Change Happens
Washington DC Metro
Our Mission:
Empowering families to manifests their dreams and enhance their quality-of-life. Developing strategic plans for the future well-being of diverse communities; balance the physical, economic, and social needs of residents of impacted communities through planning, services, education, mentoring, affordable housing, and community development.
Some of our goals and objectives:
- To preserve and improve the community, through the implementation of a community plan, which contains goals, objectives and strategies for housing rehabilitation, increased public safety, expanded economic opportunities, improved community services, infrastructure, and enhanced environmental quality and aesthetics.
- To create a forum and an institution for addressing current and future community challenges through proactive planning and implementation.
- To promote grassroots leadership development as an effective means of creating and sustaining a revitalized community.
- To establish a network of youth departments and youth ministries.
- Provide consistent extracurricular activities for our youth and young adults to participate in for example; cultural field trips, late night fellowships (skating, bowling and concerts.)
- Redevelop communities by acquiring recreational facilities, that for whatever reason, have closed or degraded, renovate them physically, and provide spiritually motivated programs and activities.
- Obtain housing structures to be renovated and converted into spiritually based and spiritually staffed group homes, halfway houses, and crisis centers for youth and young adults in transition to independent living. Houses will also be used to provide opportunities for 1st time home buyers, as well as for individuals who are economically challenged in the direction of home ownership.
- Establish Chapters throughout the United States, centered around community collaborations, organizations and individuals inspired for positive change.
We Are The Dream – Change Happens
- Children, Youth, and Young Adult Initiatives
- Tutorial and Mentoring Programs
- Support Services for the families of incarcerated persons
- Re-Entry Programs
- Job Creation for Re-Entry Process
- Transitional Living for the economically challenged
- Job Training and Preparation
- Father Abraham School of the Arts
- 1st Time Home Buyer Training
- Trade School with New Business Start Up Support
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I Have A Dream!”
….”I have a dream…that one day this nation will rise up… live out the true meaning of its creed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream…that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream…that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream…that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.“
We Are The Dream!
Inspired by Change Happens, Houston Texas, Founder Rev. Leslie Smith II, “The Nonprofit Professor.”
Headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area.