The Community Hub is a social venture that aims to empower youth through technology, arts, environmental, and enterprise programming tailored to local socio-economic realities. The initiative emphasizes the importance of nurturing environments and the development of essential skills for future employability, creativity, and collaboration. By providing professional support and engaging programming, the Hub seeks to facilitate transformative experiences for individuals and their communities.

1. The
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2. Is….
• The Community HUB™ is a social venture which
combines the passion of a social mission with an image
of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination
• The HUB aims to facilitate the development of especially
youth, through the offering of technology, arts,
environmental and enterprise-based programming
relevant to the current local cultural and socio-economic
realities of the areas in which we operate.
“We believe the young people must want to live
first, before we can teach them math and english”
(Bill Strickland)

3. Our Beliefs
Environment is Important
• “We believe that if we have nurturing environments, we
should also have nurturing people.” Bill Strickland CEO
Manchester Bidwell Corporation
• We model respect for the people we serve, provide well
trained staff, value inclusiveness, and act as role
models, mentors and way-makers.
• We also seek to provide hands-on education esp. to
young people w.r.t the natural environmental; influencing
deeper values and shaping behaviors toward a more
environmentally friendly stance
“ The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation
of a crisis of mind and spirit” (Lynton K Caldwell)

4. Our Beliefs
Technology prepares us for the future
• “While technology has the potential to act as a great
leveler, it can also be a dramatic amplifier of inequality”.*
• Technology provides:
– The tools of literacy in the
modern world
– Platforms for self-expression
– Access to knowledge and
awareness
– Communication/information
exchange
* Quote from Community HUB Strategic Plan (2008)

5. Our Beliefs
Enterprise makes us sustainable
• “we seek to build higher-order employability, thinking, problem
solving and decision-making skills, and social skills such as
dependability, positive attitude and cooperativeness.”*
Enterprise builds:
– Collaboration, teamwork,
organization and time-
management skills
– an appreciation of the
interdependency among
individuals, communities and
the environment
* Quote from Community HUB Strategic Plan (2008)

6. Our Beliefs
Art makes us human
• “HUBs will offer to our clients an atmosphere and
environment of discovery giving them the opportunity to
develop their innate abilities to critically think, invent and
improvise”.
• Art teaches:
– Self expression and the creative process
– Sense of confidence and accomplishment
– Innovative, analytical and critical thinking
– Ways to connect and communicate with society
* Quote from Community HUB Strategic Plan (2008)

7. Our Theory of Change
• We believe that if we offer attractive programming
facilitated by professional and committed staff in the
context of a nurturing and well equipped
environment that participants will respond positively,
and will be given the opportunity to transform their
lives - permanently.
• These transformations can move from a personal
through to the community and national level.

8. We need your Support!
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good
men do nothing." Edmund Burke
• “One of the problems with the current societal and
economic paradigm is that inherently, the world’s best
people (and resources) aren’t matched with the world’s
biggest problems”. Atiba Phillips