COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROITANNUAL REPORT 2018

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LETTER

Dear Friends,

2018 was the 20th anniversary for Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD). For twenty years we have worked to effectively serve our members, the organizations that work to make Detroit’s 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.

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 continue to support and advocate for our members working to achieve a recovery that is equitable and benefits all Detroiters.

Thank you for all that you do to make Detroit better. Thank you to our members, funders, and partners for your continued participation, funding and support. We strive to do more and be better.

WHERE DETROIT HAPPENSWHO WE ARE

CDAD is a membership organization for community development and neighborhood improvement groups, enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of its members and detroit residents through advocacy, training, technical assistance, information sharing, education, and facilitating common action.

OUR CORE VALUES

the right of everyone to participate, make decisions and determine the future of their neighborhoods and community.

performing our work in a way that inspires trust, is transparent, and accountable.

for ourselves, colleagues, members, partners and specifically the expertise of Detroit residents.

appreciation and inclusion of different viewpoints, experiences, cultures and backgrounds throughout all facets of our work.

EQUITY

INTERGRITY

RESPECT

DIVERSITY

CDAD programs and activities are guided by these core values:

Sarida Scott Executive Director

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.

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 needs. This award provides a unique combination of leadership development for the executive director and an emerging leader, $200,000 in flexible funding and a network of peer organizations across the U.S.

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

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

WEEK

NEIGHBORHOODBUILDERS

AWARD

2018 MILESTONES

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.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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!

As Detroit neighborhoods have been receiving increased planning and development attention, CDAD has always put a priority on ensuring that our members are appropriately engaged in any process that impacts their neighborhood. To that end, in 2018 CDAD began working as a contracted community engagement sub consultant to the City of Detroit and other government agencies and successfully bid and interviewed on several proposals.

In 2018, CDAD worked with the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department to lead community engagement for the Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood Framework plan. CDAD’s community engagement tea worked closed with City departments, the consultant team, and Jefferson Chalmers residents and community organizations to make sure that neighborhood residents were actively involved in the planning and their voice was heard throughout the process. CDAD advised the

city on its engagement efforts and played a central role in designing and organizing community outreach and feedback activities. Specifically, CDAD led planning, logistics, and facilitation of the following aspects of the Jefferson Chalmers planning process:

• “Residents in Action” stakeholder committee with 20 members meeting nine times to advise and give feedback to the planning process

• Four large “town hall” community meetings with over 125 attendees at each

• More than 25 focus groups and small meetings attended

• Creation of the Jefferson Chalmers Citizens guide with over 2,000 distributed and 500 surveys completed

• Door-to-door outreach and surveying• 8 weeks of public office hours with Planning

Department staff

Caucus Meetings

CDAD’s District Based Caucuses provide a platform for our members and other stakeholders in each City Council District to share information, build relationships and improve partnerships across their district. Our district board representatives play a critical role as a connecting point between members in their district and CDAD and in planning caucus activities.

In 2018, CDAD hosted twelve Caucus meetings, with over 250 attendees across all City Council Districts. The Community Engagement team took a new approach to the Caucus meetings, which included working closely with the CDAD District Board Representatives to plan the details of each meeting. With their thought partnership, all of the meetings had an agenda that was reflective of the interests, needs and relevant events and projects happening in that specific district. As a result, each Caucus meeting had a unique format, with different speakers covering a large range of topics.

Membership Meetings

CDAD hosted six Membership meetings over the course of the year and engaged over 160 attendees. In response to feedback from prior Membership meetings, we introduced a new meeting format. The first half of the meeting included presentations, announcements and updates related to the sector, including presentations from City officials, policy advocates, and local community development initiatives. The second half of each membership meeting consisted of recurring topical table-top discussions for attendees to engage in deep-dive conversations around topics they identified

as important to Community Development. The five topic areas were: Funding/Organizational Sustainability, Inclusion in Community Development Work (Youth/Diversity), Community Development Organization - Grassroots Collaboration, Community Land Trusts, City-CDAD Member Relations.

Lunch and Learn Series

CDAD’s Lunch and Learn series aims to address trending community development topics through collective conversation in a relaxed atmosphere. Each Lunch and Learn was hosted at a different community site. We invited a few practitioners to speak about the selected topic and then opened up the discussion to all attendees. With close to 70 attendees at the three events, the conversations were robust and reflective of many different perspectives on the selected topics. In 2019, we hosted discussions on Community Development and Design, Community Organizing and Urban Agriculture.

Developing Vibrant Communities

CDAD partners with CEDAM to present the annual Developing Vibrant Communities Conference. With over 170 people registered from all over the state of Michigan, the 2018 conference provided a unique opportunity for Community Development practitioners of all different backgrounds to learn and network with one another. The session offerings covered a diverse range of topics including neighborhood-based housing and real estate development, financial empowerment, fair housing policy and advocacy, inclusive engagement capacity building for nonprofits and more.

CDAD Events

Community Engagement Consulting Services

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.

Chadsey Condon Planning

CDAD worked with our member organization Bridging Communities Inc to support the Chadsey Condon neighborhood to develop a shared vision for the future. CDAD staff worked with a committee of residents and other stakeholders to lead over 200 residents in public engagement activities including:

• Four community-wide participatory visioning sessions

• Four tabling exercises at community events • Two youth focus groups • One focus group with a local business

association • Surveying at local events and schools

The community is looking forward to implementing action items from their plan in 2019.

Building Bridges Across Cultural Divides

CDAD staff worked with our partners Welcoming Michigan and Global Detroit to work with residents in the East Davison area on the Detroit/Hamtramck border to build stronger relationships across cultures. The project was guided by a local committee of residents who worked together to plan a storytelling event that featured stories from different cultures, great food, and a live human chess game. The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion hosted a workshop about communication across cultures to overcome conflict for members of the community. Residents who participated continue to meet and develop strategy to build a stronger, more connected community.

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.

POLICY ADVOCACY

CDAD’s Public Policy and Advocacy work is steered by the needs of our members working directly with residents in communities across Detroit. Our Policy Agenda is developed from their direct input. We achieve policy goals through facilitation, organizing, partnerships and information sharing.

In 2018, CDAD continued advocating for housing that’s affordable to low-income Detroiters through research, coalition work and advocating with elected officials and policy makers.

CDAD leads the Affordable Housing Workgroup which includes CDAD members, Detroit LISC, other community development financial institutions, affordable housing experts and the City of Detroit Housing and Revitalization Department. A large number of LIHTC units could be converted to market-rate by 2022. The workgroup partnered with a graduate student from the University of Michigan’s Urban and Regional

Planning Program to develop a report that provides promising practices for addressing challenges faced by LIHTC properties at Year 15.

CDAD is a member of the Detroit Housing Trust Fund Coalition which continued pushing for adequate funding of the Affordable Housing Development and Preservation Fund by hosting a town hall meeting. The meeting was held in collaboration with national partners, Center for Community Change and Detroit City Council President Pro Tempore Mary Sheffield to educate Detroit residents about the fund. There were about 100 residents in attendance.

Affordable Housing

We prioritize our policy goals according to what our members consider to be timelier and more urgent. To address our high-priority goals, we build partnerships and coalitions with stakeholders working on the same issue. In 2018, our high-priority objectives included: Affordable Housing, Community

Benefits Ordinance, and Tax Foreclosure Prevention.To address the goals that are less urgent but still impact communities we partner with other organizations focusing on the issue by showing support and sharing information on other issues of interest including:

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

These financial statements have not been subjected to an audit, review or compilation engagement and no assurance is provided on them.

JAN - DEC 2018SUPPORT

12th Street Community Development Corporation360 Detroit Inc. Abayomi Community Development Corp. Accounting Aid Society African American Bus. MI Opp. Com. Corp. Ana Diaz Andrea Brown Andy Ross Annie Mendoza Bagley Community Council Bank Suey Belle Isle Conservancy Bennett Street Block Club Bike Share Binder Street Block Club BlockClub in the Park Bridging Communities Inc. Brightmoor Alliance Brilliant Detroit BUILD Institute Building Community ValueCanfield Consortium Capital Impact Partners Central Detroit Christian CDC Chadsey-Condon Community Organization Chateaufort Place Cooperative - Lafayette Park CHN Housing Partners Church of the Messiah Housing CorporationCody Rouge Community Action AllianceCollege Core Block Club College Park Community AssocationCommunity & Home Supports Community Housing Network Community Services CDC The Detroit Muslim MissionCooperative CapitalCoalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS) Crane Street Block ClubDeSoto Ellsworth Block Association Detroit Bike Share – MoGoDetroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance Detroit Collaborative Design Center Detroit Development Fund Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Fututre CityDetroit Hispanic Development Corporation

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice Develop Detroit Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit Dream of Detroit Eastside Community NetworkEcoWorksEden Gardens Block Club Eric Dueweke Families Standing TogetherFederal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis Focus: HOPEFrancis Grunow – Paris of the MidwestGary Gray Gateway Community Organization GenesisHOPE CDC Greenview Block ClubGlobal Detroit Good Jobs Now Education Fund Greater Sandhill Neighborhood Association & Oak Grove Block Club Association Hereford Street Block Club Historic Boston-Edison AssociationHope Community Outreach and Development IFF Jacqueline Williams Jefferson East Inc. Joy Community Association Joy-Southfield CDC JP Morgan Chase FoundationKaren BrownKatherine Ralston Lanita Carter Lesley Hairston Let’s Do Something DetroitLGBT Detroit Libby Levy Linda Bowie MACC Development Mack Alive CDC Manistique Block Club 200-300 Block Margaret Dewar Marllborough Essex Culinary Corner & Community Commons Matrix Human Services McKenna Associates Meaghan Markiewicz

2018 Members

Enterprise Community PartnersErb Family FoundationFord Foundation Kresge Foundation Skillman Foundation Bank of America JPMorgan Chase

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Ralph C. Wilson Foundation Knight Foundation Citizens Bank Huntington Bank Comerica Bank

2018 Funders

Foundation Grants: 80%

Bank Grants: 14%

Other Grants: 1%

Program Fees: 3%

Member Dues: 1%

Miscellaneous: >1%

Income

Salaries & Benefits: 50%

Professional Fees: 12%

Contributed Services: >1%

Program Expenses: 30%

Rent: 2%

Meetings & Conferences: 2%Staff Training & Travel: 1%

Office Supplies & Overhead: 2%

Expenses

Salaries & Benefits: $485,216.22Professional Fees: $113,830.89Contributed Services: $4,900.00Program Expenses: $294,874.97Rent: $17,705.30Staff Training & Travel: $10,092.14Meeting & Conferences: $23,170.66Office Supplies & Overhead: $19,292.58

Total Expenditures: $969,082.76

Expenditures by Type

Foundation Grants: $1,191,500.00Bank Grants: $218,500.00Other Grants: $24,654.33Program Fees: $43,255.00Member Dues: $12,230.00Miscellaneous: $5,002.67

Total Income: $1,495,142.00

Income by Type

Delphine Jackson, Bennet Street Block Club, District 1 Eleanore Eveleth, Sinai-Grace Guild CDC, District 2 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 Sam Butler, Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit, CDO/NIO At-Large Ezekiel Harris, MACC Development, Vice Chair, CDO/NIO At-Large Kwaku Osei, Cooperative Capital, Secretary, At-Large Eric Dueweke, University of Michigan, Treasurer, At-Large Virginia Stanard, University of Detroit Mercy Master of Community Development Program, At-Large

Photos, Troy AndersonReport Design, Trista Dymond

Sarida ScottExecutive Director

Madhavi ReddyPlace-Based Initiatives

Manager

Aaron GoodmanCommunity Engagement

Manager

Akua HillCommunity Engagement

Associate

Troy AndersonCommunications

Associate

Kyra ThomasOffice Manager

LaToya MorganPublic Policy Manager

Shirley DavisCommunity Engagement

Associate

Yolanda JacksonCommunity Planning

Associate

LISC Americorps Members

BOARD

CDAD STAFF

Medvis Jackson Michigan Historic Preservation NetworkMichigan Immigrant Rights Center – Welcoming MichiganMidwest Civic Council Nardin Park Improvement Rock National Community Stabilization TrustNational Faith Homebuyers Neighborhood Legal Services Michigan New Hope Community DevelopmentNorth Rosedale Park Civic Association Northend Neighborhood Patrol Northend Neighbors Block Club Nortown CDC Oakland Avenue Artists CoalitionOakland Avenue Urban Farm O’Hair Park Community Association Opportunity Resource Fund Orletta Caldwell Palmer Woods Association Patrick Cooper-McCann People for Palmer ParkPinehurst Block ClubPink Elephant Products and Events L3CPowerhouse Productions Preservation Detroit Princeton Street Block Club Ralph Leach Ramona Douglas Revive Detroit CDC

Richard Smith SER Metro-DetroitShelby HarrisonSinai-Grace Guild CDC Single Family Living Southwest Detroit Business Association Southwest Detroit Community Justice Center Southwest Housing Solutions Spin Inc. Stuart Jacobson Taylor Teasdale TechTown The Boynton Subsector 48217 Core Group The Caldwell Group LLC The Cooperation GroupThe Villages CDCTheodore Buckner U of D Mercy Master Community Development U of M Law School: Community & Economic Development Clinic U SNAP BAC Unity in Our Community TimeBank Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Vanguard CDC Voices for Earth Justice Warrendale Community Organization West Euclid Express Block ClubWest Outer Drive Civic Association Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp.

SUPPORT2018 Members Continued

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