Tri-County Community Action, Inc.
Champaign, Logan & Shelby Counties of Ohio, USA
Phone: 937-593-0034  1-866-256-4497 (Toll Free)                                                                                          

COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY  - PROFILE

Community Action Agencies (CAAs) are nonprofit private and public organizations established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America's War on Poverty. Community Action Agencies help people to help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency. Today there are approximately 1,000 Community Action Agencies in the United States.
 

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The CAA Network
Community Action Agencies Across America
The service areas of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) cover 96 percent of the nation's counties. * These agencies are connected by a national network that includes a national association, state associations, regional associations, a national lobbying organization, and a national association of Community Service Block Grant (the core funding for CAAs) administrators.

Click here for a listing of CAAs and state CAA associations.

CAAs are a primary source of support for the more than 34.5 million people who are living in poverty in the United States.** The majority of CAA program participants are extremely poor, with incomes below 75 percent of the federal poverty threshold, or $9,735 for a family of three (the average family size for the client population).*

CAAs as a network serve approximately:

• 9.3 million individuals per year *
• 3.3 million families per year *

Addititional CAA Facts:

• 54% of CAAs are in rural areas.
• 36% of CAAs are in areas considered both urban and rural.
• 10% of CAAs are located in urban areas.

The average population of a CAA’s service area is approximately 300,000 people. The average number of low-income people within these service areas is 37,600.

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* Source: The National Association for State Community Services Programs
** Source: Census Bureau
Other figures obtained through a 1998 survey of CAAs. Response rate: 37 percent.
  Board, Staff, and Volunteers
Composition of a CAA board of directors:

• at least one-third of a board’s members must be from the low-income community
• exactly one-third must be public officials
• up to one-third may be from the private sector

• The average size of a CAA board is 25 people
• The typical size of agency staff is 115 full-timeequivalent workers.
• On average each CAA has 813 people volunteering at the agency each year.

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What CAAs Do

Information above is from the Community Action Partnership Web Site