SOAR – LEADERSHIP
Leadership
What They Said
COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP “Partnerships. We can’t do it all. Deep long-term neighborhood commitment. Improve our ability to get the funding we need. Brand - and still being authentic. As things tend to get bigger, you lose personal touch. We have been neighborhood-focused, faith based. If we do our job well, we work ourselves out of a job. FCS doesn’t get the win, South Atlanta does”.
• To create more community ownership (land trust, community investment trust) • Home financing opportunities (FCS Community Finance – CDFI) • Partnerships (political alliances) • Scale/Growth • Thought leadership
“We could be a leader in Atlanta for community investment trust.”
“South Atlanta is a neighborhood that everyone would like to move to. We can protect those that thrive in the neighborhood.”
“I see us thinking about our next and future neighborhoods. They may remain urban. We may need to think differently about where we work and how we work.”
“For example, tax credit model”
INNOVATION “Continue to scale our work and be the thought leader in development community. Filling in gaps where we aren’t planning currently (early education, healthcare, etc.) We need to be able to fit and manage those partnerships.” “Make FCS Community Finance - CDFI. Creating systems that are inclusive are opportunities to grow and scale. South Atlanta is a neighborhood that everyone would like to move to. We can protect those that thrive in the neighborhood.”
PARTNERSHIPS “I don’t know what our future will look like. Same values, same approach. We’re pretty nimble and entrepreneurial, We may have to change our strategy and get involved in policy. Working with the next mayor.”
“If we have policies in place, as people put apartments, and they have purview to see us as a partner.”
SCALE/GROWTH “3 metrics in the neighborhood. We want to see those benchmark increase in scale. Each benchmark has 4 metrics in it. We want to see these move.”
• Increased equitable, diverse homeownership • Increased neighborhood income levels • Improved housing and community economic development • Team longevity • Economic liability • Relational mobility • High performing schools • Access to health and wellness
REFLECT VALUES “Overly simplistic, we’re following our values. Dignity, Neighboring and Developing. There’s a difference between results and impact. How do we measure the value of what our moms did? One of our strengths of FCS is we will invest overtime. Those things produce results.” “We know the direction we’re headed. We need to refresh the aspiration. Our work has always been rooted in racial equity. We’ve been a do-good ministry and disrupting systems that are using economics, but we aren’t telling that story explicitly. It’s institutionalized in our culture, but it’s not in our processes and systems. “ COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT “Income level in the neighborhood should improve to include level neighborhood is showing a commensurate increase in income as it related to the city.” “Flourishing Neighborhood Index. Sometimes you can measure that Economic indicators, crime, education, different ways to capture information. We have done intuitively and now we have this measure. We need to continue to flush that out and invest in it.” “Tangible Outcomes: All children have cradle to college education. That we increase life expectancy Wealth is created for our families through high employment and assets. Vibrant local businesses (locally owned businesses)”
“Double down on the F&I meaning. I would clarify the linkages of score to benchmark. Neighborhood - housing should improve. Economic development - should tie to tell us that we’re making progress.
“Map every house of the neighborhood to Flourishing index.”
“We have created the flourishing neighborhood index.”
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