Community Assistance Network
"Helping people. Changing lives."
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Nelson Townsend, Executive Director
58 Cannon Drive
Berlin, MD 21811
Telephone: (410) 208-4836
Fax: (410) 208-4839
E-mail: netownsend@salisbury.edu
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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Maryland Community Action Partnership (MCAP) is the association of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) located in the State of Maryland. For information regarding the partnership, please contact . . .
Duane Yoder, President
Garret County CAC
104 East Center Street
Oakland, MD 21550
Telephone: (301) 334-9431
Fax: (301) 334-8555
E-mail: dyoder@garrettcac.org
What Are CAAs?
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.
The CAA Network
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.
