Coastal Plain Area Economic Opportunity Authority, Inc. EOA

Coastal Plain Area EOA, inc. began as a Program Development Grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, and was awarded to the Coastal Plain Area Planning and Development Commission on January 14, 1965. This grant enabled a program developer to begin the groundwork for the development of a community organization to serve the poor and elderly.

This work led to the incorporation of the Coastal Plain Area Economic Opportunity Authority, Inc. on April 8, 1966, under the laws of the State of Georgia, as a private non-profit corporation serving the ten counties of the coastal plain area of Georgia. Effective April 1, 1966 the Agency superseded the area planning and development commission as the office of economic opportunity grantee.

Objective

As a human services program, Coastal Plain Area EOA, Inc. has invested over 110 million dollars of federal, state, and local funds during the past 36 years into the ten counties it serves to help the poor and elderly overcome the hardships and restraints of poverty. The Agency has been instrumental in mobilizing local, state, federal and private resources to keep services in step with the communities needs, and has provided funding and administrative expertise to numerous community services organizations and institutions in the coastal plain area.

Mission

In pursuance of this goal, it is the function and purpose of this corporation to provide services, assistance and other activities designed to reduce and eliminate poverty and its causes in the coastal plain area by developing employment opportunities, improving human performance, motivation and productivity; and generally by bettering the conditions under which people in the area live, learn and work.