MISSION
We provide leadership in moving families from surviving to thriving. We improve quality of life by alleviating poverty, fostering independence and wellness and connecting people to the resources they need.
OUR VISION
Community Council envisions vital communities where every individual has a clear path to economic security and a healthy life.
VALUES STATEMENT
At Community Council, we rise by lifting others.
Impact
We strive, through our work, to promote and ensure fair treatment, self-sufficiency and prosperity in order to empower and transform our clients and our community.
Dignity
We are dedicated to dignity, respect, empathy and transparency in all that we do. We demonstrate these values in the way we treat our clients, our partners, our donors and each other.
Focused
We are goal and results-oriented and community focused.
OUR HISTORY
Since its incorporation in 1943, Community Council of Greater Dallas has identified services that are needed in the community, assessed how best services could be delivered to meet social issues, and mobilized and implemented action plans working in concert with its member agencies and public sector resources.
Pervasive issues over time have included juvenile delinquency and welfare; older adults; public health; daycare; and legislative advocacy. The Community Council met these challenges through fact-based research, deploying volunteers, incubating new services and agencies, expanding government programs where appropriate, convening collaborative work and delivering selected direct services.
The Community Council’s research and action plans resulted in the incubation and birth of new social services including:
- Dallas Family Court
- Dallas County Juvenile Department
- Dallas Area Agency on Aging
- Dallas Community Action Agency
- Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission
- Head Start of Greater Dallas
- Callier Speech and Hearing Center
- Volunteer Center of North Texas
- Martin Luther King Center
- Community Dental Care
- Dallas Association of Services to the Homeless
- AIDS ARMS
- The Concilio
- Lemmon Avenue Bridge
- Youth and Family Centers
- The Gleaning Network
