Community Action
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Central
Missouri Community Action
Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) is a private, non-profit
corporation. Incorporated over thirty years ago, on December
6, 1965, CMCA is the designated Community Action Agency for
the eight counties of Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper,
Howard, Moniteau and Osage.
Community
Action Agency of St. Louis County
Mission: To provide individuals, families,
and local communities at or near the poverty level, or in crisis,
with essential resources and interpersonal support to move toward
appropriate self-sufficiency.
This will be accomplished by addressing, with dignity and respect,
the requirements of the whole person, including emotional, physical,
economic and educational needs.
CAASTLC is a Community Action Agency serving St. Louis County.
Community
Action Partnership of St. Joseph
Established in 1965 as a private nonprofit organization
the Community Action Partnership of St. Joseph (CAP of St. Joseph),
is the designated Community Action Agency serving the needs
of low-income families in Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, and DeKalb
Counties in Northwest Missouri. Encompassing the goal of providing
family-focused , comprehensive human services, they offer a
variety of programming while keeping their mission intact.
Community
Services, Inc. of Northwest Missouri
Community
Services, Inc. is a private, non-for-profit corporation that
contracts with Federal and State funding sources to operate
programs and provide services to low-income, elderly, and handicapped
individuals in Northwest Missouri.
Delta
Area Economic Opportunity Corporation
The Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation (DAEOC)
is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a local
tri-partite board. The board is composed of twenty-one
persons from Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott,
and Stoddard counties in the Bootheel. The board consists
of equal numbers of private sector, public sector, and low-income
representatives. This organizational structure brings
together local community leaders from each of the representative
groups to respond to specific community needs.
DAEOC forms a network of resources and individuals all united
under the self-help principal of creating community solutions
to community problems. Services are made available through
a blending of federal, state, and local funding. By combining
funding sources, the agency provides services that best meet
the needs of their community.
East
Missouri Action Agency
EMAA is a not-for-profit Missouri corporation governed
by a 24-member Board of Directors – three from each of the counties
in EMAA’s primary service area: Bollinger, Cape Girardeau,
Iron, Madison, Perry, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve and Washington.
Economic
Security Corporation of the Southwest Area
Economic Security Corporation of Southwest Area (ESC) is a private
nonprofit Community Action Agency created in October 1965, to
serve the needs of low-income individuals and families.
Green
Hills Community Action Agency
Mission Statement:
"The Green Hills Community Action Agency will focus
on assisting low-income people in their efforts to become self-reliant.
The Agency will strive to work in partnership with the state,
counties, communities and other agencies to provide a range
of human and economic services and activities.
The goal of these services and activities is to address and
ease the misery of poverty, replace despair with opportunity
and hope, make known the plight of the poor, focus in on people,
individuals, families, communities, and facilitate problem solving."
Human
Development Corporation of Metropolitan St. Louis
The mission of the
Human Development Corporation is to provide a range of services
that assist low-income individuals and families to gain skills,
knowledge and motivation to become self-sufficient and revitalize
the community.
Jefferson-Franklin
Community Action Corporation
Jefferson-Franklin Community Action Corporation is a private,
nonprofit corporation, formed in 1965. The mission of
JFCAC is to advance, elevate, and promote the economic, educational,
civic, and social conditions of the citizens. The mission
includes the need to promote self-sufficiency and to strengthen
the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
MACA
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Missouri
Ozarks Community Action, Inc.
Missouri Ozarks Community Action, Inc. (MOCA) is a non-profit
community action agency, People Helping People. MOCA is dedicated
to helping families and individuals in the eight central Missouri
counties of Camden, Crawford, Gasconade, Laclede, Maries, Miller,
Phelps, and Pulaski. MOCA's goal is to help low income people
become self-sufficient. This is accomplished through the aid
of federal, state, local, and private resources.
Missouri
Valley Community Action Agency
Missouri Valley Community Action Agency (MVCAA) – The
mission of Missouri Valley Community Action Agency is to empower
disadvantaged people in our seven-county area to attain self-sufficiency
through quality programs.
North East Community Action
Corporation
Our Mission...
North East Community Action Corporation
(NECAC) is dedicated to assist the disadvantaged within our
12 county service area in their efforts to rise above poverty
by providing needed services to enable each individual to function
at his or her own improved financial, physical, mental and social
level.
Northeast
Missouri Community Action Agency
The Northeast Missouri Community Action Agency was established
in 1965 as a non-profit organization to help the less fortunate
members of the community. The NMCAA provides services to Adair,
Clark, Knox, Scotland and Schuyler counties. The NMCAA offers
programs such as Head Start, LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program), ECIP (Energy Crisis Intervention Program)
and other services through the CSBG (Community Services Block
Grant). Our 'Vision' is to enable individuals, families
and the community to achieve their greatest potential.
Ozark Action,
Inc.
Ozark Action, Incorporated (OAI) seeks to utilize available
resources to effectively assist individuals, families and communities
to achieve their highest levels of self-sufficiency, thereby,
decreasing the levels of poverty throughout OAI's service area.
Ozarks
Area Community Action Corporation
"It is the mission of the Ozarks Area Community
Action Corporation to improve the quality of life by reducing
poverty and strengthening families and communities."
South
Central Missouri Community Action Agency
South Central Missouri Community Action Agency is a private,
not-for-profit organization working to help people, change lives
and end poverty in a seven-county area of south central Missouri.
The counties we serve are Butler, Carter, Dent, Reynolds, Ripley,
Shannon and Wayne.
United Services
Community Action Agency
Mission:
To eliminate poverty among the people of Jackson, Clay and Platte
counties in Missouri.
West Central
Missouri Community Action Agency
West Central Missouri Community Action Agency (WCMCAA) is
a community based organization dedicated to bettering the economic,
physical, mental, and social well-being of all people, especially
the disadvantaged, by effectively coordinating and administering
available resources and information.
Community
Action Partnership
The Community Action Partnership was established in 1972
as the National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA)
and is the national organization representing the interests
of the 1,000 Community Action Agencies (CAAs) working to fight
poverty at the local level.
Community
Action Program Legal Services Inc.
Community Action Program Legal Services Inc. (CAPLAW) is
a nonprofit membership organization designed to provide expert
legal services and legal training to community action agencies.
National
Association for State Community Services Programs
National Association for State Community Services Program's
Mission: To increase the capacity of the states to prevent and
reduce poverty.
National Community
Action Foundation
The National Community Action Foundation (NCAF) – Advocates
for the nation's Community Action Agencies and the low-income
Americans they serve.
Special
Interest Web Links
Center of Budget
and Policy Priorities
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. A nonpartisan research
organization and policy institute with an emphasis on low and
moderate income policies and programs.
Children's Defense
Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No
Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy
Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral
Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help
of caring families and communities.
Children's
Trust Fund
Your License To Care. Spread the "Prevent
Child Abuse" message with official Missouri personalized
license plates.
Community
Connection
Community Connection is a statewide database of community
resources and consumer information on the World Wide Web.
Housing
Assistance Council
The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) is a national nonprofit
corporation created to increase the availability of decent and
affordable housing for low-income people in rural areas throughout
the United States.
Learning
Center
Learning Network Parent Channel
MC+
for Kids
MC Plus For Kids – Missouri’s Health Insurance
Program For Children
Missouri
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Annual Reporting of School Data
Missouri
Head Start Association
The mission of the Missouri Head Start Association (MHSA)
is to conduct education, resource development and research activities
to advance Head Start thereby enhancing child and family development.
MHSA is made up of directors, staff, parents, and friends of
each grantee and delegate agency in Missouri. The Association's
services are delivered to its members, the general public, children,
families, staff, legislators, state departments and other service
organizations and agencies.
Missouri's
New Workforce Development System
Missouri’s New Workforce Development System –
The new Workforce Development System is being developed to improve
customer-based results for job seekers and employers.
National
Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for
the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest
and most influential organization of early childhood educators
and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for
children from birth through third grade.
Northwestern
University
The Asset-Based Community Development
Institute (ABCD) at Northwestern University. Community Development
Research by John Kretzmann and John McKnight.
Office
of Social and Economic Data Analysis
The Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis (OSEDA)
provides Missourians with up-to-date social, economic, and demographic
information about their localities.
Residential
Energy Services Network
The Residential Energy Services Network's (RESNET) mission
is to improve the energy efficiency of the nation's housing
stock and to justify more families for home ownership.
The
Academy
The National Community Action Management
Academy is a distinct training experience designed specifically
for the top management teams of community action agencies.
Our focus is on building the capacity of your management team.
Funded by the Office of Community Services (OCS), the Academy's
purpose is to cross-train your management team in core competencies
that are critical for an agency's top-level managers.
The Foundation
Center
Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web.
WAP Technical
Assistance Center
This site provides weatherization practitioners and other
energy conservation professionals with information related to
the Weatherization
Assistance Program (WAP).
Government
Agency Links
CSBG
REGULATIONS/NOTICES/INFORMATION MEMORANDA
Missouri
State Government
Missouri State
Government Web Page. Links to state departments, plus, view
Missouri statutes, find out about legislative committee members
and more.
The
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs
that promote the economic and social well-being of families,
children, individuals, and communities.
The
White House
