Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc.

Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc. (UDMO) is one of 16 community action agencies (CAAs) in Iowa and one of approximately 1,000 community action agencies across the United States. CAAs are nonprofit private and public organizations that were established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America’s War on Poverty.

CAAs provide services to more than 13 million low-income people annually in 96 percent of the nation’s counties. During the 2021 fiscal year, UDMO served 18,979 individuals in 8,485 households in Northwest and North Central Iowa. Of these households, 66% (5,511 households) had incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level ($26,500 per year for a family of four).