Sentence examples for action agency from inspiring English sources

After his defeat, Mr. Berry created a community action agency in Cincinnati.

But it had seldom been an action agency, like the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, until W.H.O.

The Nixon administration created the ACTION agency (Federal Domestic Volunteer Agency), which administered several volunteer organizations, including the Peace Corps and VISTA.

After a puncture obliges us to transfer to another police truck we reach the tented camp where 680 workers recruited by the government's Social Action agency are based.

"One of the boys who had to practically be dragged in by his probation officer when our program started six weeks ago has become one of the most enthusiastic workers," said Nancy Micloskey, social services manager at Bristol Community Organization, a non-profit community action agency that is in partnership with the state to run the boat-building program.

Prior to teaching, Professor Schultz also served as a city director of code enforcement, zoning, and planning in Binghamton, NY, and worked as a housing and economic planner for a community action agency.

Community action agencies received $5 billion in stimulus funds to train people to weatherize homes.

Community action agencies are frequently the only force holding families together, a critical element in fostering school readiness.

More than 20 million people receive some kind of assistance from community action agencies over the course of a year.

"Every major city and many rural communities now have community action agencies that began with the juvenile delinquency program and grew into the broader mission of fighting poverty".

Community action agencies were established decades ago to undergird the fight against poverty throughout the U.S., in big cities, small towns, rural areas — wherever there were people in trouble.