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Mark Winston Griffith

Mark Winston Griffith is a journalist, community development professional and social justice activist. As a DMI Fellow, Mark focuses on issues of community development and economic opportunity. In 2003 Mr. Griffith completed a twelve-year tenure as the founding Executive Director of the Central Brooklyn Partnership (the Partnership), a membership and neighborhood-based organization that builds the capacity of local people to exert political and economic power through direct action, community organizing and cooperative, sustainable development. While directing the Partnership he also served as the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, which at one time was the country's largest Black-owned, community-based financial cooperative.

Today Mark serves as the Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, which works with community groups to promote financial justice in New York's low-income communities and communities of color.

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Posted by Contributor at September 5, 2004 03:34 PM