MACDC 40th Anniversary Celebration and Convention Program Book

Anniversary Celebration 2022

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MACDC Convention Agenda

OCTOBER

RICANNE

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 success fully 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 leader ship and an inspiration to her colleagues at Codman Square NDC and across the Commonwealth.

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!

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.

RISING STAR

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.

2022-2023 MACDC Board Nominations

Returning Board Members to serve through Fall 2023

Gail Latimore, Codman Square NDC (Boston)

Marc Dohan, NewVue Communities (Central)

Robert Corley, NeighborWorks Housing Solutions (Southeast)

David Christopolis, Hilltown CDC (West)

Mickey Northcutt, North Shore CDC (Northeast)

Angie Liou, Asian CDC (at-large)

Leslie Reid, Madison Park DC (at-large)

Kimberly Lyle, Dorchester Bay EDC (Boston)

Emilio Dorcely, Urban Edge (Boston)

Jay Coburn, CDP (Southeast)

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

Colleen Loveless, Revitalize CDC (West)

Vanessa Calderón Rosado, IBA (at-large)

Rafael Mares, The Neighborhood Developers (Greater Boston)

Gonzalo Puigbo, Somerville CC (Greater Boston)

Casey Starr, Main South CDC (Central)

Suneeth John, Fenway CDC (Boston)

Teronda Ellis, JPNDC (Boston)

Diane Smith, WayFinders (at-large)

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

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

MACDC Board Chairs (1982-2022)

Syvalia Hyman, United Development Corporation (South End)

John Taylor, Somerville Community Corporation

Richard Thal, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción

David Knowles, Dorchester Bay EDC

Evelyn Friedman, Nuestra Communidad

Martin Nee, South Boston NDC

Kathi Jaworski, Franklin County CDC

James Haskell, Salem Harbor CDC

Robert Van Meter, Allston Brighton CDC

Danny LeBlanc, Somerville Community Corporation

Gwen Pelletier, Lower Cape Cod CDC

Joanne Campbell, Valley CDC

Richard Thal, Jamaica Plain NDC

Charles Rucks, Springfield NHS

Marc Dohan, Twin Cities CDC

Gail Latimore, Codman Square NDC

Rob Corley, Neighborworks

Solutions

Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción

Dave Christopolis, Hilltown CDC

Angie Liou, Asian CDC

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

Kristen Harol, Member The Life Initiative

Grace Lee, Member M&T Bank

Teresa Santalucia, Member Klein Hornig

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

Kathy McGilvray, Member Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Michelle Meiser, Member Cambridge Trust

We Thank Our Generous Sponsors

PRESENTING SPONSOR

LEAD INVESTOR

Eastern Bank

JP Morgan Chase

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

Allston Brighton CDC Cambridge Trust CEDAC Community Development Partnership

Square Architects

Savings

Ann Silverman Consulting Asian CDC Citizens Bank

Fund of New England Fenway CDC Franklin County CDC Diane Gordon Consulting Harborlight Homes

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

START-UP INVESTOR

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

SEED INVESTOR

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

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

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

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. For more about the Boston Foundation, visit tbf.org.

The Boston Foundation

MACDC

TO MAKE CHANGE THAT LASTS.

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.

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

Communitieswww.poah.org

Michael Schoenfeld