Impact Alabama Awarded 'Outstanding Partnership Award' at the Gulf-South Service-Learning Summit
The Gulf-South Summit Award for Outstanding Service-Learning Partnership is given annually to "a team of practitioners, faculty, and community partners who have demonstrated success in achieving a mutually beneficial collaboration that impacts real needs in the community."
Impact Founder Stephen Foster Black Receives Childcare Resources Award
Stephen Black, founder and president of Impact Alabama, has been honored with the ‘2009 Children’s Advocate Award’ by Childcare Resources. The group selected Black from twenty nominees, including corporations, foundations, and other individuals and recognized him for exhibiting “extraordinary commitment to Central Alabama’s children.”
Alabama Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act Passes House Boards & Commissions Committee
House Committee Votes 10-4 to Move Legislation Forward
The Alabama House of Representative’s Board and Commissions Committee approved the Alabama Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act during a hearing yesterday afternoon. The legislation will provide for testing and licensing of commercial tax preparers in the state to help ensure they are competent and ethical and comes on the heels of Impact Alabama’s statewide investigation which uncovered widespread fraud and negligence in the industry. Montgomery Advertiser: House panel OKs bill on tax preparer regulation
Impact Alabama SaveFirst Initiative prepares returns for 2,600 working families statewide during January and February
400 trained students and Impact staff help families secure $4.8 million in refunds and save $650,000 in commercial preparation fees and refund anticipation loan costs
The third year of the SaveFirst Initiative saw tremendous success in terms of student participants and community members served. Nearly doubling our efforts from last season, we also developed partnerships with more than seventy community-based organizations and worked with fourteen college campuses to prepare returns in twelve cities statewide. Many student participants remarked after the experience that their opinions and perspectives of working families living at or near the poverty line have improved through their work at the free tax preparation sites. We are looking forward to even greater success next year!
