Cass Community Social Services
Cass Community Social Services, Inc. (CCSS or Cass) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) community-based organization headquartered in Detroit, MI serving Southeastern Michigan, Wayne County, under the direction of a volunteer Board of Directors. The Cass Community Social Services Mission Statement:
CCSS is dedicated to making a profound difference in the lives of the diverse populations it serves by providing for basic needs, including affordable housing, promoting self-reliance and encouraging community involvement and community improvement.Cass Community Social Services has also occasionally engaged In acts of political activism, usually In protest of city and state budget cuts.
Read more about Cass Community Social Services: History of Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, History of Cass Community Social Services, Funding
Famous quotes containing the words community, social and/or services:
“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,” you may indeed set over you a king whom the LORD your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 17:14,15.
“Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.”
—John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)