OUR COMPANY
ABOUT US
EmPower All
——— BASED IN NEWPORT NEWS, VA
EmPower All is a Community Consulting Firm with a diverse team of community partners that have strong educational, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, allowing us to work closely and successfully in disenfranchised communities afflicted by economic barriers and violence.
We work with government agencies, non-profit organizations, small businesses, and community led organizations to collaborate more effectively in order to improve quality of life and well-being. Our greatest impact comes from collaboration, and real sustainable change takes all of us doing good work in our respective fields.
EmPower All has become recognized as an important part of the "come as you are" approach to community engagement, violence prevention, and socioeconomic change. Our proactive engagement strategies have even proven to bring the over all crime rate down by 30% in our targeted communities!
About
My name is Yugonda Sample-Jones
During her service as a community liaison for the Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) grant, Yugonda experienced the lack of communication in her own disenfranchised neighborhood. She began walking door-to-door discussing reliable resources with neighbors. Yugonda found her passion was for not only organizing, but also connecting services to the people who need them most. She applied her community organizing, teaching and real life experiences, continued to learn and grow in her journey to provide equity in information and opportunities, overcame adversity and emerged as a Community Connector and Engagement Specialist. From these humble beginnings, love and tenacity, grew EmPower All.
ENCOURAGE
We work with community partners to identify opportunities for families. Our dedicated and passionate team surrounds the community with mentoring, intensive in-home therapy, and support groups to address their needs of “self”.
EXPOSE
Our team educates and trains, how to identify and address socio-economic issues in their communities. Our participants engage with their neighbors and civic institutions, as well as hold leadership workshops and facilitate peer-to-peer conversations.
ENGAGE
We empower our community to become change agents in their own neighborhoods. We provide educational training on the art of conversation and lead educational community walks throughout several low-income to assist in bridging the communication gap in disenfranchised neighborhoods.
BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF
Love & Service
Integrity & Trust
Empathy, Humility & Respect
Collaboration
Responsibility