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About Community Organizing
Equitable Development Initiative (EDI)
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Let the disenfranchised vote, let the silenced be heard, let the oppressed be empowered, and let the marginalized move to the center... Ms. Ella Jo Baker Who Are We?
We advocate through political empowerment and popular education methods, with an emphasis on leadership development. We are committed to investing in our members and other community residents so that Shaw will be a strong community for us and for future generations.
Why? Because laws and systems continue to teach us and our children that we have no power, we have no rights and that we and our communities are broken. Because D.C. is a city without a voice, where its poorest residents have come to believe that all we can and should expect are services to help us inch by. Because we honestly believe that unless we organize around justice values nothing will change for our families and our children.
How?
SEA is building the capacity of our neighborhood by creating a resident-led movement that is gaining respect and value. In the past we have:
What Are We Doing Now?
But not all is settled... We are still waiting for the Department of Employment Services to deliver necessary funding for the training to start. Though DOES has indicated funds will be available, SEA has been working hard to get the funds now, so that training can be completed before the hotel opens for business. Your time, energy, and voice can be critical to this process!
How Does This Affect Me?
Justice does NOT come easy... and to ensure health, safety, and opportunities for our families and community we-You-must believe in YOUR POWER for action and change.
SEA Living Wage Jobs Campaign UPDATES!!
Shaw Education for Action (SEA) celebrated the first cycle of its hotel job training program this March. Despite a slow hospitality season that limited hotel participation in the program, 25% of the eligible candidates in the program are now employed by local hotels. With this initial success behind them, SEA members are now turning their attention to securing a more expansive training and hiring agreement for the Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. SEA has submitted amendments to the City's funding legislation for the hotel that would set aside $3.4 million in training money and require Marriott to work with the community to create a training and hiring plan with the funds. For more information on how you can enter the program or how you can support SEA as it continues to organize for economic justice, please contact David Haiman at dhaiman@onedconline.org
UPDATE: Shaw Education for Action's Hotel Job Training Starts on February 13 As part of our ongoing campaign to connect Shaw residents with living wage jobs, Shaw Education for Action (SEA), in conjunction with the Community Services Agency of the Washington Metro Labor Council, will launch its hotel job training next month. Two weeks of job readiness training tailored to the hospitality industry will begin on February 13th! In addition to celebrating the long-awaited debut of this training, SEA members are still organizing to make sure graduates have jobs when they finish the program. We are currently reaching out to several major hotels to ensure that they provide on the job training and hiring opportunities. For more information on how you can enter the program or how you can support SEA as it continues to organize for economic justice, please contact David Haiman at dhaiman@onedconline.org
Shaw Education for Action/SEA: Living Wage Jobs Campaign As of November 1, the Department of Employment Services released the funds to support the hotel training and hiring process originally designed to connect residents with jobs at the new Embassy Suites Hotel. Shaw Education for Action (SEA) members had been organizing for the agreements and funding to connect local resident with new hotel jobs for over a year.
Though the Embassy Suites has already opened, SEA and its partners have been actively seeking hiring agreements with other hotels in the area. We will implement the program in early 2006 and expect graduates to be employed in living wage jobs by the spring.
For more information on SEA please contact David Haiman at dhaiman@onedconline.org
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Shaw
Education for Action
(SEA) is a committed group of Shaw women, men and youth who organize for
social change and economic justice among lower income resident of the Shaw
community. 
iving-wage
jobs initiative for Shaw residents at the future Convention Center Hotel 
Over the past year, SEA
members have been working to get the newly built Embassy Suites Hotel to
agree to train and hire local residents for the new jobs being created at
the hotel. The dedication and hard work of these Shaw residents has paid
off. SEA members have: 
