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Opportunities Industrialization Center (usually shortened to “OIC” and doing business as OIC of America, Inc. and OIC International, Inc.) is a nonprofit adult education and job training organization headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] with affiliates located in 15 U.S. states.
Jul. 27—MOSES LAKE — The giant scissors snipped, the ribbon fell and everyone present applauded as Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington officially moved into its new digs at ...
The movement quickly spread around the nation. With sixty affiliated programs in thirty states and the District of Columbia, OIC has grown into a movement, which has served over two million disadvantaged and under-skilled people. This approach also led to the formation of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI) in 1969. [8]
Sargent Shriver called the Opportunities Industrialization Center "an American solution to an American problem" in 1967; [14] Hillary Clinton described her 1993 health care plan as "an American solution for an American problem by creating an American health care system that works for America."
For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations, [1] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as well as those in operation (figures as of the 400th edition, 2012/13). A 2020 academic ...
Dobson's brother, Rev. Harold Dobson, was the first president of Baltimore's branch of Opportunities Industrialization Center, (OIC). [16] OIC was founded in Philadelphia by Rev. Leon Sullivan. Dobson was the co-host of Look At It This Way, a community affairs television show on WBAL-TV in Baltimore. Co-hosts included Samuel Thornton Daniels ...
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