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jr zv-ux s--vr- i Sunday, October 22, 1995 H5 LOCAL NEWS The Atlanta journal The Atlanta Constitution Social service agencies change tune, sing Atlanta Project's praises lion annual budeet after 1996. not a pressing need in her com- ports residents in the communi David Neurith, coordinator of TAP's Decatur office, echoed the sentiments of other coordinators who were asked if they were concerned about losing their jobs. "When I was hired to do this, I was told is was a five-year'pro-ject," he said. "Part of my charge was to work myself out of a job arid that's what I've been doing all along." TAP's bureaucracy. Kaney said community residents will feel empowered when they hold the keys to the collaboration centers.

Otherwise, many residents will feel that the centers exist primarily to enhance TAP's image. "TAP is going to have to turn from being such a public relations entity to being more of a behind-the-scenes group that sup munity, she said. "It is really difficult to focus on many different areas," she said. "For us, housing was not a priority, but we were under pressure to do something in housing." Carter speculated that TAP would reduce its staff by 20 percent next year and operate at about half of its current $5 mil A committee of advisers told Carter last week that TAP could build stronger relationships in Atlanta by working out of several satellite "cluster collaboration centers" rather than 20 distinct neighborhood offices. But Ginger Kaney, director of the Urban Training Organization of Atlanta, warned that TAP's collaboration centers might simply be another extension of ty," Kaney said.

The committee also recommended that TAP abandon its wide range of self-improvement issues to focus on programs that help children and families. Dot Morris, North Clayton cluster coordinator, said a narrower focus would help. Sometimes her cluster was mandated to work on programs that were mffltitilMfflfflfo A III a 1 Foiling links: A change Jn its approach is 'turning some critics of The Atlanta Project into supporters. By John Blake STAFF WRITER Social service agencies in Atlanta, traditionally among The Atlanta Project's most vocal critics, are cheering the group's sweeping plan to change its mis- sion and methodology. Former President Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that TAP is considering recommendations to abandon its system of neighborhood offices and work more closely with social service groups.

A decision is expected early next year. "It sounds great," said Janice Corry, program director for the Moreland Avenue Shelter, which houses homeless families. "When they're cutting funds left arid right, we need the help." 4 Although the changes are still discussion by TAP's policy board, the organization lias already begun to change its approach, said Suzanna Strib-ling, director of the Nonprofit Resource Center, which promotes and trains staff for nonprofit groups in Atlanta. "They've really made a lot of efforts in some of the clusters in forming strong partnerships with some of the nonprofits," she said. Carter founded TAP in 1991 with a goal of empowering metro Atlanta's poorest residents to improve their communities.

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