Charles 'Chuck' Turner, executive director of the Center for Community Action, has been a community organizer, activist, and advocate for Boston's African-American community for over 20 years. He has a record of effectively organizing people to confront city and state agencies for jobs, affordable housing, and equitable land use. In 1967 he organized Mothers for Adequate Welfare; in the late 1960s he led the Black United Front to gain adequate funding for community economic and educational development. Turner was a leading architect of the Boston Jobs Coalition whose efforts helped create the Boston Jobs for Boston Residents Ordinance, now in effect, guaranteeing a percentage of jobs for people of color and women on all city construction projects.