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Letter from the ChairmanGreetings: It's always satisfying to watch a dream unfold, but even more profound to help actualize a vision. Establishing IMPACT Community Development Corporation (ICDC) in 2002 was aimed at addressing a broad range of complex factors affecting economically distressed youth, families,and communities. I am honored to say that we are well on our way toward meeting our objectives. Winners Wait, our teenage abstinence-only peer leadership program, has shaped the hearts of students in two metropolitan school districts to reject decisions that lead to pregnancy, abortion, STD's, AIDS/HIV, drugs, alcohol and tobacco use. Through Youth Leadership Institute (YLI), our free academic and leadership training program for high school students, we have helped numerous students improve grades, prepare for standardized tests, and build leadership skills through relevant community service projects. The Five Sector Alliance is our think-tank organization. It is designed to mobilize innovative strategies and essential reources to the five sectors of society - The Business Sector, The Education Sector; The Family Sector; The Political Sector; and The Religious Sector. Through the Alliance, we are committed to galvanizing the expertise of leaders from each sector to create strategies that result in a wholesome society that is constantly being transformed and enhanced. The Abigail Project is aimed at poviding a safe, nurturing environment that promotes healing and self-sufficiency for victims of domestic violence. Through a $1.05 million Shelter Support grant from The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, The Abigail Project Transitional Living Facility will serve female victims of domestic violence and their children in Essex and Morris Counties. While ICDC serves as the vehicle driving these and future initiatives, the organization is fueled by caring and compassionate people. These people recognize that meeting societal needs is part of the responsibility of every leader. These people support their broadening communities by giving of their time, resources, and commitment. These people, endued with advanced talents and professional expertise, willingly make legacy-building endowments to toward providing a better, stronger, and richer society. I believe that as we all join hands in the enhancement of society - through a conducive, results-oriented organization such at ICDC - we will each become one of these people. Sincerely, Dr. David Ireland | |||||||||||
