Executive Summary: Women Are Dreamers Too is a statewide 501(C) (3) organization, which spearheads efforts to create a coordinated hunger prevention after school children services, affordable housing counseling, and financial literacy education programs to hundreds of women and veterans in State of Georgia, and boarder line counties of Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee who are veterans and underserved women
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Executive Summary: Women Are Dreamers Too is a statewide 501(C) (3) organization, which spearheads efforts to create a coordinated hunger prevention after school children services, affordable housing counseling, and financial literacy education programs to hundreds of women and veterans in State of Georgia, and boarder line counties of Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee who are veterans and underserved women
Studies from the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Center from Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University reported that in order for nonprofit entities to survive in our communities, they must collaborate, form partnerships to significantly impact the disadvantaged in the community. Most importantly, the study reveals that our greatest community asset and resource is the financial institution, and neighborhood corporations.
WADT Microenterprise Center leaders recognized the importance of this capacity building, partnership with Stanley Black & Decker. Inc. Community Economic Development, and Business, Community in Fulton/Gwinnett County to deliver a unique, multi-faceted microenterprise development program that leverages existing assets of the community through sharing of resources. This unique microenterprise partnership provides a viable strategy to alleviate poverty and achieve significant gains in the incomes and assets of many people left out of the economic mainstream. This model leverages the existing assets of the community, creates champions, and inclusion across several key organizations, and, results in a win-win situation for everyone
Over the past 25 years, microenterprise development has blossomed in the United States. The field includes microenterprise development organizations that provide training, technical assistance, and access to capital for low-income entrepreneurs. The goal of a microenterprise education program is to spur inclusion, economic growth and sustainability in underserved communities and impact the lives of disadvantaged Citizens.
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