For over 23 years, the CEDC has focused on understanding residents’ and businesses’ needs through active engagement within the community. It has been a priority of the CEDC to achieve resident, stakeholder, and Board community engagement, build planning momentum, and mobilize a broader community participation base to solve problems, build strategies, and plan for the future community.
Community mission: The CEDC aims to bridge new immigrants and long-term residents to find their way to economic opportunity.
Community vision: To provide a three-prong “people-centered asset-based” pathway where all those in the immigrant community have access to essential resources and skill-building, connections within the community through collaboration, and work collaboratively towards longer-term community change and resilience.
The CEDC’s ultimate goal is an active, vibrant community that gets its fair share of public and private services and provides opportunities for all.
