Community Action Program Committee, Inc., (CAPC) has been serving Northwest Florida residents since April, 1965.
Our agency began as a small summer program for children, and has developed into a multi-faceted agency targeting poverty in our community. We are an anti-poverty agency and the following four programs work cohesively as our organization focuses on its vision to change people’s lives, to embody the spirit of hope and to make the community a better place to live.
COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (CSBG)
Funded through Department of Economic Opportunity
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Community Action Program Committee, Inc. is to help low income families achive self-sufficiency by creating solutions to poverty in collaboration with community stakeholders
OUR GOALS
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds, share 6 national goals focusing on the family, the community and Community Action Programs.
Families becoming self-sufficient
Achieve potential by strengthening family and supportive systems
Improving people lives in the community
Giving people a stake in their community
Partnerships among supports and providers
Increase our capacity to help
A message from our Board Chair Tabitha Nichols and our Executive Director Douglas Brown
Our History
In August of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Johnson. In October of 1964, Sargeant Shriver was sworn in as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
“It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won.”
~ President Lyndon B. Johnson
Board of Directors
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Representing Private Sector
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Representing Public Sector – Town of Century
Representing Public Sector,
Escambia County Commissioner
Escambia County Commissioner
Representing Public Sector,
Pensacola City Council
District 2
Pensacola City Council
District 2
Representing Private Sector
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Representing Public Sector, Escambia County School Board
District 3
District 3
Representing the Targeted Communities Sector