Pittsburgh Community Services Inc.

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History of Community Action

About Community Action Agencies

Community Action Agencies create pathways to prosperity by helping households achieve long-term stability. Located across the United States and its territories – with 42 agencies in Pennsylvania – our innovative, responsive, and effective programs address the needs of our neighbors and strengthen entire communities.

  • Read more here about Community Action.
  • Download the two-page brief “Introduction to Community Action and the Community Services Block Grant” [PDF].
  • Check out the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania’s Impact Report [PDF] to learn more about the impact of Community Action statewide

Looking Back: PCSI Annual Reports

A caregiver working with older adults in a 1980s adult day care center.
PCSI Programming Celebrates Seniors, 1987

Founded in 1983, PCSI has been the Community Action Agency for the City of Pittsburgh for over 40 years. Annual Reports across the decades reflect PCSI’s commitment to serving our neighbors in need with programs that are responsive, innovative, and effective.

Annual Reports Archive

  • 2012 Annual Report
  • 2007 Annual Report
  • 2006 Annual Report
  • 2000 Annual Report
  • 1991 Annual Report
  • 1987 Annual Report

“Community action, as its name implies, is local action. We depend completely on local communities to come to Washington with their own programs of combating poverty, in the ways that they see fit to do it, in their own hometown.”

Sargent Shriver, Founding Director of the federal Office of Economic Opportunity

  • About PCSI
    • History of Community Action
    • Health Related Social Needs
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff Members
    • Partners + Supporters
    • Publications

CONTACT US

Main Office (North Oakland)
249 N. Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm

Food Pantry Hours
Mon-Fri, 10 am-4 pm or by appointment

Phone: 412-904-4700
Fax: 412-904-2575

GETTING HERE

Accessible by the 71A, 71C, 82, 54, 93, and P3 Bus Routes.

Free parking on site.

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H.H.S. Funding Notice: This website is supported by Grant Number 93.569 (Community Services Block Grant) from the Office of Community Services within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families or the Office of Community Services.