The Center for Community Development and Research, short CCODER (pronounced as 'Sikoder') founded in 1990,  is a people-first, non-profit organization, whose mission is based on a Tripod Model of action- where three main elements, Education, Organization and Socio-Economic Development, depend on the support and stabilization of Coordination- in order to assure Total Human Development.   Along with personal enrichment and fostering of leadership skills, the capacity building activities set forth by this method increase individual access to education, health care, and employment. CCODER believes that everyone is the “Master of their own Destiny” and through the success of the individual and community development can occur