The African Center for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is an awards’ winning community-based organization that strives to empower and enhance the lives of at-risk youth and adults living in underserved communities in Southeastern Queens. We provide creative services that have served over one thousand youth and community members.

At ACCE, we place a premium on PREVENTION all the while striving to rebuild shattered lives (remediation).  Ours is a passion that is unmatched and a commitment that is strikingly outstanding resulting in:

• 93% promotion rate for after-school and mentoring programs
• 90% retention rate for all participants
• Improved self-esteem and confidence, and producing a generation of Life long learners with greater appreciation for the value of education
  

We’ve  achieved these results because at ACCE, we:
demand Accountability of our selves and our clients;  inspire Confidence in those we serve build Capacity for ourselves and those we serve, and
 strive for Excellence in everything that we do and from our clients.

ACCE is a recipient of the 2005 Union Square Awards and has been featured on ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NY1, and in the NY Daily News, NY Newsday, and other publications.