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For general information about MLK VISTA, read on. Current MLK VISTA Members, click here for this year’s calendar and other useful information.

MLK VISTA models Solid Ground's mission, working to achieve a just and caring community free from poverty, prejudice and neglect. Compassion and respect for all people are among our highest values.

MLK VISTA intends to...

• Collaborate and find solutions to end poverty by working with all people and cultures — with an emphasis on communities of color.
• Be accountable to the people we serve, and do work that is relevant to the health and wellbeing of the community.
• Support, cultivate and nurture the natural leadership that exists within the communities we serve.
• Empower community members to have ownership in the activities, programs and decision-making processes of organizations that impact their wellbeing.
• Review institutionalized systems and structures that create barriers and uphold environments that keep people in poverty.
• Be a learning program that continually incorporates lessons learned from people affected by poverty and racism, including but not limited to community elders, social justice and undoing racism scholars and educators.
• Conduct community research, community forums and program evaluation, and disseminate our findings to the larger community.

MLK VISTA believes...

• Our community has the resources and ability to end poverty.
• All people have the right to food, shelter, social justice and opportunity.
• Racism perpetuates poverty. To end poverty, we must undo racism.
• Community interest, input and ownership are key to the development, growth and expansion of the community. True solutions to community issues are found within its citizens.
• Power rests within the citizens of each community’s experiences. Therefore, the best evaluators of a community’s true condition lies in the wisdom of its members.