What We Believe

• CDTech Center believes that mitigating poverty requires a series of changes that reconstruct the political and economic systems and the relationships that affect the immediate conditions and long-term opportunities of the low-income communities.
• CDTech Center believes in the power of place. Neighborhoods are the origins of a civil society, political action and change, and economic activity.
• CDTech Center believes in the power of people. People are the instruments of change and that expanded individual capacity and human organization will lead to a better functioning and just democracy.
• CDTech Center believes in partnerships. Social and economic change requires breaking through human, family, and neighborhood isolation and rebuilding relationships across class, culture, gender, systems, and special interests.

What We Value

• CDTech Center values racial and cultural diversity. A democratic society must honor and support the uniqueness of the various American publics.
• CDTech Center values inclusiveness. Social action and social change must come from a sense of common destiny, a shared worth, and collective action.
• CDTech Center values community control over corporate control.
• CDTech Center values "use" values over "exchange" values.
• CDTech Center values the primacy of human and institutional development over real estate development.
• CDTech Center values the development process (community participation) over the development product.
• CDTech Center values the distribution of growth benefits over just growth itself.

What's Our Strategy?

• CDTech Center uses comprehensive community building strategies to reconstruct the social relationships that foster a sense of community and that can build the partnerships that lead to enhanced social, physical, and economic conditions.
• CDTech Center builds on community assets.
• CDTech Center supports organizing and advocacy.
• CDTech Center considers reinvestment as essential to reconstructing traditional relationships and market opportunities.
• CDTech Center trains community groups in technical skills in real estate development, economic development, human service systems in order to effectively reposition themselves in the marketplace.
• CDTech Center incorporates sector employment strategies that strengthen both business and job opportunities.