Welcome !
Welcome to the Martin Luther King Jr. Business Empowerment Center located in a vacant historic building formerly an Envelope company.
We are a community-based operation focusing on Business Development, Business Incubation, Job Training and Placement. Clients are provided technical support and business training skills in the areas of accounting, cash management, employee relations, technology and business planning.
The Center offers attractive, quality office space, office equipment, supplies and furniture, conference rooms, internet access and secretarial staff resources to small, and start-up businesses.
Through the Martin Luther King Center, job seekers are provided counseling on how to properly complete a job application and how to improve their interviewing skills. The staff at the center provides encouragement and skill preparation for clients with low self-esteem and a history of unsuccessful interviews.
The Goals, Mission Statement and Vision.
Goals: To create an incubator to house, nurture, guide, instruct and empower micro businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs to successfully build and maintain their own business.
Mission: "Helping to provide a better quality of life in the underserved community through business development and culturally focused pre-employment training."
Vision: The vision of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Business Empowerment Center is to create a prosperous society composed of all its citizens participating in a global economy without the need for legistalation and without regard to race, creed, color, sexual orientation or gender.
Community Perspective: "Many years of attempts to legislate minority population into the mainstream of economic and entrepreneurial opportunities have failed to produce a totally integrated American society. America's economy is based on free enterprise. For American society to reach its full potential all of its citizens must be active participants." Rev. Richard Wright
"The most important community benefit of this project is the creation of an environment to foster new business opportunities for the low to moderate-income minority population of our region. We are about encouraging our community to become employers instead of employees, to become self sufficient instead of welfare dependent and to enter the global markets as competitors and not set-asides." Donata Martin
"The Center will serve as a model for individuals, groups and organizations within the community, city, state and assist in encouraging minorities to start a business. The Center will provide culture specific training, administrative and operating support for up to five years during the growth phase of a new business. Business owners will have an opportunity to rent operating space at reasonable rates where shared resources are available." Wallace Andrews
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