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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/11/flint_signs_deal_to_get_blight.html#incart_river
Flint signs deal to get blight elimination help from Land Bank, Center for Community Progress
Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on November 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM
Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
FLINT, MI -- The city's emergency manager has signed off on a deal aimed at allowing two groups to help Flint better develop its blight elimination plans.
Emergency manager Darnell Earley signed a resolution Nov. 6 to enter a partnership agreement with the Genesee County Land Bank and Center for Community Progress.
The agreement is designed to allowthe two groups to support the implementation of a Blight Elimination Framework that's been developed by the city and was released in draft form in March.
The draft plan says there are roughly 22,000 vacant properties in Flint, representing more than one-third of all property in the city. The plan concentrates on seven activities necessary for eliminating blight, including boarding up structures, mowing, code enforcement and demolition.
The agreement says the CCP will help the city finalize the BEF by the end of this month and says the group will review city programs, policies, structures and funding for blight elimination and provide recommendations to the city in the future.
"The city has identified blight elimination as (a) key objective in ... both the master plan and strategic plan," a staff review of the resolution says. "Toward this objective, the city along with CCP and (the Land Bank) developed a Blight Elimination Framework that identified over 20,000 properties in need of blight elimination over the course of five years.
"The (city) is limited in its capacity to address the scale and cost of this undertaking on its own," the review says.
Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
Here's an example of how the master plan can influence how the city deals with issues like blight from one neighborhood to the next:
In what's described as "traditional neighborhoods," for example, the best practice in the master plan calls for limiting demolitions to only substandard structures and clearing vacant sites of debris and building remnants in order to prepare sites for reinvestment and prevent poor conditions of a few existing properties from impacting neighborhood property values.
The best practice for a "green neighborhood" calls for continuing to demolish vacant and abandoned buildings in poor condition, and encouraging homeowners to acquire vacant lots adjacent to their properties for expanded yards.
Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
The Blight Elimination Framework was developed as a result of the city's master planning process,
"The need for neighborhood stabilization emerged as an immediate priority during the planning process," according to the draft report.
"Not only does the master plan present n opportunity to coordinate multiple blight removal activities by multiple actors, but also an opportunity to align blight removal with other redevelopment and revitalization efforts."
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http://www.idealist.org/view/org/Hm7SW7w8thmD/
Center for Community Progress
Nonprofit or community organization
Last modified: 7 months ago
Description
Founded in 2010, the Center for Community Progress is the only national 501(c)3 nonprofit organization solely dedicated to building a future in which entrenched, systemic blight no longer exists in American communities. The mission of Community Progress is to ensure that communities have the vision, knowledge, and systems to transform blighted, vacant, and other problem properties into assets supporting neighborhood vitality. As a national leader on solutions for blight and vacancy, Community Progress serves as the leading resource for local, state and federal policies and best practices that address the full cycle of property revitalization, from blight prevention, through the acquisition and maintenance of problem properties, to their productive reuse. Major support for Community Progress is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford Foundation. More information is available at www.communityprogress.net. |
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:51 am |
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| Major support for Community Progress is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford Foundation. More information is available at www.communityprogress.net. |
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:54 am |
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Mott Foundation sends $2 million renewal grant to Flint & Genesee chamber
Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on November 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM
FLINT, MI -- The Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce is getting a boost of more than $2 million from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The foundation announced the renewal grant in a Twitter message tTuesday, Nov. 18. Its Web site said the funding will help pay for "economic development and education and training services to the greater Flint area."
Janice Karcher, vice president of economic development for the chamber, said the Mott Foundation support "gives us the opportunity to have a robust program of outreach" in promoting the area.
"(This) helps us reach out to companies and ... make sure they get the support they need to succeed in the community," Karcher said. "(This is) a great partnership (and) we are very appreciative."
The Mott Foundation announcement said that in addition to business attraction, the grant to the chamber's Genesee Area Focus Fund provides the community with workforce education, training programs and special initiative projects.
The chamber's Web site describes the purpose of the Focus Fund as receiving and administering funds dedicated to improving the economy and quality of life of the people of Genesee County.
Last year, a $850,000 grant was awarded to the Focus Fund by the Mott Foundation. |
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Searched for: CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS
ID Num: 70518N
Assumed Names Center for Community Progress
Entity Name: CENTER FOR LAND REFORM, INC.
Type of Entity: Domestic Nonprofit Corporation
Resident Agent: TAMAR SHAPIRO
Registered Office Address: 111 E COURT ST STE 2C-1 FLINT MI 48502
Mailing Address: MI
Formed Under Act Number(s): 162-1982
Incorporation/Qualification Date: 8-11-2009
Jurisdiction of Origin: MICHIGAN
Number of Shares: 0
Year of Most Recent Annual Report: 14
Year of Most Recent Annual Report With Officers & Directors: 14
Status: ACTIVE Date: Present |
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:03 am |
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Phil Shaltz was a director or executive board member until 2014.
Amy Hovey, long associated with Dan Kildee, the land bank and Kildee's Flint office, initially served as the Chief operating officer. Tamar Shapiro took over in December 2010.
Secretary and Director Lisa Levy lives in New York.
Director Dane Silva Martinez lived in San Diego California.
Director Ellen Lee lived in New Orleans LA.
Director William Johnson lived in Rochester New York
Dan Kildee was the President in 2011.
Most filings use the address of directors and officers as the address of the non profit. |
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:18 am |
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http://www.communityprogress.net/tamar-shapiro-pages-364.php
Tamar Shapiro
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tamar Shapiro is President and CEO of the Center for Community Progress. She has more than a decade of experience working on state, regional, and local policies related to land use, economic development, housing, transportation, and the environment.
Prior to joining the Center in December 2012, Tamar was Senior Director of Urban and Social Policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), where she managed transatlantic urban policy programs and networks with a particular focus on the revitalization of older, industrial cities. Previously, Tamar served as the Director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute and the Governors’ Institute on Community Design at Smart Growth America. In this role, she advised governors and their cabinet officials on state policies related to growth and development. An attorney by training, Tamar Shapiro also worked at Klein Hornig, LLP, a law firm specialized in affordable housing development, where she represented public housing authorities as well as developers in mixed-finance affordable housing development deals.
Tamar received a McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Affairs to conduct a 2010 research project on vacant property policies in former East Germany. In 1999-2000, she was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin and worked at the Berlin Administration on Urban Planning and Environment as well as the German Institute for Urban Affairs.
© 2014 Center For Community Progress
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:21 am |
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Our Board
Ellen M. Lee, Chair
New Orleans, LA
President, EML Enterprises, LLC
Michael Tierney, Treasurer
Chief Operating Officer, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (retired)
Washington, DC
Lisa Levy, Secretary
Portland, OR
Geoff Anderson
President and CEO, Smart Growth America
Washington, DC
Mike Brown
President, Prima Civitas Foundation
East Lansing, MI
Margaret Dewar
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Ann Arbor, MI
Presley Gillespie
President, Neighborhood Allies
Pittsburgh, PA
William A. Johnson
Former Mayor, Rochester, New York
CEO, Strategic Community Intervention, LLC
Rochester, NY
Erika Poethig
Institute Fellow and Director of Urban Policy Initiatives, The Urban Institute
Washington, DC
Scot Spencer
Assistant Director for Advocacy and Influence, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Baltimore, MD
© 2014 Center For Community Progress
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