Public Utilities and Energy Section Grant Funded by O.E.O, 1975-1976

The Human Affairs Program applied for and received a $20,000 from O.E.O via the Cortland County Community Action program for the year January 1975 to January 1976. The grant was officially entitled the “Energy Crisis Education and Development Project.” As part of this project, the HAP staff, Jim Schmidt, Jinx Dowd and Dan Leahy, conducted energy education workshops in multiple counties throughout New York State. |Contains workshop planning questionnaires, workshop agendas multiple guides and research materials, as well as a 20 page “Index of Community Organizations” (May 1975); a Rick Turner slide show description: “People in Struggle: Community Resources and the IOU's” (June, 1975). Also contains a three page summary of the work done by this HAP section from November 1974 to April 1976, including the production of the massive “An Organizer's Notebook on Public Utilities and Energy for New York State” compiled with the assistance of Kat Dalton and containing the research of HAP staff member, Bob Fitch. There is also a Urban Fellows Institute report by Mary Ann Herberling (Municipal Ownership of Electric and Gas Service in Schenectady), August 1975.