SOAR – STAFF
Staff
What They Said
NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY “The ultimate goal is to leave the neighborhood self-sufficient. We leave when we’ve stabilized the neighborhood enough. The dream is to feel the people in the neighborhood have been able to rise (not displaced) with property values and gentrification.” “What makes FCS different is that the whole mission is based around the people we’re serving, can also provide something to us. They have something of value. Equal transaction. What we’re trying to do is empower and lift up the residents to make them self-sufficient. That’s our baseline values and why people come to us.” THOUGHT LEADERSHIP (EXTERNAL REPUTATION) “Raise our public profile. We’ve gotten on some interesting radars (60 Minutes, Purpose Built). There are a lot of ways that we could be on a more national/public stage. The way that we can talk about things in a unified way is unique and important. The only way to solve these issues is to talk about them together (versus in silos). I want to raise our profile in a way that allows us to be a part of conversations on a larger scale.” “In that public platform, I want us to own and scale within each of the sectors that we have credibility in. Oftentimes, these fields operate in silos but pulling them together raises questions. Elevate our ability to be thought leaders in each of those areas. This only works best if we create the points of connectivity and do it holistically. That is extremely important for where we’re going. Almost like Marvel (each superhero has its own unique superpower), but the power is in the brand (collective). It is our manifesto and our methodology, and we have a great opportunity to do it individually and create a long road map in the silos where we are now.”
• Neighborhood self- sufficiency (stability) • Thought leadership (External Reputation)
“And the avengers’ ability to work together. LMAO”
“People are theoretically interested in what the Lupton Center can do but also on what the housing can do. People’s eyes light up.”
“It’s in those moments, about housing development, people want to know about the funding piece. When we talk about what we had to do to scale, people want to talk about the funding.”
“People are excited about FCS methods of measurement. How we’re measuring our impact (versus activity – how many houses we built last year). People are wanting to move from activity to how do we measure impact. Where do we find the people that do that/templates? Opportunity for us to scale how we share to the public and solidify ourselves as innovators and thought leaders and flourishing.” “Operating in my silo of housing, I automatically go down that channel. But the fact that FCS has been around for more than 40 years and has been very intentional with what real help looks like (big picture, hand up versus hand out). It was a very intentional approach, to not just want to build an entirely low-income neighborhood, but to get a percentage of good quality, safe housing, mixed income housing options for people. It’s the long game, and FCS has come into that very intentionally. I have a lot of respect for that approach. Forty something years speaks for itself.”
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