Our goal is for people to move out of poverty and become stable, successful, and empowered. We accomplish this with a coordinated effort that provides a full range of services including help in preparing for, finding and maintaining employment, and advocacy/support services that address problems with housing, health care, nutrition, literacy, mental health counseling and other issues that affect basic quality of life.

Our vision is a community where children live in good quality housing, play in a safe, attractive neighborhood with thriving businesses, go to an excellent school, graduate college, and succeed in their lives as adults, giving back to others. We want these children to remain in the neighborhood as adults, not because they can't afford to move, but because they could not dream of a better place to raise their own children.

We reach an unduplicated number of more than 2,000 people a year throughout the community. Including the children of these individuals, we reach more than 4,000 persons. To respond to the complex needs of immigrants and refugees, East End has many bilingual employees and one trilingual staff who speak English, Spanish and Arabic. Staff members include persons who have graduated from our service programs and adults who were once teens at our youth center.

East End has been recognized for our work, including receiving the 2005 Eclipse Integrity Award from the Better Business Bureau, the 2006 Access to Justice Award from Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio, and we have been included in national publications including Hunger Report of 2008: Working Harder for Working Families, and presented at a national green conference. We are a finalist in a national competition in 2011 for an award from ARAMARK and also won an award for our housing development from the Ohio CDC Association in 2010.