The Jordan Area Community Council (JACC) is a nonprofit, citizen participation organization for the Jordan neighborhood, located in North Minneapolis. The mission of JACC is to “organize people, knowledge and capital for the collective empowerment of Jordan residents.” One of the city’s first community-based organizations, JACC began its work in 1964 as a local PTA in which members joined together to prevent closure of the public library’s North Minneapolis branch. That struggle—which resulted in a new North Minneapolis library opening in 1970—established JACC firmly as a grassroots organization, based in the belief that residents could solve their problems through collective action, thereby empowering themselves.

Geographically, Jordan is a wedge-shaped neighborhood, marked by Broadway Avenue on the south, Lowry Avenue on the north, and Emerson Avenue on the east. Within these boundaries are 2,500 household and dotted businesses along the major corridors.

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