COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF ANNUAL REPORT 2018 WHERE DETROIT HAPPENS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LETTER WHO WE ARE

CDAD is a membership organization for community development Dear Friends, and neighborhood improvement groups, enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of its members and detroit residents through 2018 was the 20th anniversary for Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD). For twenty advocacy, training, technical assistance, information sharing, years we have worked to effectively serve our members, the organizations that work to make Detroit’s education, and facilitating common action. neighborhoods better for all. This year, we continued our focus on Building Neighborhood Power through public policy advocacy, community engagement, capacity building and specific projects focused on supporting and fostering strong neighborhoods.

CDAD increased its reach, member benefits, general membership and funding. Our partnerships and collaborative projects have grown. Our storytelling initiative grew to include a partnership with Detroit Public Television to highlight member work and better inform media stories. Our advocacy on affordable housing needs resulted in valuable data, reports and partnerships that cross sectors. We expanded our community engagement work, supporting engagement processes for neighborhood planning work throughout the city.

We tried new things in an effort to better connect and engage with members. Our Lunch & Learns were the most well-attended of any ever, hosted in different locations by CDAD members. We held subject-matter conversations during membership meetings to connect members with similar interests. Our storytelling services for and about members increased and have greater reach.

2018 was also a year of other milestones for CDAD. We were honored to be selected as a 2018 recipient of the Neighborhood Builders Award from Bank of America. This generous award supports not only CDAD operations and leadership but also cultivates emerging leadership. We held our second annual Community Development Week with increased participation and a 20th anniversary reception honoring past and present CDAD leadership. OUR CORE VALUES

CDAD programs and activities are guided by these core values: The national narrative about Detroit is one of recovery and revitalization. CDAD members and the residents they serve recognize that this is not the complete story. We celebrate Detroit wins but will EQUITY the right of everyone to participate, make decisions and continue to support and advocate for our members working to achieve a recovery that is equitable determine the future of their neighborhoods and community. and benefits all Detroiters. INTERGRITY performing our work in a way that inspires trust, is Thank you for all that you do to make Detroit better. Thank you to our members, funders, and transparent, and accountable. partners for your continued participation, funding and support. We strive to do more and be better. RESPECT for ourselves, colleagues, members, partners and specifically the expertise of Detroit residents.

DIVERSITY appreciation and inclusion of different viewpoints, experiences, cultures and backgrounds throughout all Sarida Scott facets of our work. Executive Director NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS AWA R D

In September 2018, CDAD was honored with the Neighborhood Builders Award from Bank of America. Through Neighborhood Builders®, Bank of America invests in nonprofit leaders so that they can more effectively address pressing community COMMUNITY needs. This award provides a unique combination of leadership development for the executive director and an emerging leader, $200,000 in flexible funding DEVELOPMENT and a network of peer organizations across the U.S. WEEK

CDAD’s 2nd Annual Community Development Week engaged over 200 participants in nine events over five days to highlight Detroit’s Community Development sector and build networks and relationships.

Events Included

• Breaking in, and Building a Career in Community Development • CDAD’s 20th Anniversary Reception • Detroit 67 Project Placemaking Tour • Community Development: Beyond Bricks and Mortar • Racial Equity Training, Foreclosure Update from the Coalition to End Unconstitutional Tax Foreclosures • Real Talk Real Change: Who is Planning the Future of Your Neighborhood • Capacity Building for Community Development Practitioners • The Connected Communities Approach 2018 MILESTONES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Through meaningful community engagement, we support residents and neighborhood-based organizations to guide the vision for Detroit’s future. We foster thoughtful collaboration, resource- sharing and networking among our more than 150 members to help create strong and vibrant Detroit neighborhoods.

CDAD Events

CDAD hosts and partners on a range of events that help our members build capacity, lift their voices, and connect with critical information, resources and potential partners. In 2018, more than 1,000 people attended CDAD sponsored conferences, trainings, networking events, and more! CDAD Events

Caucus Meetings as important to Community Development. The five topic areas were: Funding/Organizational Sustainability, CDAD’s District Based Caucuses provide a platform Inclusion in Community Development Work (Youth/ for our members and other stakeholders in each City Diversity), Community Development Organization - Council District to share information, build relationships Grassroots Collaboration, Community Land Trusts, and improve partnerships across their district. Our City-CDAD Member Relations. district board representatives play a critical role as a connecting point between members in their district and CDAD and in planning caucus activities. Lunch and Learn Series

In 2018, CDAD hosted twelve Caucus meetings, with CDAD’s Lunch and Learn series aims to address over 250 attendees across all City Council Districts. trending community development topics through The Community Engagement team took a new approach collective conversation in a relaxed atmosphere. Each to the Caucus meetings, which included working Lunch and Learn was hosted at a different community closely with the CDAD District Board Representatives site. We invited a few practitioners to speak about the Community Engagement Consulting Services to plan the details of each meeting. With their thought selected topic and then opened up the discussion to partnership, all of the meetings had an agenda that was all attendees. With close to 70 attendees at the three reflective of the interests, needs and relevant events events, the conversations were robust and reflective As Detroit neighborhoods have been receiving increased city on its engagement efforts and played a central role and projects happening in that specific district. As a of many different perspectives on the selected topics. planning and development attention, CDAD has always in designing and organizing community outreach and result, each Caucus meeting had a unique format, with In 2019, we hosted discussions on Community put a priority on ensuring that our members are feedback activities. Specifically, CDAD led planning, different speakers covering a large range of topics. Development and Design, Community Organizing and appropriately engaged in any process that logistics, and facilitation of the following aspects of the Urban Agriculture. impacts their neighborhood. To that end, in 2018 Jefferson Chalmers planning process: Membership Meetings CDAD began working as a contracted community Developing Vibrant Communities engagement sub consultant to the City of Detroit and • “Residents in Action” stakeholder committee with CDAD hosted six Membership meetings over the other government agencies and successfully bid and 20 members meeting nine times to advise and give CDAD partners with CEDAM to present the annual course of the year and engaged over 160 attendees. In interviewed on several proposals. feedback to the planning process response to feedback from prior Membership meetings, Developing Vibrant Communities Conference. With • Four large “town hall” community meetings with we introduced a new meeting format. The first half of the over 170 people registered from all over the state In 2018, CDAD worked with the City of Detroit Planning over 125 attendees at each meeting included presentations, announcements and of , the 2018 conference provided a unique and Development Department to lead community • More than 25 focus groups and small meetings updates related to the sector, including presentations opportunity for Community Development practitioners engagement for the Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood attended from City officials, policy advocates, and local of all different backgrounds to learn and network with Framework plan. CDAD’s community engagement tea • Creation of the Jefferson Chalmers Citizens guide community development initiatives. The second half one another. The session offerings covered a diverse worked closed with City departments, the consultant with over 2,000 distributed and 500 surveys of each membership meeting consisted of recurring range of topics including neighborhood-based housing team, and Jefferson Chalmers residents and community completed topical table-top discussions for attendees to engage in and real estate development, financial empowerment, organizations to make sure that neighborhood residents • Door-to-door outreach and surveying deep-dive conversations around topics they identified fair housing policy and advocacy, inclusive engagement were actively involved in the planning and their voice • 8 weeks of public office hours with Planning capacity building for nonprofits and more. was heard throughout the process. CDAD advised the Department staff STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND STORYTELLING

CDAD’s Strategic Communications and Storytelling work are designed to enhance the voice of our member organizations through information sharing and content creation. CDAD’s monthly newsletter reaches an audience of over 2,100 recipients and our social media followers total over 6,000 across all platforms. We work with CDAD Members to produce storytelling content that is tailored to the individual needs of their organizations.

Community Storytelling Initiative

Engaging our member organizations to assist them in documenting their work and telling their stories of impact in Detroit neighborhoods has become a pillar of CDAD’s storytelling work. Since 2015, CDAD’s Community Storytelling Initiative has produced over 30 short films that have been viewed over 65,000 times. 2018 saw CDAD’s Community Storytelling Initiative produce 15 videos for member organizations that were viewed over 22,000 times.

• Three Videos produced for fundraising campaigns that raised a total of $25,800 for CDAD Member Organizations. • Generated $9,000 in contract work to produce Client Story videos for CDAD Member Organization Wayne Metro Community Action Agency. • Partnered with Detroit Public Television to produce Community-Based Journalism through community conversations with CDAD Members. Videos produced from this partnership have been viewed over 267,000 times and aired on Detroit Public Television’s weekly news and public affairs series One Detroit, shared online, and digitally distributed. COMMUNITY PLANNING

CDAD’s community planning work draws on the power of residents to shape their own neighborhoods. The process supports residents and local stakeholders to lead in developing a shared vision for their future. Plans include long and short-term actions to address land use, safety and security, economic development and other issues specific to each area.

Chadsey Condon Planning Building Bridges Across Cultural Divides CDAD worked with our member organization Bridging Communities Inc to support the Chadsey CDAD staff worked with our partners Welcoming Condon neighborhood to develop a shared vision Michigan and Global Detroit to work with residents for the future. CDAD staff worked with a committee in the East Davison area on the Detroit/Hamtramck of residents and other stakeholders to lead over 200 border to build stronger relationships across cultures. residents in public engagement activities including: The project was guided by a local committee of residents who worked together to plan a storytelling • Four community-wide participatory visioning event that featured stories from different cultures, sessions great food, and a live human chess game. The • Four tabling exercises at community events Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion • Two youth focus groups hosted a workshop about communication across • One focus group with a local business cultures to overcome conflict for members of the association community. Residents who participated continue to • Surveying at local events and schools meet and develop strategy to build a stronger, more connected community. The community is looking forward to implementing action items from their plan in 2019. CDAD’s Public Policy and Advocacy work is steered by the needs of our POLICY members working directly with residents in communities across Detroit. Our Policy ADVOCACY Agenda is developed from their direct input. We achieve policy goals through facilitation, organizing, partnerships and information sharing.

We prioritize our policy goals according to what our Benefits Ordinance, and​ Tax Foreclosure members consider to be timelier and more urgent. To Prevention. address our high-priority goals, we build partnerships To address the goals that are less urgent but still impact and coalitions with stakeholders working on the communities we partner with other organizations same issue. In 2018, our high-priority objectives focusing on the issue by showing support and sharing included: Affordable Housing, Community information on other issues of interest including:

Affordable Housing

In 2018, CDAD continued advocating for housing that’s Planning Program to develop a report that provides affordable to low-income Detroiters through research, promising practices for addressing challenges faced by coalition work and advocating with elected officials and LIHTC properties at Year 15. policy makers. CDAD is a member of the Detroit Housing Trust CDAD leads the Affordable Housing Workgroup Fund Coalition which continued pushing for adequate which includes CDAD members, Detroit LISC, other funding of the Affordable Housing Development and community development financial institutions, Preservation Fund by hosting a town hall meeting. affordable housing experts and the City of Detroit The meeting was held in collaboration with national Housing and Revitalization Department. A large number partners, Center for Community Change and Detroit of LIHTC units could be converted to market-rate by City Council President Pro Tempore Mary Sheffield to 2022. The workgroup partnered with a graduate student educate Detroit residents about the fund. There were from the University of Michigan’s Urban and Regional about 100 residents in attendance. FINANCIAL STATEMENT SUPPORT JAN - DEC 2018 2018 Funders

Enterprise Community Partners Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Erb Family Foundation Ralph C. Wilson Foundation Ford Foundation Knight Foundation Kresge Foundation Citizens Bank Skillman Foundation Huntington Bank Bank of America Comerica Bank JPMorgan Chase

Income Expenses 2018 Members

12th Street Community Development Corporation Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice 360 Detroit Inc. Develop Detroit Abayomi Community Development Corp. Doing Development Differently in Accounting Aid Society Dream of Detroit African American Bus. MI Opp. Com. Corp. Eastside Community Network Ana Diaz EcoWorks Foundation Grants: 80% Salaries & Benefits: 50% Andrea Brown Eden Gardens Block Club Andy Ross Eric Dueweke Bank Grants: 14% Professional Fees: 12% Annie Mendoza Families Standing Together Other Grants: 1% Contributed Services: >1% Bagley Community Council Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis Bank Suey Focus: HOPE Program Fees: 3% Program Expenses: 30% Belle Isle Conservancy Francis Grunow – Paris of the Midwest Bennett Street Block Club Gary Gray Member Dues: 1% Rent: 2% Bike Share Gateway Community Organization Miscellaneous: >1% Staff Training & Travel: 1% Binder Street Block Club GenesisHOPE CDC BlockClub in the Park Greenview Block Club Meetings & Conferences: 2% Bridging Communities Inc. Global Detroit Office Supplies & Overhead: 2% Brightmoor Alliance Good Jobs Now Education Fund Brilliant Detroit Greater Sandhill Neighborhood Association & Oak Grove BUILD Institute Block Club Association Building Community Value Hereford Street Block Club Canfield Consortium Historic Boston-Edison Association Capital Impact Partners Hope Community Outreach and Development Central Detroit Christian CDC IFF Chadsey-Condon Community Organization Jacqueline Williams Chateaufort Place Cooperative - Lafayette Park Jefferson East Inc. Income by Type Expenditures by Type CHN Housing Partners Joy Community Association Church of the Messiah Housing Corporation Joy-Southfield CDC Foundation Grants: $1,191,500.00 Salaries & Benefits: $485,216.22 Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance JP Morgan Chase Foundation Bank Grants: $218,500.00 Professional Fees: $113,830.89 College Core Block Club Karen Brown Other Grants: $24,654.33 Contributed Services: $4,900.00 College Park Community Assocation Katherine Ralston Community & Home Supports Lanita Carter Program Fees: $43,255.00 Program Expenses: $294,874.97 Community Housing Network Lesley Hairston Member Dues: $12,230.00 Rent: $17,705.30 Community Services CDC The Detroit Muslim Mission Let’s Do Something Detroit Miscellaneous: $5,002.67 Staff Training & Travel: $10,092.14 Cooperative Capital LGBT Detroit Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS) Libby Levy Meeting & Conferences: $23,170.66 Crane Street Block Club Linda Bowie Total Income: $1,495,142.00 Office Supplies & Overhead: $19,292.58 DeSoto Ellsworth Block Association MACC Development Detroit Bike Share – MoGo Mack Alive CDC Total Expenditures: $969,082.76 Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance Manistique Block Club 200-300 Block Detroit Collaborative Design Center Margaret Dewar Detroit Development Fund Marllborough Essex Culinary Corner & Community Commons Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Matrix Human Services Detroit Food Policy Council McKenna Associates Detroit Fututre City Meaghan Markiewicz These financial statements have not been subjected to an audit, review or compilation engagement and no assurance is provided on them. Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation SUPPORT CDAD STAFF

2018 Members Continued

Medvis Jackson Richard Smith Michigan Historic Preservation Network SER Metro-Detroit Michigan Immigrant Rights Center – Welcoming Michigan Shelby Harrison Midwest Civic Council Sinai-Grace Guild CDC Nardin Park Improvement Rock Single Family Living National Community Stabilization Trust Southwest Detroit Business Association National Faith Homebuyers Southwest Detroit Community Justice Center Neighborhood Legal Services Michigan Southwest Housing Solutions New Hope Community Development Spin Inc. Sarida Scott Madhavi Reddy Aaron Goodman North Rosedale Park Civic Association Stuart Jacobson Executive Director Place-Based Initiatives Community Engagement Northend Neighborhood Patrol Taylor Teasdale Manager Manager Northend Neighbors Block Club TechTown Nortown CDC The Boynton Subsector 48217 Core Group Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition The Caldwell Group LLC Oakland Avenue Urban Farm The Cooperation Group O’Hair Park Community Association The Villages CDC Opportunity Resource Fund Theodore Buckner Orletta Caldwell U of D Mercy Master Community Development Association U of M Law School: Patrick Cooper-McCann Community & Economic Development Clinic People for U SNAP BAC Pinehurst Block Club Unity in Our Community TimeBank Pink Elephant Products and Events L3C Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Kyra Thomas Akua Hill Troy Anderson Powerhouse Productions Vanguard CDC Office Manager Community Engagement Communications Preservation Detroit Voices for Earth Justice Associate Associate Princeton Street Block Club Warrendale Community Organization Ralph Leach West Euclid Express Block Club Ramona Douglas West Outer Drive Civic Association Revive Detroit CDC Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp.

BOARD LaToya Morgan Shirley Davis Yolanda Jackson Public Policy Manager Community Engagement Community Planning Associate Associate Delphine Jackson, Bennet Street Block Club, District 1 Eleanore Eveleth, Sinai-Grace Guild CDC, District 2 LISC Americorps Members Pat Bosh, Nortown Community Development Corporation, District 3 Michelle Lee, Jefferson East Inc., District 4 Jerri Ann Hebron, Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, District 5 Phyllis Edwards, Bridging Communities Inc., Chair, District 6 Kenyetta Campbell, Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance, District 7 Christianne Malone, Build Institute, CDO/NIO At-Large Report Credit Sam Butler, Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit, CDO/NIO At-Large

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