Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/nbcdi-and-nclr-advance-mutual-empowerment-strategy/5014159/
The key to mutual-empowerment is a set of actions taken by two or more organizations to extend the efficacy of work carried out by partnering organizations. In principle, mutual-empowerment serves to boost the organizations' effectiveness and scope of action through a collaborative cultivation of relationships and the concomitant preparation of the organization's work ecology. This is precisely the innovative approach that National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) has deployed in a promising partnership with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). At the helm of this unprecedented work is Melinda W. Green, director of the Early Childhood Leadership Resource Center (NBCDI). Other notable contributors to the development of this initiative are Evelyn K. Moore, president of NBCDI, and Anthony J. Colon, deputy vice president, Center for Community Educational Excellence (NCLR). A crucial addition to this list of credits are scores of remarkable community leaders in Miami, Los Angeles, New Jersey, and throughout the United States, too numerous to mention.This historic forum opened up a course of action for the Partners that has since included community forums, numerous other meetings with early childhood leaders, and the formation of community task forces. These critical interventions are underway in three sites, and are laying ...