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Marcia Erickson, Executive Director
104 Ash Street East
Sisseton, SD 57262
Phone: (605) 698-7654
Fax: (605) 698-3038
Email
Website
Counties Served:
Beadle, Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand,
Hyde, Hughes, McPherson, Marshall, Potter, Roberts,
Spink, Stanley, Sully, and Walworth
Incorporated: 1966
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The Northeast South Dakota Community Action Program (NESDCAP),
established in 1966, serves a ten-county area that
covers 19,035 square miles and includes 127,377 people.
No county in its service area has a population greater
than 50,000, and the population earns less than 80% of
the median income. The majority of the
population lives on farms or in small, farm-oriented
communities, and agriculture forms the base of the
area’s economy. NESDCAP’s mission is "to be responsive to the needs of low-income
residents and serve as an advocate and vehicle for community interests and concerns in the geographic area." To meet this
goal, NESDCAP provides a wide array of services,
including energy assistance, emergency assistance,
weatherization, housing preservation, and homeless
programs.
NESDCAP also serves as staff for the Northeast South
Dakota Economic Corporation (NESDEC), a sister
corporation that provides economic development support
throughout NESDCAP’s service area and to an additional
12 counties. This 22-county area has an overall
average poverty rate of just under 20 percent (19.28%).
The area includes the Lake Traverse Reservation on which
3,000 members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe live.
To learn more about NESDCAP and NESDEC, visit http://nesdcap.org/.
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