Quad-Area Community Action Agency Inc.

Quad-Area Community Action Agency Inc., a Louisiana-based nonprofit organization headquartered in Hammond, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering workforce development, early childhood education, volunteer senior services, and low-income family support programs to underserved populations across rural Louisiana. The organization holds no federal prime contracts; all federal funding flows through grant awards (51% as prime recipient, 49% as sub-recipient under state grantees), with no federal contract vehicles and no set-aside posture applicable to its grant-recipient status.

Quad-Area CAA's capability footprint centers on intergenerational and youth workforce programming. As a prime grant recipient, the organization manages the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), a $600,287 three-year award effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management, which engages persons aged 55 and older to provide tutoring and mentoring support to children with special needs or academic disadvantages in schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers. Quad-Area CAA also holds a $3.19 million five-year Head Start award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Head Start (CFDA 93.600), effective December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2030, funding comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and family engagement services to low-income families. In workforce development, the organization holds two YouthBuild Project Grants from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.274): a $1.3 million award (May 2, 2022, through September 1, 2025) and a $1.875 million award (June 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027), both providing pre-apprenticeship training, occupational skills development, and employment assistance to at-risk youth ages 16-24 in construction and allied trades.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (31 awards) and the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (10 awards), accounting for 78% of all recent awards. The Corporation for National and Community Service splits across its Office of Grants Management (7 awards) and the parent corporation entity (6 awards). Quad-Area CAA also serves the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families and 10 additional federal agencies across a portfolio spanning 74 total awards (prime and sub combined) and $85.7 million in obligated federal dollars since 2001.

Sub-recipient activity dominates the operational footprint. Quad-Area CAA receives monthly or quarterly pass-through sub-awards from the Louisiana Department of Administration for the Food and Nutrition Program for Louisiana Children (approximately 30 sub-awards spanning 2023 through 2026), and from Louisiana Works for youth development and community service programming. The organization also manages sub-awards for weatherization assistance and low-income housing rehabilitation, including work under the Weatherization Assistance Program sub-awarded through Louisiana Housing Corporation (January 9, 2025, whole-house retrofits across 731 units in 19 parishes with $7.67 million in Louisiana state funding) and housing construction sub-awards under YouthBuild Global, Inc. (August 15, 2023, and August 15, 2024).

Award activity has grown significantly — one award in 2022 to fifteen in 2024, with six awards added through July 2026. The organization's federal grant footprint is concentrated in low-income antipoverty and workforce programming, with all recent prime awards requiring statutory and budgetary matching contributions of 10 to 20 percent and compliance with federal performance metrics for school readiness, employment placement, and volunteer service delivery.