Kane, Michael.

Michael Kane graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in political science in 1970. After graduation he was director of the New Haven Office of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, and then founder and director of the New Haven Citizens' Action Project. After serving as summer program director of the Eastern Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group in 1973, he became vice chair and then executive director of the Massachusetts Air Pollution and Noise Abatement Committee, until November 1974. He was director of the Massachusetts Social and Economic Opportunity Council, and executive director of Low Income Planning Aid and Massachusetts Community Action. The Massachusetts Social and Economic Opportunity Council was a federally funded independent council of state government created by executive order in 1975 to advocate within state government on behalf of the poor. The governor abolished the council in 1979. Low Income Planning Aid began in 1973 and was a federally funded organization that provided technical assistance and services to local community groups throughout the state. LIPA assumed some of SEOC's work in 1979, and changed its name in mid-1980 to Massachusetts Community Action. MCA was defunded early in 1981.