This Committee will continue programming and educational activities that reflect the problems of poverty delineated in “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink”. The Report takes stock of hte crisis of women in poverty in the United States and what women need now to push back from the brink of poverty. The committee includes individuals and representatives from different community organizations meeting regularly to discuss how we as a community can create our own public, private and personal approaches to help women push back from the brink of poverty.