Strategic Spartanburg

The Council for Community Empowerment

No community can prosper without a clear vision of what it wants and how it intends to get there. It is our desire that Community Indicators VI: Strategic Spartanburg will serve as a catalyst for grassroots action that will have a profound effect on our community.

The Council for Community Empowerment is a team of African-American citizens from across the spiritual, economic, educational, and political communities who have come together to redirect their energies, redefine expectations and reaffirm the abilities of that community to affect change in Spartanburg. Using the goals and indicators from this process, the Council will convene an African-American Family Summit in 2005 to rally the leadership of the community to design an implementation plan to address those issues that most effect the African-American community. By creating an agenda consistent with, and building on these indicators, the Summit will look at the barriers to overcome, the resources required, the building of grassroots ownership, all in an effort to offer a clear and compelling call for leadership that empowers the African-American community.