IDA Program Into Action! (03.17.11)
- Macro Your Micro! (03.03.11)
- How Do Kids Count in Our Budgets? (02.17.11)
- Saving Your Tax Refund Won’t Hurt Eligibility for TANF! (02.04.11)
- Refunds Going Plastic? (01.28.11)
- SNAP to It: Feed Rural Families and Economies (01.14.11)
- Save More! Help Rural America Keep This New Year’s Resolution (01.06.11)
2010
- We Wish You a Merry RuFES (12.09.10)
- The Serve America Act Can Serve Your Community (12.03.10)
- Fresh Funds for Fresh New Farmers… and Ranchers (11.18.10)
- Webinar Follow-Up – Gotta Get to Work: Car Repair and Car Donation as an Earn It Strategy (11.16.10)
- Gotta Get to Work: Car Repair and Car Donation as an Earn It Strategy (11.08.10)
- Rural Child Poverty is Too Darned High (11.04.10)
- Reinvigorating Rural Education with Community Schools (10.28.10)
- Webinar Follow Up: Yes Dear, October IS Tax Time! Prepare to Run a First-Rate Rural EITC Campaign (10.25.10)
- Grants to Help Rural Areas Close the Health Care Gap (10.22.10)
- Webinar: Yes Dear, October IS Tax Time! Prepare to Run a First-Rate Rural EITC Campaign (10.12.10)
- What’s Your Rural Community College Idea for the White House Summit? (09.30.10)
- Get Good and Certified: Financial Educators for Seniors! (09.27.10)
- Funds to Water Your Food Desert (09.23.10)
- Money to Help Your Neighbors Access Money! (09.10.10)
- Keep It: Making the Nasty Nine a Tad Nicer – New Credit Card Act Gives Credit Cards their Due! (09.02.10)
- Pre-Paid Cards: Stepping Stone to Mainstream Financial Services (08.26.10)
- Webinar Follow-up: Turning the Pennies in Your Pocket into Family Assets – Roll Your Change Week-Reruns and Resources! (08.24.10)
- Webinar Invitation: Turning the Pennies in Your Pocket into Family Assets (08.03.10)
- ACT NOW! Tick Tock Goes the Assets Learning Clock (07.21.10)
- RuFES Team Participation Incentives for CFED’s 2010 Assets Learning Conference (07.15.10)
- A Declaration of Independence from Payday Loans! (07.01.10)
- A Health Care Opportunity is a Comin’ to Your Community (06.22.10)
- There’s No Place Like (a Manufactured) Home (06.15.10)
- Do You Know Where Your Rural Kids Will Eat this Summer? (06.04.10)
- Extra, Extra: The IRS is Giving Away Money (05.27.10)
- Regulating Boardband: Protecting Rural Interests (05.20.10)
- Re-engaging High School Dropouts: A Summit at Luzerne County Community College (05.18.10)
- From Cradle to College: Coming Together for Your Community’s Youth (05.13.10)
- National Summit of Rural America: A Chance to be Heard (05.06.10)
- The Federal Government Doesn’t Double Your Money Just Any Day (04.20.10)
- Act Now… Being Counted Counts! Rural Areas Could Lose Billions Due to Census Undercounts (03.18.10)
- Follow-Up to Rural IDAs Webinar (03.03.10)
- IDA and RuFES Make a Fine Couple – Feb. 26 Webinar (02.08.10)
- Here Comes Another Big Chunk of Rural Broadband Change (02.11.10)
- Send Your RuFES Action Hero to the National Rural Youth Assembly (02.08.10)
- Our Oscar Nomination: Pursuing the Dream: Building Credit for Life (02.03.10)
- Max Your Microenterprise Muscle (01.28.10)
- Total Impact: New State-by-State Data on Bad Lending (01.22.10)
- Scholarship Available for Prepaid Card Expo (01.08.10)
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