Navigation Donate » The Intelligencer | Donate to Give A Christmas » About Us The mission of the Bucks County Opportunity Council is to reduce poverty and partner with the community to promote economic self-sufficiency. Our vision is to elevate the awareness of poverty, and to create and lead partnerships to make our community a "Bridges Out of Poverty" community. We strive to be a model of seamless case management and influence our community to make reducing poverty one of its priorities. The Bucks County Opportunity Council (BCOC) was founded in 1965 as a result of President Johnson's War on Poverty legislation. BCOC is a 501c3 non-profit Community Action Agency that serves low income families in Bucks County through a variety of programs. Community Action Agenices were created to address issues of poverty at the local level and BCOC is the only one in Bucks County. Part of BCOC's funding comes from the federal Community Services Block Grant, administered by the Office of Community Services and through the state office of Community and Economic Development. BCOC currently operates five programs in Bucks County: a food program, emergency services, home energy program, volunteer income tax assistance and economic self-sufficiency. BCOC is the lead food agency in Bucks County providing public and private donated food to over 60 food pantries and distribution sites. Our home energy program reduces home energy consumption and repairs heating systems for over 200 households each year, saving costs of high energy bills. Our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA) is a free tax program to help people get the maximum refund. It is run entirely by volunteers from our community and generates over a million dollars of refunds and saved fees annually. The Emergency Assistance program provides housing, utility, and basic needs assistance to low income residents facing a crisis and the Economic Self-Sufficiency program works with low income people to increase education and employment in order to be free of all government subsidies. Check out our latest Strategic Plan: Strategic Plan 2019-2023 Find out more how a gift to BCOC can make a difference: Case for Support View our 2019-2020 990 Tax Return: BCOC 990 Tax Return HOME BLOG CONTACT US WHO WE ARE I NEED HELP WITH SUPPORT US JOIN US SITEMAP LOGIN Copyright © 2021 bcoc.org Website Design & Hosting by IQnection Follow Us On Facebook Follow Us On Twitter Sign Up To Get Email Updates About Our Work »