Woodson Center has headquarters in Washington, DC, but operates throughout the nation to help community and faith-based organizations with training, technical assistance, and linkages to sources of support. The Center chronicles and interprets their experiences to make recommendations for public policy and works to remove barriers that hamper their efforts to solve societal problems. The Woodson C
enter has provided training to more than 2600 leaders of grassroots organizations in 39 states. The principles on which Woodson Center was founded are:
1) Low-income individuals and neighborhood-based organizations should play a central role in the design and implementation of programs to address the problems of their communities;
2) An effective approach to societal problems must be driven by the same principles that function in the market economy, recognizing the importance of competition, entrepreneurship, cost efficiency, and an expectation of return on investment; and
3) Value-generating and faith-based initiatives are uniquely qualified to address problems of poverty that are related to behavior and life choices.
