About MCP
The Monument Community Partnership (MCP) is
a broad-based collaborative of residents, human service agencies,
health service agencies, the school district, city government and
local business owners. It is designed to improve the well-being
of people who live in the Monument Community, a severely under-resourced
neighborhood in the heart of Concord, California.
A key premise of the MCP is this: That
taking intelligent and effective action to reduce poverty and
improve the well-being of a community starts with building
personal relationships that allow people from different
backgrounds and disciplines to work effectively together toward
common goals. Functional social networks and experience-based
trust are preconditions for any community to work well.
Therefore, the MCP, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, works to
involve residents of all ages, ethnicity and immigration status
as equal partners with local public and private organizations in
productive, action-based collaboration. This is no easy task. The
fact that we have painstakingly created a functional, productive
way for people from divergent groups to work together is in
itself a major achievement and serves as the foundation for
everything else we do.
More About MCP
See
City of Concord's website and
Southern District Information Guide (2006,
2005) Edición bilinguë.
