About Us

GOAL:  NFEDC's two major goals throughout all of our programs are to create wealth and build leaders. Prerequisites to community change must be interpersonal and personal changes. All of our programs are learning arenas for Education, Empowerment, and Development. Our Board and Staff have successfully been elected to officially work to change the impoverished conditions that so many people endure in Gadsden County, FL.

OBJECTIVE:  Create opportunities to assist families in building wealth by providing community development.

NFEDC began in May of 1986 as Project Hope, a program organized by poor women to alleviate the thirty-seven percent (37%) illiteracy in Gadsden County. Many participants in past programs such as Project Hope found it impossible to concentrate on their studies when hunger cramps their stomachs. The part solution was building a partnership with the local Presbyterian Church to give food to these needy families and others. In 1987, Project Hope was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization, and under the laws of the State of Florida as North Florida Educational Development Corporation.

In our attempt to alleviate the causes of poverty and alleviate the consciences of the masses, life does not have to be this way. We have learned that a new and just system must be created where resources and opportunities, are available to everyone. Our focus as an organization has been on the tangible needs of poor people. One major strategy has been the self-development of our constituency so they in turn can challenge and change the oppressive and entrenched political, economic, and social racial system in place for Gadsden County.