SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC

It is the vision of Springfield Partners for Community Action to become the most prominent local nonprofit organization in Springfield and the surrounding area. We are already growing with the needs of the community. We hope to offer still more financial services and educational programs to low-income families of our community, thereby better helping them achieve economic stability. In particular, we will focus on safe and affordable housing, employment/job supports, and high-quality, safe and affordable early education and care.

Springfield Partners would like to transform its operation into a One-Stop Resource Center, so we can address the needs of the community. Springfield Partners will be the first step in making the Greater Springfield area a better place to live. We would like our partnerships with non-profits, businesses and individuals to be so effective that no one is turned away, that every person in need can either be served directly by our agency or routed seamlessly to the most appropriate resource.

Springfield Partners for Community Action is proud to be the first Community Action Agency in Western Massachusetts, established in 1964 shortly after the Economic Opportunity Act opened the way for a network of poverty-fighting agencies across the nation. It’s fitting that, regionally, Community Action came first to Springfield, MA, the ‘City of Firsts.’ Throughout the more than 50 years of its existence, through economic downturns, deregulation, policy changes and ideological shifts, Springfield Partners has maintained the optimism of those early years.

As part of this network of over one thousand Community Action Agencies currently operating in the United States, Springfield Partners shares a commitment, not merely to assist low-income people, but to empower them. Community Action Agencies focus on long-range solutions to poverty relief through education and training. They include low-income individuals in the community’s problem-solving and decision-making, by such means as volunteerism and representation on agency Boards of Directors.