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Lutherwood CODA, in the Waterloo region, fields a diversified set of CED programs ranging from housing for seniors to reading programs for children; from several specialized loan funds to business career counseling, from an integrated array of employment services to new businesses that serve as a training context. A massive effort entitled Opportunities 2000 (OP 2000) recently earned them a United Nations award. The project was based on a previous public-private-non-profit initiative that had helped over 1,000 welfare recipients find jobs or start self-sustaining businesses and 1,000 more enter educational and training programs. In addition to success with moving people out of welfare and poverty, OP 2000 has created a continuing network of dozens of capable community organizations that are mobilized and working on all the varied problems of poverty in the Waterloo area. In the past 13 years, Lutherwood CODA has helped 6,000 people find new jobs, 1,100 entrepreneurs start their own businesses and 2,500 people pursue skills training and education upgrading. Lutherwood CODA has built a community to eradicate poverty. (Source: Caledon Institute of Social Policy)

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