{"id":6879,"date":"2021-06-01T17:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/?page_id=6879"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:44:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/es\/about-us\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &#038; History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" src=\"http:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0706ee-1024x629.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0706ee-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0706ee-1024x629-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0706ee-1024x629-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0706ee-1024x629-700x430.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nuestra misi\u00f3n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Empower Missouri trabaja para garantizar las necesidades humanas b\u00e1sicas y la igualdad de justicia para todas las personas de nuestro estado mediante la creaci\u00f3n de coaliciones y la promoci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Vision<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Imaginamos un Missouri en el que todas las personas tengan comida, refugio y justicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Values<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Una nutrici\u00f3n adecuada, viviendas asequibles y justicia equitativa son esenciales para el \u00e9xito de Missouri.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Todas las opresiones estructurales son reconocidas, desafiadas y desmanteladas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica basada en evidencias es fundamental para quienes gobiernan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>El proceso de elaboraci\u00f3n de leyes es verdaderamente accesible para todos en nuestro estado.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aprobado por la Junta Directiva, 17 de marzo de 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Empower Missouri es el resultado de un movimiento social que comenz\u00f3 a fines del siglo XIX. Hace m\u00e1s de cien a\u00f1os, Missouri era un estado segregado. St. Louis fue la cuarta ciudad m\u00e1s grande de los Estados Unidos. Un linchamiento ocurri\u00f3 en Richmond, Missouri en marzo de ese a\u00f1o. Las mujeres no pod\u00edan votar; muchos murieron en gran n\u00famero durante el parto. Aquellos que pod\u00edan trabajar fueron segregados en el lugar de trabajo haciendo &quot;trabajo de mujeres&quot;. Los ni\u00f1os trabajaban largas horas en condiciones peligrosas o deambulaban por las calles. Algunos fueron encarcelados en c\u00e1rceles para adultos por delincuencia. Los hombres murieron en horribles accidentes industriales. La esperanza de vida era de 46 a\u00f1os.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Debido a estas malas condiciones, en 1901, un grupo de 41 habitantes de Misuri se unieron para empoderarse para abordar estos males sociales. <strong>Empower Missouri naci\u00f3.&nbsp;<\/strong>Empoderar el nombre de Missouri fue el <em>Conferencia de Missouri sobre organizaciones ben\u00e9ficas y correccionales&nbsp;<\/em>siguiendo el modelo de una organizaci\u00f3n nacional.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">La primera reuni\u00f3n oficial del grupo de reformadores sociales fue en enero de 1901 en la YMCA en St. Louis. Durante la primera d\u00e9cada, la organizaci\u00f3n fue un lugar de encuentro para los progresistas de Missouri. Se conocieron en una conferencia anual, leyeron art\u00edculos sobre temas sociales y se relacionaron.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Una d\u00e9cada m\u00e1s tarde, en 1911, surgi\u00f3 un liderazgo m\u00e1s agresivo en la organizaci\u00f3n. Robert Baldwin, fundador de la Uni\u00f3n Estadounidense por las Libertades Civiles, encabez\u00f3 el primer comit\u00e9 legislativo de la conferencia y traslad\u00f3 a la organizaci\u00f3n a un papel m\u00e1s activista. Se involucr\u00f3 en el Programa piloto de Pensiones para Madres en el condado de Jackson, el precursor del programa de Ayuda a Familias con Ni\u00f1os Dependientes (AFDC) creado en 1935 como parte de la Ley de Seguridad Social.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tres a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de que Baldwin comenzara su liderazgo en la organizaci\u00f3n, fue el primero en publicar un informe sobre el estado y las condiciones de los &quot;negros&quot;. Estos informes y las horribles condiciones sociales de las personas en los Estados Unidos inspiraron a la <em>Conferencia de Missouri sobre organizaciones ben\u00e9ficas y correccionales&nbsp;<\/em>para cambiar su nombre a la Conferencia de Missouri para el Bienestar Social, lo que indica una visi\u00f3n m\u00e1s global de los problemas y soluciones sociales.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">En 1915, los l\u00edderes de la Conferencia de Missouri para el Bienestar Social trabajaron arduamente para establecer una Oficina de Ni\u00f1os y sirvieron en una &quot;Comisi\u00f3n del C\u00f3digo de Ni\u00f1os&quot;. Treinta proyectos de ley de bienestar infantil se aprobaron durante un per\u00edodo de 20 a\u00f1os que estableci\u00f3 la base de Missouri Child Services.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A principios del siglo XX, para comunicarse de manera m\u00e1s eficaz, la Conferencia de Bienestar Social de Missouri cre\u00f3 el bolet\u00edn legislativo para informar a la gente sobre lo que estaba sucediendo en la legislatura estatal. En 1933, la Conferencia de Bienestar Social de Missouri cambi\u00f3 su nombre por tercera vez a Asociaci\u00f3n de Bienestar Social de Missouri (MASW) porque la organizaci\u00f3n se hab\u00eda convertido en mucho m\u00e1s que una conferencia. Despu\u00e9s del cambio de siglo, MASW cambi\u00f3 su nombre por cuarta y \u00faltima vez a Empower Missouri. Se eligi\u00f3 el nuevo nombre &quot;Empower Missouri&quot;, impulsado por la posici\u00f3n de la marca &quot;Mobilizing for Social Justice&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more than 120 years, Empower Missouri has been uplifting the voices of everyday Missouri, whether fighting for civil and voting rights, or for Missouri&#8217;s homeless and uninsured. Empower Missouri is one the oldest organizations of its kind in the nation. It is a nonprofit and nonpartisan. Our objectives are the improvement and extension of health and affordable essential services for the people of Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Entre muchos de los logros de Empower Missouri a lo largo de sus 120 a\u00f1os de historia se encuentran:<strong> la creaci\u00f3n de la Comisi\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos de Missouri, el establecimiento de un Sistema de Defensor\u00eda P\u00fablica, la Ley de Alivio del Hambre de los Ni\u00f1os<\/strong> y muchos otros.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Empoderar a Missouri<\/strong> ha invertido liderazgo en el cambio de pol\u00edticas sociales p\u00fablicas durante m\u00e1s de un siglo y ha logrado algunos \u00e9xitos notables. El cambio en la pol\u00edtica social es el resultado de las acciones de una coalici\u00f3n de ciudadanos y formuladores de pol\u00edticas. Los cambios de pol\u00edtica no se habr\u00edan producido cuando sucedieron sin nuestra participaci\u00f3n significativa durante m\u00e1s de un siglo.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Mission Empower Missouri works to secure basic human needs and equal justice for every person in our state through coalition-building and advocacy. Our Vision We envision a Missouri in which all people have food, shelter, and justice. 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