Opportunities Industrialization Center.

The Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) is an international network of employment and training centers which serve the hardcore poor and unemployed. The community based organization was was founded by Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan, then Pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

OIC provides assistance to its affliates in areas of program and proposal development, fiscal management, and management information systems. OIC projects were designed to help those individuals with special barriers to employment such as ex-offenders, former alcoholics and drug abusers, high school drop-outs, veterans, older workers, and women. The organization was involved in economic development activites to provide minorities and other disadvantaged groups to pool resources and start business ventures in their own communities. In 1969, the organization established an international branch which aided in the development of OICs in foreign countries, particularly in Africa.

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