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Friday, 2 November 2018 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM EST
11417, Miles Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44105, United States
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Camelot Hall, 11417, Cleveland, OH, 44105, United States.
You're invited to the 5th annual Progress Institute. Cleveland Neighborhood Progress is proud to host this professional development day for the community development industry in partnership with Union Miles Development Corp. This year's event will take place at Camelot Hall.
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress is a local community development intermediary that fosters inclusive communities of choice and opportunity in Cleveland.
Ben Hecht is the President & CEO of Living Cities, a collaborative of eighteen of the world’s leading foundations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates, Ford and Rockefeller foundations, and financial institutions, such as Bank of America, Prudential and Citigroup, who work together to boldly fight poverty in America’s cities. Under Ben’s leadership, the organization has established a new data driven, model of social change that brings together local business, government, philanthropic and community leaders to disrupt long-obsolete systems and focus on achieving needle-moving results. The organization’s $40 million loan fund has been selected as one of the world’s top 50 impact investment funds for six consecutive years. Its network of local public sector leaders from forty cities is spreading and adopting a new culture of municipal innovation and re-imagining the relationship between government and citizens. Ben received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his CPA from the State of Maryland. He currently chairs Duke University’s Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Advisory Council and sits on the National Advisory Board for StriveTogether. He previously served as founding chair of EveryoneOn, a national initiative founded by the Federal Communications Commission to connect low-income Americans to digital opportunity and as Finance Committee chair and Treasurer for the Georgetown Day School (GDS) board of trustees. He has been selected as one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide in the area of Urban Policy and as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow.
President & CEO of Living Cities
In this introductory overview, attendees discover what funders are looking for in the nonprofits they fund, and learn how to identify potential funders using Foundation Directory Online. Foundation Center data and funder insights help attendees understand the 10 most important things to know when seeking grants; from asking for the right amount to finding the right fit for a funder.
Director, Foundation Center Midwest
Take a trip behind the scenes and hear from CDC economic development staff from Detroit Shoreway, Slavic Village, and Old Brooklyn on how each neighborhood’s experience participating in the program. Presenters will share their stories, lessons learned, and provide insight to other neighborhoods interested in participating in the future. A brief presentation will be followed by a conversation around the program and how neighborhoods can best capatilize on Chain Reaction in the future. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Rosemary Mudry, Director of Neighborhood Development, Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation Marilyn Mosinski, Director of Business Recruitment and Development, Slavic Village Development
Economic Development and Marketing Director, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization
The purpose of this session is to share local efforts to engage diverse communities through the arts. Presenters will share best practices and examples of the arts as placemaking and a method resident engagement in their neighborhoods. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Ashley Shaw, Economic Development and Planning Manager, Ohio City Incorporated Carrie Carpenter, President & Executive Director, Gordon Square Arts District Letitia Lopez, Executive Director, Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center Gary Williams, Executive Director, Sankofa Fine Arts Plus
Senior Program Officer for the Arts, The George Gund Foundation
Over the course of the past year, University Settlement has routinely closed shop for the day and dispatched its entire staff into Slavic Village to build relationships with residents and hear first-hand their needs and concerns. These and related experimental efforts being carried out by the organization have allowed the organization to ground-truth or challenge quantitative data about the neighborhood, connect with neighbors, and adapt its programming to better respond to issues faced by the community. Come connect with University Settlement staff, learn about their efforts to hear and collect stories, and use this qualitative data to enhance the organization's work. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Ricardo Camargo, Wraparound Specialist, University Settlement Fred Knuckles, Fatherhood Connection Manager, University Settlement Amanda Miller, Hunger Center Coordinator, University Settlement Grace Miller, Family Support Specialist, University Settlement Malinda Simon, Educational Coordinator, University Settlement Karla Trammell, Systems of Care Manager, University Settlement Grace Wright, Community Resource Manager, University Settlement
Executive Director, University Settlemen
A recent longitudinal research project commissioned by the Knight Foundation and conducted by the Gallup organization unearthed surprising and contradictory answers to questions that have plagued CDCs: ‘What factors attach residents to their neighborhoods’ and ‘What role does attachment play in economic growth and well-being? This session will explore how to measure place-attachment, the key drivers of attachment, and we will also highlight local examples. Additional Panelists/Presenters: David Wilson, Project Manager, LAND Studio Sarah Seibert, Project Manager, LAND Studio Joe Cimperman, President, Global Cleveland
Program DIrector for Neighborhood Revitalization and Engagement, The Cleveland Foundation
Rooted in the belief that there is great opportunity to build conversations and coordinate knowledge sharing at the neighborhood level, The Cleveland Transformation Alliance has launched the School Quality Advocacy Initiative (SQAI) to leverage the support of its board, school quality ambassadors, community leaders, CMSD, and charter schools in Cleveland to conduct citizen-led advocacy to drive transformation and improve outcomes relative to academic, social-emotional and overall health and well-being of Cleveland students. This session will discuss the SQAI phases 1 + 2 as well as share best practices on engaging students parents and neighborhoods through the introduction of the theme of collaborative governance. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Jacqui Miller, Principal, Stonebrook Montessori Lowell King, Wraparound Coordinator, Franklin D. Roosevelt Academy, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cleveland Erika Brown, Community Network Builder, Neighborhood Connections Steven Lake, Vice President of Development and Community Affairs, NewBridge Cleveland Terika Hyneman, City Year Corps Member @ Glenville High School, ’15-’17
Curator, Sankofa Circle
This session will focus on how nonprofit, community-based organizations focused on community development can (and should) foster opportunities for political activism, public participation, and community organizing as a central feature of their work. This session will explore community development's historical roots in community organizing, as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with the community development field's professionalization. This session will also explore the benefits and challenges of various organizing strategies, draw from examples of organizing and activism in Camden, NJ and Flint, MI, and offer time to develop an organizational advocacy and organizing plan.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
Learn how to utilize design thinking, which is an iterative process to understand and redefine problems, to help identify solutions to changing neighborhood perception. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Jennifer Madden, President, Leverage Point Development
Neighborhood General Manager Van Aken District, RMS Investments LLC
Enterprise is committed to advancing economic mobility for low-income families in cities across America – especially families of color and those geographically disconnected from opportunity – through a place- and people-conscious partnership model that changes policies, practices, capital flows and power dynamics. When affordable housing providers, anchor institutions, innovative service providers and government collaborate, the result can lead to durable pathways to economic opportunity for low-income people. Additional Panelists/Presenters:"Kate Monter Durban, Assistant Director, CHN Housing Partners Jill Rizika, Executive Director, Towards Employment Brianna Watkins, TCF Public Service Fellow, Enterprise Community Partners
Vice President and Ohio Impact Leader, Enterprise Community Partners
In 2017, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress’ Neighborhood Solutions Awards focused on operationalizing racial equity and inclusion. Applicants were asked to submit ideas on creative projects or programs aimed at intentionally fostering Racial Inclusion in neighborhoods throughout Cleveland. For this panel discussion, 2017 Neighborhood Solutions Awards grantees will share the work they have completed over the past year and lessons learned in operationalizing REI. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Jeff Epstein, Executive Director, MidTown Cleveland, Inc. Jeff Verespej, Executive Director, Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation Khrys Shefton, Director of Real Estate Development, Famicos Foundation Roshawn Sample, Executive Director, Union Miles Development Corporation Kristyn Zollos, Development Specialist, Metro West Community Development Office
Education Equity Manager, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
This facilitated discussion will lift up trends and shifts in funding for community development corporations and leverage the insights and experiences of attendees and provide examples of how Community Development Corporations are successfully navigating fundraising to sustain their organizations and fulfill mission.
“Nothing about us without us!” Planning can be used to oppress or inspire, subjugate or empower. Inclusive planners surrender their privilege to stakeholders and facilitate consensus visions that everyone has a role in realizing. Disability rights advocate James Charlton coined the phrase that encapsulates what effective planning should be. This session will bring four planner/engagement types **together** with stakeholders involved in various aspects of neighborhood planning (you) to break down a planning process and discuss how more inclusive approaches improve projects and lead to more successful outcomes. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Monique Kelly, Senior Director of Community Engagement, St. Luke’s Foundation Joyce Pan Huang, Director of Planning and Marketing, MidTown Cleveland, Inc. Alex Pesta, Architect and Urban Designer, City Architecture
Director of Design & Development, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
India Pierce Lee, Senior Vice President, Program, The Cleveland Foundation Jamar Doyle, Executive Director, Collinwood & Nottingham Villages DEvelopment Corporation Joy Johnson, Associate Director, Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. Robert Jaquay, Associate Director, The George Gund Foundation
Affordability in the development of housing begins with closing the gap in financing common to all development. The ‘gap’ is particularly acute in cities like Cleveland. Planning Mixed-Use and Mixed-Income developments can open the opportunity for a wider variety and additional incentives than planning single use or single income level development. New incentives like Opportunity Zones and their associated Qualified Opportunity Funds have been launched and their impact is predicted to be large. Ohio is considering new State Tax Credits for Mixed-Use development over $40 million that combined with others begin filling the chronic financing ‘gap’. Learning how these new incentives will work with the existing menu of incentives will enable developers to build better capital stacks. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Aaron Pechota, Senior Vice President of Development, The NRP Group LLC Daniel Bergrin, Vice President and Tax Council, GBX Group LLC Anya Kulcsar, Director of Real Estate Development, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization
Economic Development Director, Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation
In this session, participants will learn about organizations and efforts seeking to build wealth for Cleveland residents. This conversation will highlight the intersection of community and economic development, attendees will learn about successes and challenges to workforce development and the role community development plays in connecting residents to economic opportunity. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Autumn Russell, Executive Director, Early College Early Career- Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET) Zerrine Bailey, Program Manager of Emerging Talent Network Program, Jumpstart Brianna Schultz, Vice President of Workforcde Development, WIRE-Net
Vice President, The Fund for Our Economic Future
According to The Civic Commons, civic Engagement is defined as, ""building a sense of community that brings people of all backgrounds back into public life as stewards and advocates shaping their city's future."" Please join us for a panel discussion that will challenge the audience to employ an aspirational lens, redefining and reimagining how we can cultivate a city of engaged citizens and infuse civic engagement for systemic reformation. Bipartisan work is challenged on both sides with questions of how to appeal to apathetic voters. We have the means and the tools to do so through nonpartisan work that can propel our communities to play a vital role in co-creating sustainable and representative services as systems of change. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Andrew Kohn, Executive, Voting-Matters Simeon Best, Voting Rights Coordinator, Cuyahoga County Malik Burpo, Student, Nexus Academy of Cleveland Devonta Dickey, Advocacy and Engagement Coordinator, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress Jennifer Lumpkin, Civic Engagement Strategy Manager, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
Vice President of Government Relations and Strategy
Do you know about the faith-based organizations and houses of worships that are serving your community? This session details the unique and important ways faith-based organizations are poised to strive to meet the mental, physical, and spiritual needs of the community and how community development corporations can take advantage of partnership opportunities. You will hear from community development leaders and members of the Greater Cleveland Interfaith Alliance who are taking the opportunity to partner with each other and how their partnerships are improving their communities. Learn how to utilize this impactful resource that has been overlooked in our region. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Pastor Courtney Jenkins, Senior Pastor, South Euclid United Church of Christ Ricardo Leon, Managing Director, Metro West Community Development Office Pastor Edward McGhee, Pastor, True Vine Baptist Church Jeff Stredney, Director, Hopeworks LLC
President, Janus Small Associates
The process of re-orienting traditional CDC operational structure from housing and small business development to community health is imperative to address how place impacts the quality of life of its people. In a panel-style discussion, this session will highlight cross-sector partnerships that were developed to address community health and how conducting a needs assessment provides data that will impact our disciplines going forward. Recommendations will be shared for cultivating cross-sector partnerships and how to leverage resources to maintain a shared mission of improved community health. Additional Panelists/Presenters: David Margolius, Medical Director of Systems Improvement, The MetroHealth System Briana McIntosh, Project Manager, Case Western Reserve University
Community Health Coordinator, Old Brooklyn CDC
This session will provide participants with a framework for making institutional systems change. Panelists will share information on the Step Up to UH program and stories on how they have brought institutions and residents together to transform system. This will include three examples of making institutional-systems change through community network organizing (the approach, ingredients, and examples around infant mortality, racial equity in the arts, and economic inclusion). Additional Panelists/Presenters: Christin Farmer, Founding President and CEO, Birthing Beautiful Communities LJ Sylvia, Gwen Garth, Owner, Garth Productions, Kings & Queens of Art
Program Director, Neighborhood Connections
Additional Panelists/Presenters: Climate Ambassadors
Manager of Climate Resiliency and Sustainability
Private meeting for Cleveland CDC Executive Directors. Please do not register if you are not currently a Executive Director at a Cleveland Community Development Corporation.
Once Northeast Ohio’s largest population center (as the eventually annexed Village of Newburgh), present day Union Miles remains one of Cleveland’s most historically significant neighborhoods - with its roots dating back to the early 1800’s. More recent circumstances serve as a microcosm for the larger trends and economic cycles of Northeast Ohio – both in terms of challenges and opportunities. Sign up to explore several sites in the heart of the neighborhood, which hark back to the neighborhood’s legacy and its vision for the future.
Planning Project Manager, Union Miles Development Corporation
In this session, presenters will share community development strategies and efforts to reduce crime, spur revitalization and build community-police collaboration. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Kristian Hunter, Community Engagement Manager, Collinwood and Nottingham Villages Development Corporation Jeremy Taylor, Safety and Community Engagement Coordinator, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization Tom Hetrick, Neighborhood Planner, Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation
Associate Director, Youngstown CityScape
In this session, participants will learn about the effective neighboring efforts being piloted by Neighborhood Connections and Case Western Reserve University. Panelists will share a framework for effective neighborhood, lessons learned throughout the pilot, and provide more information on successes and challenges to effective neighboring. Additional Panelists/Presenters: Erika Brown, Community Network Builder, Neighborhood Connections Sherrise McKinney, Project Coordinator, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities
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