Core Values
MORE is a multicultural community-based organization that empowers people of many races, cultures and ethnic backgrounds to live and work in peace: to combat racism and to change societal structures that contribute to keeping people in poverty. This is accomplished through the concern for the basic needs of people in poverty, organizing, leadership development, and formal education of disadvantaged adults.
The core values on which we base all our work are:
- Cultivating, honoring, and celebrating a love and respect for all people
- Warm hospitality and presence to one another as key to our ministry
- Holding people’s hopes and dreams as central
- Belief that together we are enough
- Mutual learning
- Staying grounded in one’s own spiritual roots
- Making sure the people are involved
MORE strives to create understanding among peoples with diverse languages, religious beliefs, traditions and cultures, and to unite these groups into a community with common goals.
The primary purpose of this special commitment to the poor is to enable them to become active participants in the life of society. It is to enable all persons to share in and contribute to the common good… the deprivation and powerlessness of the poor wounds the whole community. (Economic Justice for All)
