Organizing Neighborhood Equity

Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE-DC) is providing leadership for the Black United Congress (BUC), an alliance of community, faith, and youth organizations and local unions to confront the high rates of unemployment and poverty in D.C's African American community. The BUC has developed a comprehensive jobs and economic justice program focused on securing living wage jobs for minority residents in upcoming major economic development projects with public subsidies in the nation's capital. ONE DC estimates that some 30,000 new construction related and permanent jobs will be created with these projects.

Structural Unemployment in African American communities across the country, where unemployment rates are often more than double those for other ethnic groups, demands strategic actions and campaigns to win to living wage jobs. ONE-DC represents one such campaign that is only just beginning, but which holds promise for significant results.

2011 grant: $30,000 for organizing African American workers to access jobs in construction industry

Related to: Independent Worker Organizing; Ending Structural Unemployment

Visit the ONE-DC website at www.onedconline.org.