Center for Community Change
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The Center for Community Change (CCC) is one of the larger community building organizations in the United States. It was founded in 1968 in response to a lot of the civil rights concerns of the 1960s. The Center for Community Change typically works in urban areas, especially communities of color, and attempts to form autonomous citizen-based groups to work on local issues of concern. It has, for example, had projects in New Orleans, Columbus, Ohio, and Kentucky.
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[edit] Fair Immigration Reform Movement
CCC launched the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) as its immigrant rights project in 2000. FIRM has acted as an advocacy umbrella for many organizations, helped build coalitions, and provided technical assistance. In January of 2007, FIRM collected signatures from 250 organizations nationwide supporting comprehensive immigration reform, addressed to majority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
