• Strengthening America’s Values and Economy for All

  Strengthening America’s Values and Economy (SAVE) for All is a coalition of national, state and local advocacy groups, service providers, faith-based organizations, policy experts, labor and civil rights groups working to protect important services from harmful federal budget cuts and to save the federal capacity to spur economic recovery and progress for the benefit of all. Join the SAVE for All Campaign Group by visiting the Stay Connected page.

  The campaign will develop materials that make the case for the involvement of federal resources, engage grassroots advocates, employ media strategies and contact members of Congress with messages consistent with the campaign’s Statement of Principles to:

  • Protect low-income and vulnerable people
  • Promote job creation to strengthen the economy
  • Increase revenues from fair sources
  • Seek responsible savings targeting wasteful spending in the Pentagon and in other areas that do not serve the public interest

  Check out the SAVE for All letter with over 1,900 national, state, local organizations signed on!

  Visit our Impacts of Sequestration Page

Latest News

Policy Analyses and Research

Resources

• Toolkit

  Webinar Slides and Presentations:

  HEADING FOR A FISCAL CLIFF? Senator Murray Explains What Congress – and You – Must Do

  • Check out the audio recording and handouts here
  • Also click here for important resources related to the webinar

  New Proponomics Video, Episode 1:

  Impact of Looming Budget Cuts on Low-Income Families, our Communities, and our Economy: Tools and Resources to Help You Fight Back (4/10/12)

  • Webinar recording and handouts

  Emergency Update with Senator Al Franken (11/16/11)

  • Listen & Watch (29 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  Deficits, Domestic Programs and Pentagon Spending (10/27/11)

  • Listen & Watch (56 min)
  • Ruth Flower’s Slides
  • Laura Peterson’s Slides
  • Chris Hellman’s Slides
  • Talking Points
  • Larry Korb’s Slides (2 Alternatives): $400 Billion in Cuts & $1 Trillion in Cuts

  CHN Webinar: Wake Up Call to the Nation: How to Use the New Poverty and Health Insurance Data(9/8/11)

  • Listen & Watch (1:14 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  CHN Webinar: The Deficit Deal Explained (8/18/11)

  • Listen & Watch (1:23 min)
  • Presentation Slides
  • Transcript

  Domestic Human Needs Webinar (8/3/11)

  • “What’s the Deal?” Webinar

  CHN Webinar: Stop the Slashing (6/7/11)

  • Click here for the “Stop the Slashing” Resource Page
  • Listen and Watch (1:03 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  RESULTS and the To Catch a Dollar Campaign Webinar: “The Budget Debate” (4/27/11)
  Featuring Debbie Weinstein

  • Presentation Slides

  CHN Webinar: Extreme Federal Budget Threats (4/12/11)

  • Listen and Watch (1:24 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  Half in Ten Webinar: Stories Behind the Cuts (3/14/11)

  • Audio Recording (58:53 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  CHN Webinar: A Better Budget for All (2/25/11)

  • Audio Recording (1:12 min)
  • Presentation Slides

  How-to Guides:

  Advocacy Toolkits

  • RESULTS Resource Kit: The Activist Milestones: Developing the Skills to Become a Trained Citizen Activist
    Tools to help you empower yourself, work with Congress, communicate effectively with the media and work within your community.
  • The Leadership Conference Grassroots Tool Kit
    Includes tools to help you plan and carry out effective grassroots public education or advocacy campaigns, including resources on how to use social media, effective communication and how to educate and engage public officials.
  • Food Research and Action Center: FRAC’s Afterschool Meals Guide
    A guide to getting afterschool meals in your schools
  • SAVE for All: How-to Guide for the Budget (6/9/11)
    Town Hall Meeting Tipsheet (8/12/11)
    • Bread for the World: Effectively Using a Town Hall Meeting to Call for a Circle of Protection

    Planning a Site Visit with Your Member of Congress:

    • Resources from RESULTS
    • Resources from the Food Research and Action Center
    • Resources from Early Care and Education Consortium

    How to Participate in a Legislative Visit by Phone

    • Resource from SAVE for All

  Other Resources:

  The Nation Blog: This Week in Poverty

  Tax Dollar Trade-Offs: National Priorities Project: Tax Dollars Trade-Off Tool

  Click Here for CHN’s Poverty Day 2011 Page

  CHN Working Paper:

  Budget Issues Resources, a compilation of research and budget projections about cuts to human needs programs, as well as detailed State-by-State data on these issues

  State-by-State Information

  • Wider Opportunities for Women: Economic Security Database (The Basic Economic Security Tables™ (BEST) Index and the The Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index) (3/2/12)
  • National Women’s Law Center: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2011: Reduced Support For Families in Challenging Times (10/11/11)
  • Citizens for Tax Justice: State-by-State Figures on Proposed Millionaire Surcharge (10/6/11)
    Half in Ten: Whose Interests Will the Super Committee Members Represent? Super Committee Fact Sheets (Updated 10/4/11)
  • Half in Ten: What’s at Stake: Safety Net Programs Help Struggling Americans in Districts Nationwide (10/4/11)
  • NWLC: State-By-State Poverty Data from the 2010 Census (9/23/11)
  • Half in Ten: Interactive Map: 2010 Poverty Data by Congressional District (9/22/11)
  • Half in Ten: Interactive Map: 2010 Poverty Data by State (9/22/11)
  • National Women’s Law Center: State-by-State Fact Sheets for Super-Committee Advocacy (8/19/11)
  • Kaiser Family Foundation: State-by-State Changes in Medicaid Financing (May 2011)
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: SNAP/Food Stamp Benefit Reductions by State (April 2011)
  • National Priorities Project: Federal Aid to States – Select Programs

  Special Briefing Call:  New Findings from the Ms. Foundation’s 2011 Poll, Community Voices for the Economy
  With special guest speaker Celinda Lake (4/29/11)

  • Listen to the briefing call (50 min.)
  • See Celinda Lake’s presentation slides
  • See related polling data

  Sample Letters to the Editor

  • Sample LTEs from RESULTS: Tell the media we need a balanced approach to deficit reduction(November 2011)
  • Sample letters to the editor and writing tips for the Census data release (Updated 9/22/11)
  • Sample letters to the editor and writing tips (4/27/11)
  • Sample letters to the editor about the federal budget (March 2011)

  Talking Points on Irresponsible Budget Cuts

  • Resource from Coalition on Human Needs

  Statements from Congress to the Super Committee

  • Finance Committee Republicans Submit Recommendations to Deficit Reduction Committee (10/14/11)
  • Senator McCain Urges Super Committee to Avoid Further Cuts to the Defense Budget (10/14/11)
  • Committee on Ways and Means (10/14/11)
  • Comittee on Appropriations (10/14/11)
  • Committee on Natural Resources Statement (10/14/11)
  • Statement from Representative Nancy Pelosi (10/13/11)
  • Committee on Education and the Workforce Statement (10/13/11)
  • Committee on Energy and Commerce Statement (10/13/11)
  • Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (10/13/11)
  • Committee on the Judiciary Statement (10/13/11)
  • Committee of Armed Services (10/12/11)
  • Committee on House Administration Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Financial Services Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Foreign Affairs Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Homeland Security Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Intelligence Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Small Business Statement (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Oversight and Government Reforms (10/12/11)
  • Committee on Science, Space and Technology Statement (10/7/11)
  • Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (10/6/11)

  Appropriations

  Omnibus Overview: Read more here 
  Energy & Water: Read more here 
  Financial Services: Read more here
  Homeland Security: Read more here 
  Interior/Environment: Read more here 
  L-HHS-Ed: Read more here 
  Legislative Branch: Read more here
  Defense: Read more here
  State/Foreign Opts: Read more here 
  Disaster Relief: Read more here

  Click here for the full House Republican Appropriators Summary

  Send Us Your Stories

  CHN and Half in Ten Storybank – Submit your story today!
  Half in Ten and the Coalition on Human Needs are collecting stories highlighting the ways that federal programs successfully build economic security and meet the needs of vulnerable populations. We welcome short video clips or written stories from anyone who can speak to the benefit and success of federal programs such as direct beneficiaries, social service providers, and community, faith or business leaders. For more instructions and guidelines on submitting your story click here.

  Half in Ten Storybanking Webinar: Stories Behind the Cuts–hear the audio recording from the webinar and download the handouts to learn more about how to effectively collect and deploy stories.

  Get Involved

  Join the SAVE for All listserv, please email Danica Johnson at djohnson@chn.org.

  Participate in Weekly SAVE for All conference calls. Contact Danica Johnson at djohnson@chn.org to get more information.