NESDCAP - Photo by Jeff Whetstone

Marcia Erickson, Executive Director
Lori Finnesand,
Deputy Director

104 Ash Street East
Sisseton, SD 57262

Phone: (605) 698-7654
Fax: (605) 698-3038

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Counties Served: Beadle, Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, McPherson, Marshall, Potter, Roberts, Spink, Stanley, Sully, and Walworth

Incorporated: 1966

Photo by Jeff Whetstone

The Northeast South Dakota Community Action Program (NESDCAP), established in 1966, serves a seventeen-county area that covers 18,688 square miles and includes 120,810 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 provides a wide array of services, including energy assistance, emergency assistance, weatherization, housing preservation.NESDCAP - Photo by Adam Fernandez

NESDCAP also serves as staff for the Northeast South Dakota Economic Corporation (NESDEC), a sister corporation that provides economic development support.  NESDEC's 22-county service 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 www.nesdcap.org/.

NESDCAP Service Area

Congressional Representative: Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D)

Senators: Tim Johnson (D), John Thune (D)


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