Community Empowerment

Community Empowerment, notice I didn't say Community Improvement. There are many improvement issues that affect our neighborhoods, like blighted neighborhoods, accountability of law enforcement, and predatory lending. These issues have always been a problem in our communities because community improvement must be undergirded by community empowerment. By connecting local businesses to neighborhood churches, neighborhood churches to non-profits, and citizens to the issues, the seeds of empowerment are planted and begin to sprout. Sunflower Community Action, for many years, has been doing just that.

SCA was instrumental in getting Conseco Finance to pay back $7M (yes, Seven-Million Dollars) to Kansas consumers. Sunflower has also been a key agent of change in fighting predatory lenders and the organizations that fund them.  Through SCA, 400 blighted properties were bought up to code. Installation of dash cams in patrol cars began as a response to Sunflower's campaign to hold police accountable--and we don't stop there.

With all that said, why wouldn't you want to become a member of SCA?  Without your voice, our organization is impotent; without each other, we are powerless.  But empowered and counted together, our voices (and votes) can challenge the injustice our community has to face collectively, regardless.  And at just $30 a year (per family) it's not hard to see why more and more youth and families are pitching in to grow and reform Kansas.