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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: The organizations mission as well as vision is to be a builder of communities. It recognizes that work is not done solely through one organization, but through collaboration and partnership building.
Programs: Asset mapping - the asset mapping strategy includes expamining target populations and regions, investigating issues, challenges and barriers comparison analysis examining root causes and obstructs research best practices, implementing demonstration projects and asset - building programs, examining policy and recommendations for developing sustainable solutions and programs in communities of color.
building health community - the war on poverty - florida, build a healthy community - childhood obesity prevention project, is a comprehensive approach to reducing the prevalence of obesity, promoting physical activity, providing education and practicing healthy meal choices. Provides youth in targeted underserved communities an opportunity to develop a community awareness campaign that promotes active lifestyles, healthy eating habits, community gardens and a youth summit. The bhc-cop model for sustainable community development engages the community in developing solutions that support diversity and inclusion, access to existing assets that promote food systems, use of built environment, policy change and economic growth strategies that emproves the health outcomes in low income communities.
bold - wfr implements a community engagement process which organizes parents to increase their effectiveness in raising responsible children, and healthy productive families. Wpf provides infrastructure and and a framework for increasing parental involvement and engagement with their children which will strengthen the base - the family unit. Improving childrens education literacy, promoting neighborhood safety and crime reduction, improving family organizing and advocacy, advocating for access to economic opportunities and employment while adding value to the community.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.