Founded in 1983, the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) was developed as a non-profit, community-based organization to address the gaps in resources to refugees and asylum-seekers from Ethiopia. By 1991, ECDC became the first ethnic community-based organization authorized by the U.S. Department of State to resettle refugees through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Over the … More Enterprise Development Group: Helping Refugees Forge Their American Dreams