LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT / CEO

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Wel­come to SERA Inc.’s web­site.  Our site will pro­vide you with valu­able infor­ma­tion about South­east Raleigh Assem­bly, our pro­grams, part­ners, mis­sion and val­ues as well as how you can join us as we com­mit to the change nec­es­sary to enhance the qual­ity of lives for South­east Raleigh citizens.

Change is what SERA, Inc. is all about – beau­ti­ful and trans­for­ma­tive change, both per­sonal and com­mu­nity trans­for­ma­tion.  We are now a flag­ship non­profit orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to facil­i­tate com­mu­nity capac­ity build­ing in its most authen­tic sense, eco­nomic devel­op­ment, sus­tain­abil­ity, rela­tion­ship build­ing in its most authen­tic sense, eco­nomic devel­op­ment, sus­tain­abil­ity, rela­tion­ship build­ing with com­mu­nity and busi­ness, and indi­vid­ual cit­i­zen empow­er­ment all designed to enhance the qual­ity of life for South­east Raleigh res­i­dents.  Our work is to pro­vide advo­cacy, edu­ca­tion, out­reach, col­lab­o­ra­tive part­ner­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, train­ing and sta­tic resources to indi­vid­u­als and other non-profits within South­east Raleigh, as well as for profit busi­nesses within South­east Raleigh’s vibrant communities.

When a com­mu­nity expe­ri­ences an enhanced qual­ity of life for its res­i­dents, it expe­ri­ences on some lev­els an increase in com­mu­nity wealth.  When more South­east Raleigh res­i­dents become employed some of those jobs will be located through­out the Tri­an­gle; when stu­dents are able to suc­cess­fully com­plete high school and move on to insti­tu­tions of higher learn­ing, some of those colleges/universities will be in other areas of the Tri­an­gle and the state.  When more peo­ple are able to con­sume goods as a result of hav­ing income to spend, com­mu­nity wealth will be felt not only in South­east Raleigh, but through­out the Tri­an­gle and in other parts of North Car­olina as well.  It is what I call the “rever­ber­a­tion affect,” and SERA, Inc. sees itself as an agent of change to help increase wealth, inde­pen­dence, self-sufficiency, and a sense of empow­er­ment.  With ini­tia­tives such as our Women and Money series, Rela­tion­ship Based Con­sump­tion pro­gram, Youth Ambas­sador and Jew­els and Gems pro­grams, as well as our focus on improv­ing health and well­be­ing through our Danc­ing N the Park and Health­care Dis­par­i­ties pro­gram, we are seek­ing to address com­mu­nity needs in a holis­tic fash­ion.  These are just some of our offer­ings and all of these efforts have come about after lis­ten­ing to what active and engaged com­mu­nity mem­bers and busi­nesses, through our grass­roots forums have told us needs to change.   We invite you to spend some time on our web­site and become inti­mately famil­iar with what we are doing!

Our desire is to get you involved “what can I do?”  Is the ques­tion you might ask.  There is in fact much you can do to cre­ate the change needed in our com­mu­nity and neigh­bor­hoods in part­ner­ship with SERA Inc.  You as a com­mu­nity mem­ber or busi­ness owner/leader in order to effect real change one must see the value in not only iden­ti­fy­ing what needs to be changed or enhanced, but being com­mit­ted to being part of the change you would like to see.  It is very easy to express what needs to change.  The part that is a bit harder is com­mit­ting to the “doing.”  Tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity to find out where indi­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tions are needed and mak­ing a pledge to take directed action and stick to it.  SERA, Inc. is com­mit­ted to help­ing cit­i­zens who want to see change hap­pen become change agents in a way that will be mean­ing­ful to them.  Every­one within the com­mu­nity has some­thing to give and some way to serve in col­lab­o­ra­tion with others.

Because SERA, Inc.’s suc­cess is mis­sion dri­ven and the mis­sion is mea­sur­able, every­thing we do is out­come based, and will be focused solely on effi­cient and effec­tive com­mu­nity assess­ment, engage­ment, part­ner­ship build­ing and ser­vice deliv­ery.  We are part­ners and allies to res­i­dents and those that do busi­ness within South­east Raleigh.  SERA, Inc. can only be suc­cess­ful if the cit­i­zenry is engaged and com­mit­ted to our work as com­mu­nity change conduits.

SERA, Inc. can­not and will not be suc­cess­ful if our com­mu­ni­ties do not pro­vide us with not only artic­u­lated goals and desires, but the com­mit­ment and per­son power to actu­al­ize the goals and objec­tives we set.  Get­ting every­one to join together from the unem­ployed, those entrenched in poverty, mid­dle class res­i­dents, com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions such as insti­tu­tions of higher learn­ing, k-12 edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions, the med­ical com­mu­nity, other non-profits, and for profit busi­nesses both large and small, to put their nose to the grind­stone is the only way we can affect change.  Don’t be afraid of change, be part of it!  With our focus on com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing and com­mu­nity engage­ment, we can accom­plish all of the goals set before us and we will.
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