Empowering YOU! Connecting to Community Resources - Please join us for this free event where community members can make meaningful connections to local organizations through food*, services, prizes, and fun!

Natco Community Empowerment Center is excited to announce we are hosting an outdoor resource event in partnership with the Sylvan Nook Church of Christ, and the United Way.

Empowering YOU
Friday, August 20, 2021
10am – 2pm
Sylvan Nook Church of Christ (parking lot)
1221 Sylvan Nook Drive

Rain Date: Tuesday, August 24th

The purpose of this event is to support, encourage and resource individuals/families in our community to be the “Best Me I Can Be.” Our goal is to have a variety of organizations at the event that can support individuals/families. There will also be door prizes and we will serve our attendees and vendors a free lunch.

A full list of participating organizations will be listed here and our event Facebook page. We request that organizations register to participate by July 20, 2021 or call NCEC at 983-4766 after that date.

The following guidelines apply to anyone entering the prize drawings:

  • Must be 18 or older to enter
  • Drawing will take place off site
  • Winners will be notified by contact information provided on the entry form by  August 25, 2021
  • All prizes must be picked up by September 8, 2021 at 5pm or they will be forfeited
  • Pick up at the Natco Community Empowerment Center, 1627 E. Main Street, Richmond
  • Empowering YOU! vendors and planners are ineligible to win

The following organizations will be onsite for the event. Be sure to stop by their table.

  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  • Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Birth to Five
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Wayne County
  • Bridges for Life
  • Bridges of Indiana
  • Centerstone
  • Chance and Services for Youth
  • Children’s Bureau
  • Choices Coordinated Care Solutions
  • Community Action of East Central Indiana (CAECI) Head Start
  • Dwyer Community Center
  • Future Achievers
  • Genesis of Richmond, Inc.
  • Girls Inc. of Wayne County
  • Good News Habitat for Humanity
  • Hands of Hope
  • Happy Place Therapy Farm
  • Healthy Start
  • Hendricks Behavioral Hospital
  • ICAP
  • Indiana 211
  • Indiana Foster Care-DCS
  • Ivy Tech Community College – Richmond
  • Joseph Moore Museum
  • KTL Performance Mortgage
  • Manpower
  • Meridian Health Services
  • MediCenter Pharmacy
  • Morrisson-Reeves Library
  • Natco Community Empowerment Center
  • Natco Credit Union
  • Neighborhood Health Center
  • Recovery Church Richmond
  • Reid Health
  • Reid Health Community Outreach
  • Reid Health Human Resources
  • Reid Health Physician Referral
  • SHIP
  • Surety Community Ladies Center
  • Volunteers of America
  • Wayne County Sheriff’s Department
  • Wayne Township Trustee