Wayne County Action Program, Inc.

Wayne County Action Program, Inc., doing business as Finger Lakes Community Action, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Lyons, New York that operates as a federal grant recipient and delivery-order contractor providing homeless housing services, senior support programs, tax counseling for elderly taxpayers, workforce development, and youth mentoring to federal agencies and state grantees. The organization competes full-and-open across both federal contracts and grants with no set-aside designations; recent work is concentrated in homeless veteran housing services under the Department of Veterans Affairs and community action grant programs from HUD, the Treasury, and AmeriCorps.

Wayne County Action Program operates primarily as a prime recipient (93% of recent awards) across eleven distinct federal agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 dominates both volume and dollar value, accounting for 22 awards valued at $2.1 million combined potential value, centered on temporary low-barrier housing and clinical stabilization for homeless veterans through a $270,100 multiple-award indefinite delivery contract running through December 2028. Representative VA work includes a $270,099 firm fixed price delivery order for homeless housing services at the Canandaigua VA Medical Center and related task orders through Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (awarded January 2024, completion December 2024 and extending into 2025). The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development follows with 19 awards under the Continuum of Care Program, providing transitional and supportive housing services. The Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service has awarded 18 grants under the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) cooperative agreement program, which trains volunteers to deliver free tax preparation and counseling to taxpayers age 60 and older; Wayne County Action Program runs TCE sites that achieve target filing and return-production metrics.

Beyond VA and HUD, Wayne County Action Program holds active grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service (16 combined awards) covering the Foster Grandparent Program, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), and an AmeriCorps Seniors demonstration grant funding 24 AmeriCorps volunteers providing companionship, transportation, nutritional support, and health education to approximately 120 seniors across Wayne, Ontario, and Seneca counties. The organization also holds a $999,827 Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance project grant under the STOP School Violence Program to deliver mentoring, vocational training, and cognitive-behavioral therapy support to over 1,700 students across seven rural Wayne County schools (awarded October 2022, completion September 2025). Additional grant recipients include the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start.

In its subrecipient role, Wayne County Action Program receives flow-through funding from the New York Department of State under the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program to combat poverty and increase self-sufficiency among low-income New Yorkers (sub-awards dated October 2022, October 2023, and October 2024). The organization holds positions on four VA indefinite delivery contracts supporting homeless veterans housing services, with six task orders each under contracts 36C24219D0031 and VA52814D0034, and four task orders under contract VA528P0858. Award volume has declined modestly — eight awards in 2021 to four in 2025 year-to-date — with four awards (including the homeless veteran housing IDC and related task orders) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete.