Dear Friends,

It’s now more important than ever for cities, towns, and

organizations to work together through successful and

sustainable partnerships. Through our collaborative

efforts, the North Shore CDC is able to provide a strong

and effective voice for the North Shore while leveraging

important resources for communities in our region.

This fall, our collaborative efforts have proven impactful in the 2012 elections,

passing the Community Preservation Act in both Beverly and Salem and

engaging Salem's Point Neighborhood in a non-partisan voter-turnout drive that

led to the highest turnout ever. Ultimately, partnerships with our legislators, city

officials, local universities, and neighborhood groups have enhanced our ability

to advocate for residents in the North Shore and we thank who have supported

our mission through their involvement.

Sincerely,

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Fall 2012 Newsletter

The North Shore

Community

Development

Coalition provides

quality affordable

homes and fosters

economic

empowerment and

community

development in the

north shore.

In this issue:

Salem Point

Visioning

Project

Engages

Neighborhood

6th Annual

Survey impacts

the Gloucester

Crossing

Neighborhood

Partnership

Engages Voter

Initiatives

North Shore

CDC Staff

Achievements

& Farwell's

In the 2012 elections, the Community Preservation Act (CPA) ballot question

passed with over 1,500 votes in Salem and close to 900 votes Beverly. The

Community Preservation Act (CPA), establishes a dedicated funding source to

acquire and preserve open space, parks and conservation land; protect

public drinking water supplies; protect scenic areas; protect farm land and

forests from future development; restore and preserve historic properties

and help meet local families' housing needs. By agreeing to invest on

average $30 per household per year property owners trigger a state match of

the collected funds. In Beverly the CPA would raise about $750,000 per year

and in Salem it would raise up to $600,000 per year. With the adoption of

the CPA, the cities now have the funds to support many essential, popular

and visible projects like the carriage house at Lynch Park in Beverly and

renovations on Salem’s historic City Hall.

Community Preservation Act Passes in Beverly & Salem

Mickey Northcutt, Executive Director

CPA funds support affordable housing, historic

preservations, and open space in our cities.

Building Homes

Staff Farewell In November, NSCDC staff said good-

bye to project manager Nina Cohen,

who started working in 2003 at Salem

Harbor CDC on the agency's lease-

purchase program. Nina oversaw the

Whipple Annex renovation in Ipswich

and the construction of Palmer Cove at

the former Keefe's Restaurant in Sa-

lem. After joining the North Shore

CDC, Nina managed both Phases of

the Holcroft Park Homes project in

Beverly. Her hard work and cheerful

attitude will be missed at NSCDC.

Fall 2012 Page 2

This fall, the North Shore Community Development Coalition

was focused on bringing together the strengths of residents,

community organizations, and key stakeholders to revitalize

civic engagement in the Salem Point Neighborhood through a

voter registration, education, and Get Out the Vote campaign.

The North Shore CDC would like to thank our partnering or-

ganizations, Salem State University (SSU) and the Point

Neighborhood Association (PNA), who worked with us to en-

gage residents in the 2012 elections.

Our grassroots, civic-engagement efforts involved door knock-

ing, neighborhood-wide flyer distribution about election day,

hosting a non-partisan voter education night, phone banking,

and poll monitoring. Working with the PNA and SSU allowed

students and community volunteers to collaborate in a ser-

vice learning curriculum around voter engagement in the

Point neighborhood, specifically through the lens of public

policy and sociology. Other organizations, including Highrock

Church, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, and Neigh-

bor to Neighbor volunteered with the partnership to provide

residents without transportation with rides to the polls and

data collection services. Their volunteer services were key to

our partnerships’ success.

Over the past few elections, voter turn-out in the neighbor-

hood had declined dramatically. Together the North Shore

CDC, SSU, and the PNA registered over 100 new voters from

the neighborhood and assisted in over 750 residents of the

Salem Point Neighborhood casting votes in the 2012 Elec-

tions. The success of this partnership showcases the value of

CDC’s collaboration with the community we serve - both

young leaders in academic institutions and residents en-

gaged in their community.

Leonette Strout, President

Keller Williams

Salem

Kate Newhall, Vice-President

City of Beverly

Beverly

Judith Zolla, Treasurer

Greater Salem Employees Federal

Credit Union

Revere

Linda Anderson-Mercier, Clerk

River House, Inc.

Beverly

David Jacobson

Salem State University

Salem

Nathan Tiller

Beverly

Diana Kerry

North Shore Community College

Newburyport

Denise Deschamps

Beverly

Steve Britton

Beverly Cooperative Bank

Beverly

Alex Mitchell-Munevar

Greater Boston Legal Services

Salem

Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

Salem State University

Salem

Jennifer Raitt

Metropolitan Area

Planning Council

Beverly

Jason Silva

City of Salem

Beverly-Salem

Lesli Woodruff

Epsilon

Beverly

Lucy Corchado

Point Neighborhood Association

Salem

Adria Leach

Salem State University

Salem

Jon Frey

The Davis Companies

Marblehead

Rev. Alan Froggatt

Second Congregational Church

Beverly

Doug Lanois

Tremont Capital

Hamilton

Rosario Ubiera-Minaya

Salem Education Foundation

Salem

Laura Sanchez

Point Neighborhood Association

Salem

Bill Luster

Salem

Board of Directors

Partnership Expands Voter Initiatives in the Salem Point Neighborhood

The Salem Point Visioning Project is a

collaboration with the City of Salem and

the Metropolitan Area Planning Coun-

cil (MAPC) that has been working since

August to empower residents to create

their own community vision and to mo-

bilize resources to ensure that the Point

develops sustainably in its housing, en-

vironmental resources, and economy.

Our Community Development Depart-

ment has already made great strides in

neighborhood engagement, specifically

through with the following groups:

Youth Group: Through a community

mapping project, the North Shore

CDC's Youth Jobs Program

has highlighted the assets in

the Point neighborhood using photo

journalism. The youth participants have

also conducted interviews with different

stakeholders of Salem to shape the

upcoming web-based community PlanIt

social media platform.

Focus Groups: The North Shore CDC is

in the process of hosting a series of

focus groups with a wide cross-section

of neighborhood residents and stake-

holders who serve the community to

garner insight and input into the vision-

ing plan. These "community conversa-

tions" group together participants of

similar interests and background to dis-

cuss their neighborhood vision along

topics of housing, infrastructure, safety,

open space, youth, and reputation. We

will be organizing more than 25 group

conversations this winter. So far we

have hosted three focus groups and are

beginning to collect information and

themes in these conversations that will

later shape the basis of the public vi-

sioning meetings and social media plat-

form, PlanIt.

PlanIt Game: The project partners have

been working with Emerson Engage-

ment Lab to build the framework for the

Community PlanIt game, a social media

platform similar to that of a Sims Life

that allows players to take virtual action

in their neighborhood and connect with

each other. The specific challenges,

causes, and story scripts are being de-

veloped & the video components of the

game will be filmed in early December

in part with our youth jobs program.

Salem Point Visioning Project Engages Neighborhood

Fall 2012

Strengthening Communities

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Staff Achievements

Jason C. Pina,

Director of Property and Asset

Management of the North

Shore Community Develop-

ment Coalition, was awarded

the New England Affordable

Housing Management Associa-

tion’s Professional of the Year.

Mickey Northcutt,

Executive Director of North

Shore CDC, received the 2012

National Young Leader Award

from Affordable Housing Fi-

nance for his dedication to af-

fordable housing.

Jackie Giordano,

Director of External Affairs, re-

ceived the 2012 Rising Star

Award from the Massachusetts

Association of Community De-

velopment Corporations, recog-

nizing her as an emerging lead-

er in the community develop-

ment field.

Impacting the Gloucester Crossing Neighborhood

Our community

development de-

partment contin-

ued to measure its

impact in the

Gloucester Cross-

ing Neighborhood

by completing our

6th annual neigh-

borhood survey.

This year we have partnered with a research methods class at Endicott College to

administer the survey to the Gloucester Crossing community in Beverly. The survey

relies on grassroots community engagement practices with staff and volunteers

going door-to door to residents to help paint a picture of the neighborhood and iden-

tify its recent improvements and continued needs. Currently, 75 surveys have been

completed and data analysis will be available in early 2013. Analysis of the surveys

will guide our Community Engagement work over the next year.

Jason Pina and Julie Kelliher, ED at

NEAHMA Award Dinner

Join the North Shore CDC

and River House’s Icy Tradition

The Polar Plunge

Super Bowl Sunday Sunday, February 3rd at Noon

Beverly & Salem Woodbury Beach Dead Horse Beach

at Lynch Park at the Willows