MOVING UP IN THE BOLD CITY Community Leaders Igniting Mobility WELCOME Jacksonville has a bright future on the horizon with new developments in our Downtown and historic neighborhoods: from bright new ideas for our waterfront, an ambitious new transit center, an expanding vision for our sports district, to restoration of historic buildings. We are the Bold City of dreamers and doers. And, while we are building on a long legacy of innovation and rich vision, we have struggled to offer every resident of Jacksonville an equal opportunity to share in this vision. JOIN US Like many other cities across the South, we have struggled with the legacy of poverty and oppression. Simultaneously, we have wrestled with intergenerational poverty. In 2015, 37% of Jacksonville Households Launch Event were either living in poverty or struggling to afford basic needs, and 66% of children born to a Jacksonville August 25, 2018 family living in the lowest 20% of the economic spectrum will spend their lives in poverty.1 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Weaver Center for This is why we believe increasing upward economic mobility needs to be a central focus as we continue Community Outreach to grow and develop as a city. By actively viewing economic mobility as a necessary feature of our growth and development we can continue to build our vision, while dismantling our legacy of intergenerational poverty. We can lift each other up, and move forward, together. Community Forum 1 New Town In order for meaningful change in economic mobility to occur in Jacksonville, we believe that community September 27, 2018 engagement is essential. Neighborhood residents are the experts of their homes, streets, and communities. So, in the Fall of 2018, we will be working with Jacksonville neighborhoods and employers to identify their needs, priorities, and ideas to promote economic mobility in their communities. Community Forum 2 Springfield / Eastside We have decided to focus on three communities in the city of Jacksonville to begin this work: New Town, November 1, 2018 Arlington, and the Eastside/Springfield community.2 We have picked these neighborhoods because of a history of strong leadership and significant economic challenges. We will focus on the major roadblocks Employer Talent that stand in the way of young people advancing in their education and careers, and will use the ideas generated through these events to set the priorities for our work in the coming years. We are excited to Innovation Summit work together and lay the groundwork for a city where everyone has a chance to CLIMB. November 8, 2018 Omni Jacksonville A special thanks to all of the many partners who helped to make this informational packet possible: Liz Lufrano of The United Way of Northeast Florida; the NSEM Steering Committee; Corinne Spears, Gabe Community Forum 3 Isaacson, and the McKinsey Team who put all of this research together and made such beautiful graphics. Many thanks to Generation Retail Career Advancement funder, Walmart. Arlington December 6, 2018 1 Data Source: 2017 United Way ALICE Report Florida Update 2 Eastside and Springfield are two different neighborhoods who share a common boarder. We have decided to bring them together for the purposes of this work because much of the data available looks at the two neighborhoods together. CLIMB is connecting leaders across our downtown Jacksonville neighborhoods: students and parents; educators and service providers; employers and civic leaders. CLIMB aims to bring the whole community of leaders together to identify, understand, and disrupt the roadblocks to mobility for citizens of Jacksonville. Together, as a community, we will climb to prosperity. Today, more than 75 million young adults are out of work globally, and three times as many are underemployed. At the same time, 40 percent of employers say a skills shortage is leaving them with entry-level vacancies. Generation is a youth employment nonprofit with a dual mission to empower young people to build thriving, sustainable careers and to provide employers the highly skilled, motivated talent they need. To date, more than 20,000 young adults have graduated from the Generation program, which prepares young adults for careers in 65 cities and 155 locations across seven countries. Generation works with 1,700+ employer partners and a wide range of implementation partners and funders. The organization was founded by McKinsey & Company in 2014. About United Way of Northeast Florida With a rich 93-year history, United Way of Northeast Florida is a respected and efficient philanthropic organization. We envision a community of opportunity where everyone has hope and can reach their full potential. Our mission is to solve our community’s toughest challenges by connecting people, resources and ideas. United Way’s long tradition of addressing the human service needs in Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and Northern St. Johns counties is made possible through the commitment of thousands of volunteers, contributors and community partners. unitedwaynefl.org The Network for Southern Economic Mobility is a select group of Southern communities committed to increasing upward mobility for youth and young adults who are furthest from economic opportunity. Current membership includes Athens, GA, Chattanooga, TN, Greenville, SC, Jacksonville, FL, Little Rock, AR, Savannah, GA, and Spartanburg, SC. These communities are building cross-sector leadership teams and a regional peer-learning network to build an infrastructure of opportunity that aligns strategic investments and enables youth and young adults to achieve economic security. OVERVIEW STANTON COLLEGE founded as an elementary 1890 school as part of the Population: 17,000 SPAIN sold Florida Freedman’s Bureau. It Territory to US in 1821. was the second school for Jacksonville named to African American children in JACKSONVILLE honor Andrew Jackson. 1866 the state of Florida. 1869 Growing and Evolving 1800-1960 EDWARD WATERS JOHN ROLLINS founded (then: COLLEGE purchases the Kingsley Brown Theological Institute) 1821 1868 Plantation. Finding with goal to educate freed agriculture less former slaves. lucrative than expected, Rollins transitioned the island into a tourist resort and turning the slave quarters into tourist attractions. Jacksonville GREAT FIRE OF 1901 destroyed 146 blocks NAACP’S and 2,400 buildings, leaving Jacksonville chapter ~10,000 residents homeless. 1914 founded. 1934 MAJOR INVESTMENT JACKSONVILLE ($1 million bond) approved UNIVERSITY founded. 1901 to fund major expansion 1917 of Jacksonville public schools and replace wooden schools with brick buildings BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The decision stated that the segregation of schools MATHEWS BRIDGE was was unconstitutional and constructed, connecting the overturned the “separate but Arlington neighborhood with equal” doctrine established downtown Jacksonville. 1954-68 by Plessy v. Ferguson. 1955 CIVIL RIGHTS ERA. The effectiveness of this FLORIDA LEGISLATION movement was due, in part, to the economic creates the Jacksonville 1953 pressure put on public services and places 1954 Expressway Authority (later (e.g., bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, hotels, Jacksonville Transportation movie, theatres, discriminatory hiring practices Authority). 1890 Population: 17,000 DUVAL COUNTY is first county in FL to offer major public school transit 1900 “LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING” was publicly performed first as a poem as part 1898 of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School. Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to introduce its honored guest, Booker T. Washington. It was declared “The Negro 1890 National Anthem.” Population: 143,000 U.S. NAVY expands, fostering huge population and economic growth. Naval Air Station Jacksonville was officially commissioned. 1950s JACKSONVILLE still suffers from the negative effects of rapid suburban sprawl after WWII. 1940-42 The development of suburbs leads to a wave of middle class migration out of city limits, leaving Jacksonville with a much poorer population before. The ‘ritzy’ SUGAR HILL neighborhood, Much of the city’s tax base dissipates, leading to home to Jacksonville’s most prominent problems with funding education, sanitation, and African Americans, was demolished traffic control within the city limits. Residents in for the construction of I-95, which cut unincorporated suburbs have difficulty obtaining through the heart of the neighborhood. municipal services. Between I-95, the expansion of Shands Medical Center, and urban renewal, more than 75% of families were relocated outside of the neighborhood. 1960 DUVAL COUNTY ranked last among Florida’s 67 counties for per- 1960s pupil funding. It ranked last among the twenty largest public school districts in the nation. OVERVIEW SIX YEARS after the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision, The Community 1960 Foundation of Northeast Population: Florida found that 89 201,000 Caucasian and 24 African- American schools were totally segregated by students, teachers and administrators. 1960 JACKSONVILLE Growing and Evolving 1960-2011 On AX HANDLE SATURDAY, young 1960 African American’s protesting segregated lunch counters beaten in Hemming park. Jacksonville authorities did not intervene. JACKSONVILLE International Airport built. 1971 THREE DAYS of riots erupt after a police offer shot and 1968 killed an unarmed fifteen- year-old African American boy named Donnie Ray Hall. “TOUCHDOWN JACKSONVILLE!” formed to bring NFL team to Jacksonville. 1993 The RIVER