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Our Mission:
The mission of The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland is to create
positive outcomes in the lives of low-income people.
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.
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ABOUT
The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland was founded in June of 1966 as a grass roots movement serving low-income people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland (ECGC) was started in Cleveland, Ohio by a small group of welfare recipients participating in a walk from Cleveland to Columbus. The purpose of the walk was to dramatize the conditions of low-income people and to demand that all persons in need of assistance have their basic needs met and their human dignity be upheld in the process. In 1972, the agency became a private non-profit agency funded by United Way and since then, has serviced and advocated for thousands of low-income people. |