Community Action Agency of St. Louis County, Inc. (d/b/a CAASTLC) is part of a national network of federally funded Community Action Agencies (CAAs), created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. CAAs administer various programs on community levels to assist low-income people out of poverty conditions. Nationwide, CAAs help 11.5 million people toward self-sufficiency. Community Action Agency of St. Louis County or CAASTLC is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit corporation that has provided services in St. Louis County for over 53 years. Originally incorporated as Metroplex, Inc. in 1968, CAASTLC was founded as a satellite agency of and administered by the Human Development Corporation of Metropolitan St. Louis. In 1978, Metroplex, Inc. became a separate designated entity to provide anti-poverty programs for St. Louis County, excluding Wellston. In 1996, the agency's name was changed to STEP, Inc. and, in 2003, STEP, Inc. became CAASTLC. Services are provided to over 22,000 low-income people in St. Louis County annually. The mission of CAASTLC, Inc. is to stabilize and enrich vulnerable households by instilling hope an creating pathways to empowerment. We are committed to helping the families and communities of St. Louis County transition from poverty to self-sufficiency for present and future generations.

Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City (CAAGKC), formerly United Services Community Action Agency, was incorporated December 14, 1978. Community Action Agencies are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty. CAAGKC is chartered by the State of Missouri, as a private, non-profit corporation, serving the counties of Jackson, Clay, and Platte. CAAGKC’s purpose is to provide stimulation and incentive for the three-county area to mobilize its resources and combat poverty through community action programs. CAAGKC’s mission is to assist low-income residents of Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties, Missouri in their efforts to become self-sufficient by providing programs and services to improve the quality of their lives and the opportunity to eliminate the causes of poverty. CAAGKC envisions communities where all people thrive and discrimination in all its forms is not present. We envision our agency as a state-of-the-art organization that has all the human, technological and material resources needed to best serve the disadvantaged men, women, and children of our community. We envision a nation where people have unrestrained opportunity and poverty is no longer a threat to the future of our children.

COMMON GOOD-NATURAL LIVING is a medical practice company based out of 215 HARRISON ST, Marshall, Missouri, United States.