The mission of The Long Foundation, Inc. is to work collaboratively with private individuals and organizations including religious and public organizations to reduce poverty including homelessness, hunger, unemployment and crime. The Long Foundation, Inc. will work collaboratively to improve the high school graduation and high school drop-out rates through innovative educational programs including but not limited to the development and operation of a charter school with an emphasis on poverty reduction. The Long Foundation, Inc. will work collaboratively with organizations and individuals to reduce mental illness, for delivery of senior and disabled person’s services, improve affordable housing and to assist ex-felons by reducing recidivism and successful re-entry into the community. The Long Foundation, Inc. will collaborate with organizations to offer job training and placement, community empowerment classes, youth activities and economic opportunities to persons in need.
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