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	Free Tax Credit Webinars: Keep Working Families from Missing Out



	Register today for our online trainings about helping families claim important tax credits.

Many people dread filing their taxes. But for many families, filing a tax return enables them to claim valuable tax credits! Unfortunately, if they don’t have the information they need, eligible families might miss out on potentially thousands of dollars.

Let’s make this tax season different! We need your help to spread the word. And we’re offering two free online trainings to give you the information and tools you need:

Part I – Tax Credits: What Working Families Need to Know
Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (1 hour)

Get the facts about how federal and state tax credits can give working families a leg up, and get access to resources that will help you to get that information to families in your community.

This webinar will cover:

The EITC, which is worth up to $5,751 for low- and moderate-income families with children;
The Child Tax Credit, which is worth up to $1,000 per child;
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, which gives families with child care expenses up to $2,100;
Basic tips for sharing information about tax credits with families.

Part II – Tax Credits Outreach: Tips and Tools for Service Providers and Advocates
Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (1 hour)

You can make a big difference by making sure families get the information they need. Learn about simple outreach activities that can have a major impact on working families. This webinar will help you:

Get free outreach materials;
Connect with local coalitions;
Find free tax preparation services in your community; and
Learn some successful techniques for spreading the word about tax credits.

In addition to the webinars, you can also sign up to be one of our community partners. Community partners receive customized resources that make it easy to spread the word about tax credits to families in your community and technical assistance on issues relating to tax credits and outreach activities.

These webinars are part of the National Women’s Law Center‘s Citi Education Series on Family Economic Security and the Tax Credits Outreach Campaign. We hope you can join us!

Sincerely,

Joan Entmacher
Vice President, Family Economic Security
National Women’s Law Center

P.S. If you’re interested in doing more tax credits outreach in your community, remember to sign up for our community partner program in addition to the webinars!

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Wake up banks, mountains are at stake …Amanda Starbuck, Rainforest Action Network

04/05/2011 Nativegrl77

With your help over the last year, six of the largest banks in the world have cut their financing of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR).

http://www.ran.org/mtr

Sadly, a RAN report released today shows that Citi, PNC, Deutsche Bank and UBS are still asleep as mountains across Appalachia are destroyed forever.

So we’re going BIG and we’re getting louder. We’ve partnered with actress Susan Sarandon to issue a major wake up call about the tragedy of mountaintop removal. Watch this incredible video and send it to bank CEOs today.

Our mountains, our forests and the health of Appalachian communities are being sacrificed. It’s time for banks to stop financing MTR completely.

Send this important video to bank CEOs and tell them to stop funding the destruction of America’s mountains. http://www.ran.org/mtr

As Ms. Sarandon says, “Families across Appalachia need our help. Mountaintop removal is an American tragedy…an unnecessary, outdated practice with no place in our clean energy future.”

Show these banks what’s really at stake when they choose to do business with MTR coal companies. http://www.ran.org/mtr

Thanks for taking action with us. We couldn’t do it without you.

For the mountains,

Amanda Starbuck

Energy Finance Campaign

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Banks coming clean

03/09/2011 Nativegrl77

With the movement for clean energy growing stronger every day, the last thing we need is more oil pipelines. Especially when those pipelines are filled with oil from Canada’s dirty tar sands.

Citigroup doesn’t see it that way. Since 2008 Citi has raised more than $14 billion for the pipeline industry—more than any other bank. One of Citi’s biggest clients in the sector is TransCanada—the same company now proposing the infamous KeystoneXL pipeline to connect Canada’s tar sands to Gulf Coast oil refineries.

Guess what though? You can change the way bankers do business, even at Citi, just by connecting one-on-one to share your concerns.

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N3%2FV7gtTEeaYPOhQN40e2%2BxsQktoNWGN

Make a difference in all of our futures by picking up the phone today and calling a Citi banker.

This is no email petition, we’re actually putting you on the phone with the bankers who need to know about Citi’s financing of fossil fuels so they can help Citi change course. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3fOkJ%2FhFUlOnsTh8BH%2FJrZeWKDLLHRA3

The KeystoneXL pipeline would more than triple oil imports from the tar sands—effectively erasing the benefits of fuel efficiency standard s designed to break our crippling addiction to oil. Citi should clearly be financing our clean energy future, not outdated carbon-intensive fossil fuels.

Help us contact more than 2000 Citi employees today and enlist them in creating our clean energy future. It’ll make you feel great!

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JuxK4HRNsPJ%2BM3IrjlVbEZeWKDLLHRA3

For the future,

Brant Olson

Freedom From Oil Campaign Director

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Dear Citi, You screwed up big time

02/04/2011 Nativegrl77

In 2009, you helped push Citi to announce a “robust MTR Environmental Due Diligence Process,” giving hope that the bank would reduce its financial backing for mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

We’ve now discovered Citi’s mountaintop removal “due diligence process” is not worth the paper it’s printed on!

Join us in calling on Citi to stop funding mountaintop removal. 212 559 1000

MTR is a crime against America’s environment and people. Every day MTR coal corporations literally blow the tops off Appalachia‘s mountains: clear-cutting forests, wiping out natural habitats and poisoning rivers and drinking water. Not only are these mountains lost forever, but also the heritage and the health of families across the region are being sacrificed.

Last weekend, mountaintop removal mining company Alpha Natural Resources announced that it was purchasing Massey Energy, formerly the largest and most nefarious mountaintop removal company in Appalachia. Together, Massey and Alpha are responsible for more than 26 percent of all mountaintop mining in Central Appalachia. Citi is responsible for funding this toxic merger.

Join us in calling on Citi to stop funding mountaintop mining all together. 212 559 1000

Thanks for all that you do.

For the mountains,

Amanda Starbuck, Annie Sartor and Scott Parkin

Global Finance Campaign Team