This is Who We Are.
ERCEGI, Inc. is a community-based nonprofit research and development organization based in Jacksonville, Florida and established for the purpose of providing “Evaluation, Research, Communication, and Engagement through Geo-data Intelligence” to communities primed for positive and sustainable change. We work with partnering organizations (community-based, faith-based, government entities, schools) and residents of a specific geographic area to serve as an external Community Planner.
Our efforts are guided not only by collected data and feedback from the community, but also by the following principles:
- The future of any community is only as good as the future citizens it nurtures.
- Addressing problems means addressing people through communication and education in which all aspects (economic, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental) are considered.
- More comprehensive and systemic change results from programs that target prevention over intervention.
- Education (formal and informal) is the fundamental means for change.
- Enlisting all stakeholders is necessary for attainable and systemic change.
- Solutions must be arrived at by clearly identifying problem areas and root cause(s) and then carefully applying sustainable preventative programs that have been incubated and scaled.
- The success of a program must be measured not only by those it has helped but also by those it did not harm.
All that we do is in support of our two primary objectives:
- Bring positive, sustainable change to a defined geographic area by identifying spatial inequalities and resource deficits and helping to network community assets.
- Work to improve the schools within a defined geographic area by helping to improve the community environment in which its students and their families live.
We are excited and honored to find ourselves in such a venture. We move forward with this charge to affect critical, positive change in North Florida and South Georgia communities as a beginning to a more promising future for us all.
Sincerely,
The Board and Staff of ERCEGI, Inc.
What We Do:
Tangible deliverables:
CAS Findings and Recommendations, Community Profile, CSA Findings and Recommendations, Organization Capacity Building Toolkits, FSCP Implementation Toolkits, FSCP Action Plan, Basic Website Design
Intangible deliverables:
Canvassing activities (participation in established community events, project-specific rallies, focus groups, field-based data gathering of visual impressions, GPS data gathering), workshops, onsite coaching, community website assistance