The People’s Checkpoint
In 2009, TCCR hopes to complete environmentally friendly construction on an already partially rehabilitated liquor store TCCR Co-Founder and Executive Director, Wilhelmina Lawson donated to the nonprofit. To afford the donation and achieve her goal of providing a job training and job placement center for the community, Ms. Lawson mortgaged her own home – the current administrative headquarters for TCCR - and put up money from her retirement fund.
Once final renovations are complete, The People’s Checkpoint will provide space for the expansion of TCCR’s services and full engagement of TCCR’s partnerships with the nearby Montello Early Childhood Development Center, which provides many community families with affordable, quality day care, supplemental education, and recreational activities; and with New Community Housing Development Organization (NCHDO), of which TCCR is a founding member. Through NCHDO, Ward 5 residents, officials, and agencies are working to cooperatively reclaim abandoned homes, develop new affordable housing, and help low-income families become first-time homeowners.
TCCR’s service expansions will offer pathways to sustainable economy (linking participants to work in progressive industries such as the “green-collar economy”), courses in sustainable education (health and nutrition classes will evolve to include cooking workshops and yoga for physical and mental fitness), and opportunities to create a sustainable community-wide environment (introducing rainwater gardening techniques and organizing access to affordable methods of energy efficiency).
If you are with an organization that would like to partner with our efforts, please contact us, your work is appreciated!
If you are interested in being a sponsor of the construction site or any of our programs and events, please contact us, your help is needed!
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