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Causes: Economic Development
Mission: To allieviate poverty and its effects on the local community and to provide education. The organization operates as a local economic development corporation, providing funding to local businesses, job training & education, business counseling, community services, and similar activities to relieve poverty in economically depressed areas.
Programs: Texas offenders re-entry initiative (tori): to aide and assist ex-offenders in transitioning back into society by providing employment training, counseling and placement services as well as transitional housing.
economic development: business network, conferences, and projects that facilitate business and economic growth, job training and education, and combat community deterioration.
conference: megafest in dallas, texas, a multi-day community outreach festival featuring empowerment sessions and entertainment activities.
miscellaneous programs including project 2000: development of a 231 acre learning campus in the southern sector of dallas that will facilitate economic and community development.