Our strategic plan codifies our commitment to serve and shape the sector by centering equity and anti-oppressive practices, by centering the experiences of BIPOC people and their communities, and by centering the power of community-based organizations.  We commit to doing this by wholly living into each letter of our name:  Community + Resource + Exchange.  The values that underpin our name make us unique in the sector because:

• We are of the Community. We are a community-focused organization that is deeply rooted in New York City's neighborhoods and the nonprofits that serve them. We know that community-based organizations are at the heart of social change, and it's time they were resourced to thrive. We also know that some communities have been historically marginalized, and our values require us to center the people from those communities and the power and knowledge they bring. 

• We provide Resources in the form of our services and support so that our clients can achieve their impact and success. We believe that our role is to make sure that everyone who works with us feels more resourced. That may mean more connected, more problems solved, more success achieved, or simply more rested. CRE believes that the main impact of our work is that we help an under-resourced sector feel more cared for and abundant. 

• We support the Exchange of knowledge, resources, relationships, and care through everything we do. CRE is good at what it does because we know that relationships are at the heart of everything and we've been building relationships for over 40 years. Relationships, sharing ideas, complaints, and hugs, is so important to all of us, and supporting our clients through our work means making space for the exchange of all that. We also support the resource-sharing between clients because that's what the nonprofit sector does when it gets together -- we share and build power together.