MACDC 40th Anniversary Celebration and Convention Program Book

MACDC Convention & Anniversary Celebration 2022

Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations

MACDC Convention & Anniversary Celebration 2022

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MACDC Convention Agenda OCTOBER 29, 2022

PART 1

9:30 am - 10 am Welcome, Gratitude & Board Elections

PART 2

10 am - 11 am Racial Equity Pledge & Awards Presentations featuring Governor Baker

PART 3

11am - 12:30 pm MACDC Policy Agenda Rollout & Gubernatorial Candidate Forum CDC Roll Call

RICANNE HADRIAN AWARD

Marilyn Forman, Codman Square NDC Marilyn is a lifelong advocate for her home community. Affectionally called the “Mayor of Dorchester” due to her incredible ability to build a sense of community, she began organizing to improve her neighborhood at the age of 11 when she marched to her city councilor’s office and called on them to install a basketball court on her street.

Marilyn continues to remain heavily involved in her community. She serves on the board of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council, has been involved in youth programs with the Four Corners Action Coalition and is the acting leader of the Erie-Ellington-Brinsley Partnership. For the past 12 years Marilyn has served as the Lead Organizer, and now Interim Community Organizing Director, at the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation. In this capacity Marilyn helped to lead a successful community organizing campaign that brought transit justice to the low/moderate-income, predominantly BIPOC, Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Roxbury, and Mattapan. The campaign successfully advocated for the addition of 4 new train stops on the Fairmount train line within neighborhoods that had previously been bypassed for decades. As a result of Marilyn’s efforts, residents can now actually use and benefit from the rail line that runs through their neighborhoods.

In 2020 Marilyn designed, launched, and facilitated Codman Square’s Resident Leadership Institute to provide residents with training that grounds them in the principles of civic engagement, community advocacy, effective organizing, and meeting facilitation. This program was so successful that it caught the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who reached out to Marilyn to ask her to serve as a Community Mentor for their Civic Media Co-Design Studio (civic media is the use of various media/communication platforms to enhance civic engagement). Marilyn is a champion of community and of resident leadership and an inspiration to her colleagues at Codman Square NDC and across the Commonwealth.

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RISING STAR AWARD

Shantel Alix Fernandez, North Shore CDC Shantel is amazing! She is a newly minted Director of Community Building at NSCDC, after serving as a LISC Americorps, Community Engagement Coordinator and Community Engagement Manager.

Shantel is a natural leader and gifted connector. She loves people, community, learning & teaching & it all makes her a very effective community builder. Under her leadership, NSCDC launched a Resident Ambassador program in 2020 to develop the next generation of leaders in our core community, Salem’s Point Neighborhood. That team brings capacity to work on all sorts of issues important to the community. Under her leadership, NSCDC Resident Ambassadors are eyes and ears to the community on strategic initiatives, resource distribution within the Point Neighborhood served by NSCDC, and they represent a burgeoning pipeline of leadership from all stripes - a pipeline that Shantel naturally cultivated through her warm and generous leadership spirit.

Shantel now represents NSCDC on other non-profit boards and civic working groups as she has become a well-respected leader in the community as a whole.

She is truly a Rising Star!

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RISING STAR AWARD

Pedro Cruz, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción Pedro has been working in IBA’s Youth Development Program (YDP) for the past six years; first, as a Youth Program Coordinator and more recently as YDP’s Director. Before that, Pedro was a resident of IBA’s community of Villa Victoria and a participant in their youth program when he was a teen. From early on, people recognized him as a strong peer leader and he has continued to grow over the years. He has become a strong Latino leader committed to supporting young people in the community, fighting for racial equity and advancing community development.

Through Pedro’s leadership and commitment to Latinx and urban youth, he has helped young people gain and develop academic, critical thinking, writing and artistic skills. Pedro is an accomplished artist himself, and seizes his own creative talents to engage youth in conversations about the challenges and opportunities they face, providing them the space to be civically involved and become agents of change. Pedro will be sharing one of his own poems at the MACDC Convention.

Growing up in the community and going through their Youth Development Program as a teen, Pedro has become a strong role model and mentor to young people. YDP participants often share how Pedro’s guidance, coaching and mentoring have helped them stay on track with their academic, personal and career goals. Pedro is very personable and an effective communicator, which helps him connect with diverse segments of the community as well as with policy makers, funders, and influential leaders. He is an organizer at heart and is able to mobilize not only young people, but also members of IBA’s team and Villa Victoria residents. He has helped expand the youth program and increased community participation during his tenure at IBA. Throughout the pandemic, he helped create virtual learning pods to support students during the virtual learning experience.

Pedro continues to build his leadership skills. He recently graduated from the Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP) Program which he completed while also continuing his stellar work at IBA.

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RISING STAR AWARD

Paige Leahy, Island Housing Trust Since the moment Paige joined IHT in early January 2021 she has been integral in furthering IHT’s fundraising efforts. Paige is an innovator, using her design skills to help IHT dramatically improve the graphic elements of presentation decks, grant proposals, and online appeals. The greeting card she designed to renew lapsed donors helped IHT raise over $70,000 last fall.

Paige is a leader, marshalling volunteer solicitors to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of affordable housing by inspiring them to use the online Give Lively platform to fundraise from friends and family. As well, her skill at event planning has positioned IHT board and staff to help deepen our engagement with donors at in-person events. In the calendar year 2020, before Paige joined IHT, IHT raised $3M in private funding from 676 donors. In her first full year of service, IHT raised $3.8M from 842 donors, thanks in no small part due to Paige’s skill in helping IHT communicate its mission with greater flair.

Paige is an achiever, consistently meeting targets in a high pressure environment in which prospect research, database administration, and donor and volunteerfacing engagement all have to be juggled simultaneously. Paige has been exceptionally strong in administering IHT’s Community Investment Tax Credits, preparing IHT for its successful CDC recertification. She is thoroughly versed in the granular detail of how IHT achieves its successes and consistently exhibits that institutional knowledge in written and in-person exchanges with donors and other stakeholders. Paige was recently promoted from Development Associate to Advancement Officer within her first year of service in recognition of Paige’s developing expertise in cultivating, stewarding, and soliciting private funding. She is a key player in helping IHT achieve our mission: Building Homes & Preserving Community.

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2022-2023 MACDC Board Nominations Returning Board Members to serve through Fall 2023

Board Members Up for Election (to serve through Fall 2024)

Gail Latimore, Codman Square NDC (Boston)

Colleen Loveless, Revitalize CDC (West)

Marc Dohan, NewVue Communities (Central)

Vanessa Calderón Rosado, IBA (at-large)

Robert Corley, NeighborWorks Housing Solutions (Southeast)

Rafael Mares, The Neighborhood Developers (Greater Boston)

David Christopolis, Hilltown CDC (West)

Gonzalo Puigbo, Somerville CC (Greater Boston)

Mickey Northcutt, North Shore CDC (Northeast)

Casey Starr, Main South CDC (Central)

Angie Liou, Asian CDC (at-large)

Suneeth John, Fenway CDC (Boston)

Leslie Reid, Madison Park DC (at-large)

Teronda Ellis, JPNDC (Boston)

Kimberly Lyle, Dorchester Bay EDC (Boston)

Diane Smith, WayFinders (at-large)

Emilio Dorcely, Urban Edge (Boston)

Yun-Ju Choi, Coalition for a Better Acre (at-large)

Jay Coburn, CDP (Southeast) MACDC Officers CHAIR – Angie Liou, Asian CDC VICE CHAIR – Emilio Dorcely, Urban Edge TREASURER – Mickey Northcutt, North Shore CDC CLERK – Casey Starr, Main South CDC

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MACDC Board Chairs (1982-2022) 1982-1986 | Syvalia Hyman, United Development Corporation (South End) 1987-1989 | John Taylor, Somerville Community Corporation 1990-1991 | Richard Thal, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción 1992 | David Knowles, Dorchester Bay EDC 1993-1994 | Evelyn Friedman, Nuestra Communidad 1995-1996 | Martin Nee, South Boston NDC 1997-1998 | Kathi Jaworski, Franklin County CDC 1999-2000 | James Haskell, Salem Harbor CDC 2001-2002 | Robert Van Meter, Allston Brighton CDC 2003-2004 | Danny LeBlanc, Somerville Community Corporation 2005 | Gwen Pelletier, Lower Cape Cod CDC 2006-2007 | Joanne Campbell, Valley CDC 2008-2009 | Richard Thal, Jamaica Plain NDC 2010-2011 | Charles Rucks, Springfield NHS 2012-2013 | Marc Dohan, Twin Cities CDC 2014-2015 | Gail Latimore, Codman Square NDC 2016-2017 | Rob Corley, Neighborworks Housing Solutions 2018-2019 | Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción 2020-2021 | Dave Christopolis, Hilltown CDC 2022 – present | Angie Liou, Asian CDC

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Honorary Co-Chairs Governor Charlie Baker Former Governor Deval Patrick

Host Committee Jay Ash, Co-Chair Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Linda Dorcena-Forry, Co-Chair Suffolk Construction Kathy Gasperine, Member Amalgamated Bank Delisa Joseph, Member Needham Bank Clark Ziegler, Member Massachusetts Housing Partnership Robert Rivers, Member Eastern Bank

Larry Curtis, Member WinnCompanies Roger Herzog, Member CEDAC Chris Oddleifson, Member Rockland Trust Jeanne Pinado, Member Collier Real Estate Sarah Lamitie, Member Boston Private Aaron Gornstein, Member Preservation of Affordable Housing

Kristen Harol, Member The Life Initiative

Kathy McGilvray, Member Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Grace Lee, Member M&T Bank

Michelle Meiser, Member Cambridge Trust

Teresa Santalucia, Member Klein Hornig

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We Thank Our Generous Sponsors PRESENTING SPONSOR

LEAD INVESTOR Eastern Bank JP Morgan Chase MHIC

Rockland Trust Silicon Valley Bank The Boston Foundation

PRINCIPAL INVESTOR Baystate Health LDS Consulting MassDevelopment Massachusetts Housing Partnership

NeighborWorks America United Way Mass Bay Merr. Valley WinnCompanies

CATALYTIC INVESTOR Amalgamated Bank Boston Children’s Hospital CohnReznick Dellbrook Intercreativa Design M&T Bank Madison Park DC

Mass Competitive Partnership MGCC Needham Bank NeighborWorks Housing Solutions POAH Point32Health The Life Initiative

START-UP INVESTOR Allston Brighton CDC Cambridge Trust CEDAC Community Development Partnership Davis Square Architects Dedham Savings

Federal Home Loan Bank Hampden Park Capital and Consulting InSource Klein Hornig LISC Boston NEI General Contracting

New Boston Ventures New Ecology Peabody Properties Nolan Sheehan Patten The Community Builders Way Finders

SEED INVESTOR Ann Silverman Consulting Asian CDC Citizens Bank Cooperative Fund of New England Fenway CDC Franklin County CDC Diane Gordon Consulting Harborlight Homes

Bald Hill Builders Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción Island Housing Trust Licata Risk Advisors Metro Housing Boston Metro West CD Nina Schwarzchild Nuestra CDC Peter Munkenbeck

Reisen Design Associates Resonant Energy Revitalize CDC Mathew Thall TD Bank Vermont Mutual Insurance Group VietAID

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SVB is proud to support Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations Investing in our neighborhoods, and financing homebuyers, small businesses and community development.

Congratulations on 40 years!

©2022 SVB Financial Group. Silicon Valley Bank Member FDIC.

The Boston Foundation is bursting with pride that we were there at the beginning in 1982 with early funding for MACDC! We proudly support your Convention and 40th Anniversary celebration. Thank you for your tireless work and highly effective advocacy over the last four decades—and for your deep commitment to expanding and maintaining affordable housing for all of the Commonwealth’s individuals and families.

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We salute MACDC For 40 years of dedication to creating places of opportunity for all #cdcswork

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Expanding housing.

Creating jobs.

Building value.

We issued a $15.8 million tax-exempt bond to Nuestra CDC for the development of Dudley Crossing in Roxbury.

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Congratulations to MACDC on their 40th Anniversary!

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Congratulations MACDC for 40 Years of Enriching the lives of low income families through advocacy and housing.

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Congratulations to MACDC on 40 years of advancing housing and economic justice in our region. United Way is proud to partner with MACDC and Community Development Corporations across the state to ensure individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive.

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BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES TAKES VISION. We are proud to support the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations and this year’s annual meeting.

Kevin Martin, CPA, Partner, and the Partners at CohnReznick cohnreznick.com

Michael Schoenfeld

Thank you Massachusetts Association of Community Development

Corporations for 40 years of work

creating opportunities for all people to live with dignity and participate in the local economy.

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Thank you for 40 years of advancing equitable communities MACDC’s leadership fosters vibrant Massachusetts communities where all can thrive.

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@POAH Communities

Congratulations!

The Life Initiative is proud to support MACDC and to have invested in 51 of its member CDCs.

Thank you MACDC for 40 years of empowering communities and transforming lives Congratulations to MACDC on your 40th Anniversary!

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