• Home
• Getting Started
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• How to Use This Web Site
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Fact Sheets
  • Basic Facts
  • Trends
  • US vs. the World
  • Poverty
  • The Economy
  • System as Racist
  • System as Anti-Youth
  • System as Anti-Queer
  • System as Anti-Women
  • System as Anti-Immigrant
  • Violence
  • Consequences
  • Timeline & History
• Overview
• Conservative Agendas
  • Tough on Crime Movement
  • Criminalizing the Reservation
  • Faith & Religion
  • Women & Reproductive Rights
  • War on Terrorism & Immigrants
  • Youth
  • Victims' Rights
  • Profits from Incarceration
  • Conservative Infrastructure
• Organizing Advice
• Resources
• Endnotes
• Download Chapters

Resources

National Center for Neighborhood Enterprises

1424 16th St, NW, Washington, DC, 20036, (202) 518-6500

http://www.ncne.com
A non-profit organization that supports grassroots initiatives in low-income neighborhoods, focusing particularly on youth violence, crime, and drug use, among other issues. Evaluates the work of faithbased and community groups and “interprets their experiences for public policy.” While NCNE does not see itself as a religious organization (and says that its grassroots groups represent a number of faiths), they do feel that the “most effective neighborhood organizations are faith-based.” The NCNE holds as a core belief the idea that faith-based initiatives are “uniquely qualified” to address problems related to “behavior and life choices.” Its president, Robert Woodson, has been called the “godfather of the compassionate conservative movement.” Supports the “Violence-Free Zones” initiative (www.violencefreezones. com), in which it provides assistance to grassroots organizations and neighborhood leaders who are committed to intervening and helping youth become “ambassadors of peace” rather than part of the violence in their communities. They see this “restoration of civil order” as a necessary base to revitalize communities. Nearly all of the leaders NCNE works with as part if this initiative are “God-centered people whose service is an expression of their faith.”