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Founded in 1922 and renamed honoring Dr. King in 1968, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center is a central service provider for at-risk individuals, families, and seniors. An independent nonprofit, the MLK Community Center fights hunger, promotes health, educates young and school-aged kids, supports families, and engages seniors.
We nourish, educate, and support Newport County residents to improve their economic, social, and physical well-being.
We build a strong and inclusive community where all people are empowered to be self-reliant and to live their best quality of life.
Programs encompass three areas:
Agency goals are to:
We are flexible and innovative in addressing our community's needs, providing high-quality, impact-driven programming.
We embrace diversity in all its forms and advance equity by sustaining an inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone is valued, accepted, and supported.
We hold ourselves accountable to our clients, donors, volunteers, and the community at large and are committed to transparency, ethical behavior, and responsible stewardship of resources.
We are committed to partnerships to help better serve our community.
We actively work towards justive, fairness, and inclusion to create a more equitable and just society..
We empower and educate our clients to
make choices that improve their
health and well-being.
We are proud to be a BRAVE Space (Belonging, Respect, Alliance, Validity and Equity), a place where the LGBTQIA+ community feels safe, welcome, and validated.
We gained this safe zone certification as part of a pilot group of local agencies working toward this common goal.