S C L C
OF JACKSONVILLE, FL
PROJECTS
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ECONOMICS
The SCLC of Jacksonville, Florida runs an evidence-based and highly professional economic program as a part of our Poor Peoples Campaign. We endeavor to create opportunities for businesses and individuals. Our focus will be to create equity in contracting and living wage jobs. The disparity in African-American contracting has become a major issue that the SCLC will address. We plan to gather professionals that will become a part of a robust program that will bring contractors together and assist them in successfully obtaining contracts. All businesses (of whatever racial and economic background) dedicated to our principles are welcome.
OUR ELDERS
Our elders are the protectors of our history and the advisors to the future. Let’s give them the utmost respect in their twilight years…
The SCLC of Jacksonville, Florida will run an evidence-based and highly professional elders program. We endeavor to create opportunities for elders to benefit from our partnerships with businesses, agencies and individuals whose expertise are elderly based. Our focus will be to provide seniors with a holistic avenue in which they can live their twilight years in dignity and respect. As the population of seniors increases we will ensure that none fall through the cracks. Our love for our elders will be action oriented and spiritually based. We plan to gather professionals that will become a part of a robust program that will bring services together and assist them in successfully obtaining benefits. All businesses (of whatever racial and economic background) dedicated to our principles are welcome.
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EDUCATION
The SCLC of Jacksonville, Florida seeks to make Duval County better by ensuring a focus on education. Education in today's world means being able to make a better living and understanding the importance of building wealth for our communities and for generations to come.
Our organization also seeks to end racism, violence and economic disparities in education - from pre-school to college. We organize around local issues that are important to children and adults as it relates to our objectives. Finally, we seek to mentor youth and promote events that are healthy for neighborhoods. Those events will bring different races together and provide creative educational strategies.
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SCLC WOMEN
Founded in 1979, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N., Inc., is an independent 501 (C) (3) nonprofit organization providing a diverse array of services to improve and empower at-risk and low-income families. Programs include: youth mentoring, domestic violence education, HIV/AIDS education, and computer training. Their Heritage Pride program hosts the annual Evelyn Gibson Lowery Civil Rights Heritage Tour through the cradle of the civil rights movement and has erected 13 monuments honoring civil rights icons.
SNCC
When a group does not have a voice, it will act out. Our youth are no different…
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. The SCLC and SNCC organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement on the freedom rides and marches.
The idea for a locally based, student-run organization was conceived when Ella Baker, a veteran civil rights organizer and an SCLC official, invited black college students (200) to their April 1960 meeting. SNCC also established Freedom Schools to teach children to read and to educate them to stand up for their rights. SNCC had organized black citizens to register to vote in Selma in 1963. The SCLC of Jacksonville organizED SNCC to give youth a voice.
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