Records of the Community Action Program Office, (a subgroup introduction.).

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Records of the Community Action Program Office, (a subgroup introduction.).

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Project Head Start (U.S.)

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United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Community Action Program.

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The Community Action Program (CAP) operated on the principle that poor persons should be involved in the development and operation of the programs that were intended to help them. Therefore, under CAP, the Federal Government made grants to public or private nonporofit organizations that were broadly representative of the community. These groups were authorized to coordinate antipoverty programs developed locally for housing, health, civil rights, employment, training, and education....