WELCOME - Since 1987, Centerpoint Community Services has been serving as the source of information & referral for human services including: housing, emergency or transtional shelter, rent & utility assistance, healthcare and prescription assistance, emergency food distribution, and crisis intervention in Northwest Louisiana. Read More
2013 VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE (VITA) REPORT
Our 2012 Tax Season is OVER!!! Here are the outcomes for our FREE Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Site at Centerpoint Community Services/Louisiana 2-1-1:
588FREE Returns Filed
$12,081,126.00 Total Annual Earned Income of VITA Tax Filers
$439,224.00 Total EIC Refunds
$936,574.00 Total Refunds returned to the Tax Filers of our NWLA Community
THANK YOU TO THE BEAIRD FAMILY FOUNDATION (Jim Montgomery, and Susan Beaird for believing in Centerpoint!) FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE OUR LOW-TO-MODERATE INCOME EARNERS OF THE SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER COMMUNITY, INVESTING IN ASSET BUILDING FOR THEIR FAMILIES.
THANK YOU TO THE IRS, AND THEIR SPECIAL PROGRAMS REPRESENTATIVE, PATRICIA JAMES!
THANK YOU TO OUR VITA VOLUNTEERS: RODNEY HILL and JANIE JOHNSON-MARCUS!
OUR GREATEST APPRECIATION GOES TO OUR VITA PROGRAM MANAGER, DERRICK ALLUMS. WITHOUT HIM AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO SERVICE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE SUCH A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM FOR EIGHT YEARS RUNNING - THANK YOU DERRICK ALLUMS!!! YOUR QUALITY ASSURANCE RECORD OF IRS RETURNS ACCEPTANCE IS THE BEST IN THE REGION - AGAIN!
AMERICAN WINTER (Please view this gripping video trailer of the upcoming broadcast on HBO of a documentary of the financial crisis in America, and its impact on our families.)