STRATEGIC PRIORITIES // What’s most important to us
COMMUNITY Young people who live in communities in which they don’t feel safe or supported and have a place to live
Ensure Systems Help Young People Meet Their Basic Needs
Strengthen Permanent Connections
Build Financial Stability and Long Term Success
Provide Access to Education and Credentials
Support Youth Leadership
CRITICAL INIATIVES
• Completion of Phase I development to include: The Nia Building and the Shipping Container Courtyard and five pad sites for future development (2020); Completion of case study of development lessons learned (2020); • PY Pad Site Development - Leverage Aerotropolis Atlanta Member Affilation - feature sites in Aerotropolis Development Propectus (confirm publishing) (2021); • Influencing Other Developers - Leverage Aerotropolis Atlanta Member Affilation - PY featured in Development Propectus (confirm timing); PY featured as Atlanta Beltline Tour stop (2021/2022); PY profiled in commercial real estate publications (2021/2022); PY project submission to Urban Land Institute's Atlanta Awards for Excellence (2023) • Executing an agreement for a youth entrepreneurial training program; Hosting a second economic development/urban planning training for youth
• Capacity building supports for affordable housing developers and youth homelessness providers. • Casey works with other funders to encourage support for a coalition of advocacy groups who are working on tenants rights policies and for eviction prevention assistance.
• Active support of community led conversations to reform police operations and utilize public safety resources in ways that are less puntitive and based on public health interest • Casey is supporting gun safety work. CURE Violence is being implemented with fidelity to the model
• Youth led participatory grant making process is implemented across multiple cycles/years, with improvements in leadership and autonomy over time.
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