Limited VolunteerOUR MISSION
On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law an Act that mobilized our nation’s human and financial resources to combat poverty in the United States.
This law created the Office of Economic Opportunity. As its goal, this central agency within the federal government set forth to “eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty” through the development, testing and operation of various urban and rural anti-poverty programs. The Office of Economic Opportunity was abolished in 1981, its programs have been scattered among other federal agencies, in particular the Department of Health and Human Services.