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What
are Community Action Agencies (CAAs)?
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The
CAA National Network
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Who
makes up the CAA Board, Staff and Volunteers?
What
are Community Action Agencies (CAAs)?
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 National Network
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.
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:
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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Who
makes up the CAA Board, Staff, and Volunteers?
Composition of a CAA board of directors:
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at
least one-third of a board’s members must be from the low-income
community
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exactly
one-third must be public officials
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up
to one-third may be from the private sector
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The
average size of a CAA board is 25 people
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The
typical size of agency staff is 115 full-time equivalent
workers.
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On
average each CAA has 813 people volunteering at the agency
each year.
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