SOAR – CORE LEADERSHIP TEAM STAFF Core Leadership Team Staff What They Said • Partnerships/ Relationships in community • Innovation • Core Values (neighboring) • Agility to adapt • Housing development • Thought Leadership/ reputation • Impact (Outcomes) PARTNERSHIPS/RELATIONSHIPS “Developing relationships and partnerships in the community.” “We are place based and a good bit of our staff lives in the neighborhood. We know neighbors and neighbors know us. When you are living in your work, it becomes more personal. You can respond quicker to the needs, speak more clearly and articulately (the messages are more personal and compelling). We are invested in this in a personal way. We believe in it and give our all to it and it might encourage others to join us”. INNOVATION “I don’t think we do anything the same we did 12 years ago. New responses to a whole new world.” CORE VALUES “We call that neighboring. Neighboring, dignity, development. I think we do all three things really well.” AGILITY “Agility. Having worked with a lot of organizations on our training, there are a lot of folks that want the same results we have but get frustrated because the line isn’t straight, but you have to accept that that is the way things are and have the agility to adapt. “Place” is at the center.”
“Resilience and flexibility (to tweak and adjust to what is needed)”
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT “Housing development. Continue to provide housing even with the challenges we face.”
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP/REPUTATION “Providing models for the city and country on how to do housing and we’re still pretty quiet, flying under the radar while we do this work. More deep and meaningful while we perfect our craft.”
“Our reputation. Being a quarterback. Other people are interested in our stance on various topics.”
IMPACT “Impact. (In Covid) Still being able to deliver food, Chromebooks, testing sites, repairs, rent, mortgage. She was new to the organization and got to see how FCS was able to make an impact. I couldn’t have come at a better time to see that type of compassion from an organization.” SCALE/GROWTH “Growth. Now that we are receiving more notoriety, people want to invest in us and I see us growing by leaps and bounds.” “Growing into some of our adjacent communities (now getting into other areas of housing outside of single-family homes), the financing options we offer to homeowners. Growing in the number of people we are touching.”
• Scale/Growth • Housing affordability • Partnerships/ Relationships • Inclusive
“The city is changing rapidly, so we’ll have to continue to adapt to a new reality as the city and neighborhood changes.”
Neighborhoods (Equity)
“This kind of growth can pose a threat to our core values. Was easier years ago to create trusting relationships. Footprint growth, we’re facing the challenge of growth drawing us away from proximity, quiet and deep.” HOUSING AFFORDABILITY “The current market for housing is a challenge (rising costs of properties and cost of construction). Have to be strategic about how we keep housing affordable for families in our community.” INCLUSIVE NEIGHBORHOODS (EQUITY) “Truly becoming a mixed income neighborhood. That is our mission and other neighborhoods have struggled with that. That is an area that I hope we can fill. A neighborhood that is welcoming and inclusive and not forcing legacy residents out so they can reap the benefits of the resources that are coming in.” COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT “More businesses will come (competition), opportunities to grow the business/sell the business.” “Continuing to have strategic partnerships when it comes to wraparound services. Having avenues to go down to meet those needs (example: mental health).”
• Community Economic
Development (strategic partnerships, transportation,
sidewalks, economic mobility) • Home Financing Opportunities
“Transportation (how people get in and around the neighborhood)” “The trend is toward more urban living so that works in our favor.” “The building of sidewalks, being able to walk in the neighborhood safely.”
“’Place’ is the most determining factor of economic mobility. FCS has been at/about that for a long time (just now a national conversation emerging that is bringing it into headlines). Presents opportunities for frameworks/models of how to do this really well. Purpose Built network says pay attention to voice, community alignment.”
HOME FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES “As we become a CDFI, providing financing (down payment assistance) programs.”
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