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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.

“08/01/2010″ to “09/30/2010″ - Redistricting Public Hearings – Legislative Reapportionment Committee will hold public hearings to elicit public input concerning adoption of guidelines to redistrict the Congressional, Legislative and Judicial offices in 2011.

“08/14/2010″ - Convening on School Consolidation – Southern Echo and MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable will hold convening at MS Valley State Univ. regarding school consolidation as the wrong path in Mississippi and which strategies are preferable.

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Thanks to a software grant from ESRI, we are able to provide the many maps posted on our website.

To create our maps we gather data from a wide variety of sources, including: the US Census Bureau, State Department of Education Web Sites, State Environmental Agencies, ESRI’s DVD map data, ESRI’s Geography Network Archive, and State and Local GIS archives of down-loadable GIS data.

Where necessary we convert pdf, xls, or ascii data into dbase tables.

We join data from dbase tables to ESRI or other Source GIS data using ESRI’s granted software.

We conduct analysis of the data both visually and within tabular processes of record selection.

We code new variables into GIS feature tables using visual, manual, select by feature, and select by location processes and based on our analysis.

We generate maps representative of the data and our analysis.

We train our organizational members on how to conduct these processes, produce these materials and maps and how to present this information in public forums.

We train our organizational members and members of other like organizations on how to use ESRI granted Software.

We also use the material we generate to train people on public policy work and on the power of GIS as a tool that supports that work.