Welcome to the website of the Contact Center!

We are a non-profit community organizing agency whose mission is to end poverty. We are a membership organization of low and moderate income people. Through the empowerment of our members, we work to bring about economic and social justice.

We work together through education and action to use our collective voice to effect positive social change. We provide leadership opportunities to low-income members to be the primary "change-makers."

Located in one of Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods, the Contact Center has a thirty-plus history of organizing. We work on the local, state and national level to be the grassroots voice on issues affecting our members. We work specifically on neighborhood issues in Over-the-Rhine of housing/tenant rights, resident safety concerns and welfare issues. In 1992 the Contact Center started the Cincinnati Welfare Rights Coalition to organize recipients around welfare issues to make changes in government policy. In 1995, the Contact Center started the Ohio Empowerment Coalition.

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Over-the-Rhine Community Festival August 6th 12 noon to 6pm in Washington Park

Safe Families Are Stable Families Latest update

RESPECT Campaign Wins Foot Patrols for Over-the-Rhine,

City Beat article on unfairness of tax breaks (Picture at top article further down)

City Beat article on RESPECT action

Project Vote! 15% increase in OTR turn-out

We firmly believe that in organizing ourselves we uphold the rights and dignity of all people.

MISSION

The Contact Center is a community-based, membership organization that strives to uphold the rights and dignity of all people. We work for a better life for all low and moderate-income peoples through grass-roots organizing, education and outreach around issues of housing, education, safety and income security.

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