Having demonstrated the ability to get people to register to vote, we will now turn our efforts to the other two prongs of voter empowerment - voter education, and voter turnout. We want to create more enlightened and motivated citizenry. Following educational opportunity is educational excellence. We must cause our young people to believe that they have the opportunity to excel. A logical extension of the Civil Rights gains is Economic Empowerment.
American development is still the lack of proper access to capital and credit.
To address this point head-on in our community, we will create an economic Development Committee to work with banking and financial institutions and to educate our community on the value of the circular flow of capital within our community. Additionally, we will organize efforts to expand minority businesses and companies and stress fair share access to vendor and supplier opportunities. We will organize a Youth Branch and recruit young people aggressively. When we are successful we will place them in positions to learn and demonstrate competencies in planning, organizing and carrying out a full youth program agenda. Beginning in March, we will resume our Call to Leadership forums.