EMPOWERment, Inc.EmPOWERment, Inc.’s mission is to empower individuals and communities through community organizing, affordable housing, and grass roots economic development. In 1996, two UNC Social Work students, Myles Presler and Termain Kyles, heard directly from residents about some of the challenges they were facing including: high housing costs, low quality housing, political and economic disempowerment, and low household incomes.
EmPOWERment, Inc. was established to not only build homes, but also to build lives. In order to raise community awareness and dialogue, a multi-pronged and ambitious mission was created for the growing organization.