FES Workgroup

July 14, 2003
EBALDC office

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Attendees:

Randy Tillery , Susie Smith, Brendan Leung, Yung Ouyang

1. Deb Montesinos gave us a copy of the Sacramento survey to review.
2. Susie and Randy could not do much more before this meeting.
3. Choosing CBOs with constituencies is the way to go.
4. Urban Strategies Council’s role: gather and crunch data
5. Do we need a consultant to help create the survey? What about administering it? We agreed to ask Fred Blackwell and Bart Lubow from the Casey Foundation to see if there are funds.
6. Are we looking for something statistically significant? No, we are not looking for something huge.
7. David Kakishiba wants to administer survey as a part of the Listening Campaign.
8. Format:
   • Family balance sheet
   • Independent survey followed by focus groups
   • Use local CBOs with different constituencies
9. Person getting surveyed will receive a gift certificate or cash.
10. Survey takes an hour or one and a half hours, with incentives and food.
11. In relation to the Cross Site Survey, what kinds of things do we want to cross tabulate?
12. If we use local CBOs, and they serve folks who are not LSA residents, the CBOs would need to prescreen.
13. If we hire someone, the work will get done quicker, but we need quick money from Casey.
14. Next steps:
    • Randy will talk with Tse-Ming Tam of the National Economic Development and Law Center to see if he would be interested in helping to create the survey and to cost it out
    • Randy will talk with Fred to see if there are funds to hire Tse-Ming
    • Meeting will be scheduled in the beginning of August after getting responses from Tse-Ming and Fred.