Minnesota Community Action Partnership --

Minnesota Community Action Partnership
(MinnCAP) is made up of member organizations in communities across Minnesota. Our members are Community Action agencies that offer the last local line of defense for families in need.

Community Action agencies in your home town:

Help people move up in their career ladder (through job training, job search, and career development services)
Keep people warm and dry (through energy assistance and weatherization services);
Help the unemployed find work (through job training and application assistance);
Help families and seniors put food on the table (through food shelves and nutrition programs)
Give young children a healthy,

safe, start (through WIC, Head Start, crisis nursery, and child care programs);
Help in times of crisis (through emergency housing and financial assistance, counseling, and crisis nursery services);
Advocate for policy solutions that eliminate poverty in Minnesota.

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Minnesotans Care About Poverty Section Rule

Commission to End Poverty Section Rule

In 2006, Senator Hottinger and Representative Abeler introduced bills requesting the creation of an 18 member bi-partisan, bi-cameral commission to develop strategies to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020.

Click Here to go to the commission's Web site.