ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Economic Empowerment
When: 2nd MONDAY of the month.
Time: 6:30 -8:00pm 
Location:
1424 Fulton Street, (nr Brooklyn Ave)

The Economic Empowerment Committee is responsible for implementing local efforts, and supports national programs to preserve and expand economic empowerment among African-Americans and other communities of color. Implementing activities to stimulate employment opportunities and promote home ownership among African-Americans and other minority groups are essential to the committee's work. The Economic Empowerment Committee's activities include:

- researching and establishing relationships with private and public companies
- supporting the work of the National Office in monitoring the progress and activity of private and public companies
- implementing local efforts to promote the growth of African-American and minority business ownership
- increasing employment and job creation
- encouraging business development and home ownership.
CONTACT THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
JOHN FLATEAU, PH.D.
Email: jflat@pipeline.com
 

John Flateau is the dean of external relations at Medgar Evers College, a senior college of the City University of New York in Brooklyn, headed by President Edison O. Jackson. He previously served as executive director of the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy , adjunct professor in public administration, and has lectured at numerous universities. Prior positions include chief of staff to Mayor David N. Dinkins, senior vice president of the NYS Urban Development Corporation, and executive director of the NYS Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus. He authored The Prison Industrial Complex: Race, Crime and Justice in New York (DuBois Bunche Center, 1996) and co-authored Blackout: Media Ownership Concentration and the Future of Black Radi (DuBois Bunche Center, 1997). He is an expert in urban policy, community development, voting rights and redistricting, and campaigns and elections. He is a media commentator and consultant to government, business, and nonprofit sectors. He is a leader in Brooklyn's empowerment zone effort and a citywide black awareness campaign for Census 2000.

 
 
 

 
 
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