Hill Country Community Action is a private, non-profit corporation chartered under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act. Application to the Office of Economic Opportunity to form a Community Action Agency comprised of San Saba, Mills, Llano, and Mason Counties was submitted in July 1965. On April 21, 1966 the application was approved to establish this agency. In May 1975, Hill Country Community Action was also granted recognition as the Community Action Agency to serve the additional counties of Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas and Milam.
The purpose of the Agency is to promote the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment of families and individuals in our service area to achieve economic self-sufficiency and maintain personal independence.
The Board of Directors and the administrative staff seek funding for programs from national, regional, state, and local levels in order to continue on-going programs and expand operations. These many resources enable us to provide services to the low-income, elderly, and underprivileged within our service area. The governing body of the Agency is a 37-member Board of Directors to whom the Executive Director is directly responsible for the operation, direction, and management of the Agency. The members of the Board of Directors come from four different categories of membership representing a substantial cross-section of the population of the nine county area. Twelve members of the board are public officials or their designated representatives. Twelve members are representatives of low-income, and twelve members are representatives of civic, social, professional, business, religious and fraternal organizations within the counties. The Local Advisory Committees in each county democratically select these members. One member is the chair of the Head Start Policy Council.
Hill Country Community Action does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or veteran's status in admission or access to or treatment or employment in its programs or activities.