OUR PRIMARY FOCUS will be to uphold the principles that those citizens who will benefit directly from programs should be realistically involved in their planning and operation. We will also urge that disadvantaged people’s potential for contributing to programs, formulating for them and the greater community, be recognized and accepted as a means of ending their isolation, economically, psychologically and physically from the larger society.
AS A COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, primarily concerned with Community Organization, The Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County, Inc., has special responsibility to motivate other community social agencies and institutions to enlist the participation of deprived and alienated members of Nassau County in plans and programs, for successfully dealing with social problems and problems of poverty.
THE ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS, under the Federal Economic Opportunity Act, and the successor Community Development Block Grant, have generally been viewed by our citizens as the singularly responsible agency, in relation to poverty. We must work towards having concern shared by leaders in every sector of the population, in order to effect lasting and permanent social change. We agree that the larger goals for the conquest of poverty in this county be shared and sought by its leaders; not only in the Federal Government but State, City, County and Village government also.
