Welcome to Heartland Community Action Agency, Inc.!

We have moved to our new address of 200 SW 4th ST.

We are a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation established under the Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The Act directs and empowers Community Action Agencies to address the causes and conditions of poverty at the local level. With a few shape-shifts and name changes, Heartland has been serving low and moderate-income families in Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, and Renville counties since 1965.

Heartland is governed by a fifteen-member “tri-partite” Board of Directors that geographically reflects our four-county service area. One-third of the members represent a low income perspective, one-third are elected public officials (county commissioners), and one-third represent diverse parts of the private sector.

The mission of Heartland is “to eliminate poverty and advocate for low-income families.” We operate under a transformational strategic plan that guides us to focus on strategies that move people out of poverty permanently (as opposed to “band-aiding” the conditions of poverty). Heartland’s “high-impact” strategies are to:

• build relationships across class and race lines
• strengthen community capacity to assure educational justice for all low-income children
• influence policy and resource development so that everyone has safe and affordable housing
• create a strategy-focused organization that acts as an effective catalyst to eliminate poverty
• develop a committed group of community leaders to end poverty.

No agency or interest alone could ever accomplish this vital mission of social justice. Community is needed. You are needed. Please take the time to look over our web-site, and contemplate how you might get involved.