Our Mission:

The mission of The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland is to create positive outcomes in the lives of low-income people. The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland accomplishes this through advocacy, community organizing, and developing programs to stimulate individual personal development.

Our Vision:

The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland will do this through advocacy, community organizing and developing programs to stimulate individual personal development. These activities will have an impact on reducing the complex set of conditions that would otherwise work to trap low-income people into a "cycle of poverty."

Our Strategies:

• Assist low-income people in understanding and participating in the empowerment process through which people who lack an equal share of valued resources gain greater access to and control over those resources.

• Establish strategic alliances with other economic, health, education, and social service organizations dedicated to fighting the factors that contribute to the conditions of poverty.

• Serve as an effective link between people who are in need of assistance ad the system of organizations and programs that deliver the assistance.

• Be at the “cutting edge” of low-income rights advocacy: the right to access and to participate in the processes that direct and control their society and community.

• Continue to prick the collective consciousness regarding basic human needs and offer viable mechanisms for addressing these needs.

   

Our Programs & Services That Support Our Mission:

• Family Support Services	Community Membership Council
  Project B.R.E.A.D.	The Computer Resource Center
  Lifeline Ohio Outreach	Community Education
  Please call our offices at (216) 432-4770 for additional information regarding these programs and services.  (d12506)   (We gratefully acknowledge the generous support from our funding partners: United Way of Greater Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, State of Ohio, USDA, United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Charter One Bank, The National Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Dominion Foundation, Roslyn Z. Wolf Fund for Youth, Family and Education, and AT & T.)