The Board of Directors is the principal policymaking unit of a Community Action Agency. It is a group of local citizens who meet to provide directions for the agency. The Board makes the agency alive. The Board gives the Community Action Agency form and effect. The Community Action Agency, with its representative Board, brings together a varied group of people with different values, cultures, and standards. Since this is the group, which must join hands to wage the local war on poverty, it must mold itself into an effective unit. It is the Board’s diversity which gives it the “ability to build bridges between the low-income and the not low-income, between government officials and private groups, between professionals and laymen, between agencies which operate related programs, and between the low-income and the opportunities which could help them become self-sufficient, productive, respected citizens.”
Current Board of Directors