2025 Year in Review
A Milestone Year for CAAP and the Network We Serve
Fifty years.
Half a century of action, advocacy, and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Community Action Agencies across Pennsylvania.
2025 wasn’t just a milestone year for CAAP; it was a year that reminded us why this network exists in the first place: to build sustainable infrastructure, amplify local innovation, and ensure Pennsylvania families have the resources, relationships, and support needed to thrive.
Below is a look back at the moments, milestones, and movements that shaped this landmark anniversary year.
🎉 Celebrating CAAP’s 50th Anniversary: Five Decades of Showing Up
This year marked CAAP’s 50th anniversary: a celebration of the statewide movement that began in 1975 and has grown into a powerful collective voice for the 42 Community Action Agencies across Pennsylvania.
Our golden-year theme echoed across everything we touched:
stronger systems, stronger partnerships, stronger communities.
From member spotlights to agency celebrations to storytelling across the network, the year-long anniversary became a reminder of what Community Action does best: respond, adapt, innovate, and lead.
The 2025 Impact Report: Telling the Story of Our Statewide Strength
During the 2025 CAAP Conference, we debuted a major milestone: the 2025 Impact Report, which captures data, stories, statewide outcomes, and the collective impact of the Community Action network across Pennsylvania.
The report reflects themes woven throughout the year:
the power of local leadership
the value of prevention
the measurable outcomes of long-term work
and the resilience of agencies during a challenging state budget environment
Unveiling CAAP’s Updated Value Statement
Also launched during Conference week was CAAP’s newly updated Value Statement for Alignment to Healthcare. This key document strengthens the case for partnership between Community Action and Pennsylvania’s healthcare systems.
The updated statement helps:
clarify the shared goals between CAAs and healthcare
highlight the role of Community Action in addressing the social drivers of health
position agencies as essential partners in prevention and wraparound care
Navigating a Challenging Budget Year
2025 brought a difficult state budget season — one that required persistent advocacy, unified messaging, and a clear articulation of Community Action’s value to policymakers.
Thanks to the groundwork CAAP laid in previous years, including:
strengthening partnerships with DHS
investing in advocacy tools and statewide messaging
building a strong relationship with Novak Strategic Advisors
partnering with a coalition of critical service providers to showcase the power of nonprofits
hiring a Director of Public Policy to help coordinate more effective advocacy efforts on a local level
2025 showed us that advocacy is the backbone of our network, strengthened through consistent effort and collective resolve.
Spring Summit & Fall Conference: Investing in People, Systems & Strategy
2025 Spring Summit
Centered around leadership, equity, and the future of Community Action, the Summit brought together agency teams from across the state for learning, community building, and honest conversation about Pennsylvania’s most pressing challenges.
2025 CAAP Conference
Held in October, the Conference became a focal point of the anniversary year — not only because it gathered the network together in Lancaster, but because it showcased the depth, talent, and innovation happening across Pennsylvania.
Several major announcements debuted at Conference, including:
The 2025 Impact Report
The updated CAAP Value Statement
A new slate of CAAPLearn courses
New statewide partnerships and initiatives
Major reflections and goals shared during the Plenary Session
Plenary 2025: A Network Preparing for Its Next Chapter
The Plenary Session, featuring CAAP CEO, Beck Moore, and CAAP Board Chair, Megan Shreve, offered a powerful, honest look at where Community Action has been and where it’s going.
Key themes from the Plenary included:
✔ Rapid, strategic pivots when crisis hits
From ARPA investments to disaster case management in Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, and Union counties, CAAP demonstrated how readiness and relationships guide action.
✔ Major infrastructure investments
ARPA funds enabled statewide improvements that strengthened agency operations, training, and long-term sustainability.
✔ Building lasting advocacy capacity
CAAP expanded toolkits, member resources, and statewide messaging, including:
PA State Reps Profile
Press Release & Op-Ed Toolkit
Presentations Toolkit
Case for Support Template
LinkedIn Essentials Toolkit
✔ Growing statewide training through CAAP Learn
In 2025 alone:
Over 3,000 users
723 new users
665 courses completed
New offerings included:
Alzheimer’s and other Dementia
Connecting with Compassion (Customer Service)
Engage, Cultivate, Sustain (Board Engagement)
Process Mapping
Community Action & Healthcare Partnerships
✔ Advancing major initiatives
Plenary updates also highlighted:
PA Navigate
SHRM partnership
GrantStation access
Diaper Distribution Pilot (3,969 families served and 866,765 diapers provided)
The Plenary closed with a clear message:
We move further, faster, when we move together.
ThinkingCAAP: Elevating Frontline Voices Year-Round
2025 was also a milestone year for ThinkingCAAP — CAAP’s podcast dedicated to lifting up the stories, strategies, and lived expertise of the people who make Community Action work. With 25+ episodes and over 1,120 all-time downloads, the podcast has become a new platform for learning, leadership development, and frontline support across Pennsylvania.
Hosted by CAAP CEO Beck Moore and produced in partnership with Holloway Media Services, ThinkingCAAP highlights conversations about workplace culture, human-centered leadership, poverty myths, organizational strategy, and the realities staff face every day.
It’s another way CAAP is expanding access, amplifying the network, and investing in the people who carry this mission forward.
Looking Ahead to 2026: What’s Next?
From policy mapping to cross-sector partnerships, CAAP is poised to continue leading in areas such as:
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) innovation
statewide training
disaster response
healthcare alignment
advocacy and messaging
resource development
and future-shaping system redesign
The work ahead will require courage and collaboration.
But as 2025 showed, this network has both.
Closing Reflection
If this milestone year proved anything, it’s that Community Action remains one of Pennsylvania’s strongest engines for stability, resilience, and opportunity.
Fifty years in, our mission is both intact AND accelerating.