Iowa Community Action Association - About SIEDA
Iowa Community Action Association - About SIEDA
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About SIEDA

SOUTH IOWA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (SIEDA)
SIEDA caters programs and provides social services in Appanoose, Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk, Mahaska, Van Buren and Wapello counties.  The association's foremost purpose concentrates on empowering people to achieve positive growth through community action.

Community Action Agencies are charged with the responsibility of identifying the unique needs of the poverty population within their communities and designing programs to meet those needs.  Although Community Action Agencies across the nation administer several similar programs, each agency has the ability to tailor its services to the needs of its local communities. 

SIEDA's programs are funded by a combination of federal and state grants, local funds, donations, client fees and private resoures.

HISTORY OF THE AGENCY
SIEDA was originally incorporated as a one-county program serving Wapello

County on July 6, 1965.  The original name of the agency was Wapello County Economic Development Association.
 
In December of that same year, Davis County joined the Association and it was renamed the Wapello-Davis County Economic Development Association.
 
March of 1967 brought the Wapello-Davis-Van Buren County Economic
Development Association followed closely by the addition of Jefferson, Keokuk and Mahaska Counties and the name of Sixco Economic Development Association. 
 
October of 1967 brought the seventh county (Appanoose County) and our current name - Southern Iowa Economic Development Association or SIEDA which has remained unchanged.
 
SIEDA is one of 18 Community Action Agencies covering the entire 99 counties of Iowa. Only two of the nineteen agencies are public agencies.   All of the other agencies, including SIEDA, are PRIVATE, NOT-FOR-PROFIT corporations.
 
Because the majority of SIEDA's funding comes from government sources, it is a common misconception that it is a public agency, not the private agency that it has always been.