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Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Our work has carried Southern Echo staff into 12 additional states across the south and southwest.

Southern Echo's underlying goal is to empower local communities through effective community organizing work, in order to create a process through which community people can build the broad-based organizations necessary to hold the political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

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Echo Announces Mott-ISO RFP

Southern Echo, Inc. is now accepting applications for our small grants program for mature grassroots community-based organizations engaged in community organizing work.

The primary purpose of this program is to strengthen low-income communities and neighborhoods by investing in the development of local leaders through the community organizing process.

Grants of up to $20,000 (note that the average grant size is $15,000.00) are awarded, supported by training and technical assistance, to strengthen community organizing groups and help them to connect to networks and coalitions.

Click HERE to access the cover sheet for the grant application. Click HERE to access the application and guidelines.

All applications must be postmarked by May 22, 2012.

This article was posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 12:50 pm and is filed under News.