History

Fifty years ago, concerned religious leaders and community members banded together as the Edgewater Community Council (ECC) to safeguard and im­prove the quality of life in their neighborhood.

Since those first meetings in 1960, ECC has fulfilled this mission by fighting absentee landlords and drug houses, preserving hundreds of units of affordable housing, helping to form more than a dozen other community organizations, working to secure historic sites for public use as neighborhood parks, organizing mass property assessment appeals to help homeowners, and coordinating neighborhood cleaning and greening activities, among many other efforts.

Visit the Milestones page for a list of some of ECC's most significant accomplishments over the past five decades.

A list of the organizations ECC helped establish can be found on the Organizations page.

Today, ECC continuse to identify and address community priorities in a range of ways: through volunteer-powered committees covering a wide range of issues, as a central hub for community information via our website and other means, and by providing needed services to vulnerable members of our community and the public, including immigrant and senior outreach, housing information and resources, and youth arts programs.

You can help ECC advance its mission of improving the quality of life in Edgewater: become a member today!