The mission of Global Community Engagement is to build partnerships among individuals, including, but not limited to, children, students, educators, professional, business and community leaders and non-governmental organizations in order to foster experiential and collaborative learning in the context of community engagement worldwide.  With a focus on the developing world, GCE encourages community engagement, global citizenship and cross-cultural understanding among all people. 

GCE supports, through reciprocal partnerships, the efforts of local non-governmental organizations in the developing world whose missions and values are complementary to the goals of GCE as reflected in our values and vision statements, to foster organizational self-sustainability and to encourage self-reliance for individuals in vulnerable situations.

GCE, through educational programming and interaction, works to bring groups of individuals together to exchange ideas and learn from each other, recognizing that the experiences of each person, regardless of age, nationality, gender, race or socio-economic background,  are valuable and worthy of respect.

GCE seeks to provide education and training through experiential learning to individuals in vulnerable situations in the developing world.  The goal of this training and education is to provide greater access to employment and financial independence.

GCE operates under the assumption that community engagement is the best approach to accomplish our mission; building trust, collaboration and a sense of mutual benefit are a necessary part of our efforts.
 

Vision
No child should have to live in conditions where her life is endangered and without hope for the future. We each have the responsibility to become aware of our ability to make the world a better place for all.

Values
Illuminated by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The Earth Charter, Global Community Engagement espouses:

• Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
• It is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations.
• Everyone has the right to education.
• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, sexual or gender orientation, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs.
• Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of herself/himself and of her/his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond her/his control.
• Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of her/his personality is possible
• Respect for the Earth and life in all its diversity.
• Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and environmental imperative.