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
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