About Us
Our Mission
Community Education Group (CEG) is a nonprofit organization that helps communities build the workforce and infrastructure needed to improve health, opportunity, and resilience. Our work centers on workforce development, economic mobility, capacity building, and technical assistance for organizations operating in rural and under-resourced settings.
We partner with community-based organizations, public agencies, healthcare providers, and coalitions to strengthen what makes programs work in real life: trained staff, clear workflows, reliable data systems, strong partnerships, and sustainable funding strategies. CEG supports partners through training and coaching, implementation planning, performance improvement, and practical resources that can be adopted quickly and scaled responsibly.
Across our work, we prioritize relationship-driven collaboration, local context, and measurable outcomes. We do not lead with a single issue. We help communities and the organizations that serve them build durable capacity to respond to changing needs, strengthen access to services, and create pathways to stability for individuals and families.
Our Roots
With its principal place of business located in Washington, D.C., the Community Education Group (CEG) was established 22 years ago as the National Women and HIV/AIDS Project (NWAP). NWAP was created to address the dearth of public policy forums available women living with HIV and their allies at that time. In 1994, NWAP convened one of the first national meetings for women living with HIV and their allies in Atlanta, GA. This meeting resulted in the development and dissemination of the National Women and HIV/AIDS Survey and the National Women and HIV/AIDS Policy Agenda. In 1996, due to limited funding sources specific to women especially, women of color-focused organizations, NWAP transformed into CEG. CEG built upon NWAP’s mission by maintaining a core focus on women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and expanding its mission to not only address the evolving needs of African-American/Black women and their partners. CEG’s population focus also includes all people of color as well as other disenfranchised communities most vulnerable to HIV and HCV; including, but, not limited to African-American/Black men, ex-offenders, sex workers, and substance users.
CEG’s mission is and remains rooted in developing community-level strategies to stop the spread of HIV, HCV, and substance abuse and eliminate health disparities by developing replicable models for the use of other community and faith-based partners. Successful program design is accomplished through training indigenous persons to become community health workers, educating and testing the hard to reach, condom distribution, HIV screening, motivational interviewing and sharing our expertise with other organizations through national networks and local capacity building efforts. In the early 2000s, CEG successfully operationalized its mission through the development and implementation of its Community Health and Medical Personnel Services (CHAMPS) program. The innovative CHAMPS program was designed to increase linkage to care for HIV and HCV treatment. CEG’s model was lauded by Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.”
What We Do
Stopping the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Stopping the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV and Hep C requires developing and implementing creative, viable, culturally appropriate programs and policies that reflect the needs and concerns of the communities most affected and infected—the communities they are designed to help. That means accounting for and addressing the daily, real-life challenges faced by people in those communities, including underlying and systemic health, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges such as access to fair employment, a good education, primary medical care, and substance abuse and pregnancy prevention programs.