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To honor and recognize “A DECADE OF IMPACT”
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WHEREAS, Ohio’s Community Action Agencies were created when the Economic Opportunity Act was signed in 1948; and
WHEREAS, IMPACT Community Action is a Franklin County’s non-profit agency dedicated to piloting and creating innovative strategies that provide opportunities for vocational training and certification, career readiness, workforce development, asset development, computer literacy, financial freedom crisis intervention, and empowerment; and
WHEREAS, IMPACT Community Action’s mission is to reduce poverty by providing hope-inspiring help and real opportunities for independence, and offers customized programs designed to meet the unique needs of specific communities that move households from crisis to self-sufficiency; and
WHEREAS, IMPACT Community Action commemorates its tenth anniversary of serving as Franklin County’s Community Action Agency; over that decade the group has provided critical services to more than 150,000 individuals in Franklin County; and
WHEREAS IMPACT Community Action has provided critical services to the most vulnerable citizens and honors the “Promise of Community Action” which is to change people’s lives, improve communities, embody hope, and to make America a better place to live ; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this council hereby recognize “A DECADE OF IMPACT” and the contributions of IMPACT Community Action as an innovator that continues to create opportunities for persons to fulfill their greatest potential