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Apply for a Student or Young Professional Conference Scholarship
OCDCA is pleased to announce a limited number of full registration scholarships for students and young professionals (under thirty) for the 32nd annual conference in Athens on October 13-14.
Apply for a scholarship here. The deadline is Thursday, September 1.
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Register Now: OCDCA 2016 Annual Conference
Ohio CDC Association's 32nd Annual Conference in Athens
Passion for Progress: Redefining Community Development
October 13-14, 2016
Ohio University Inn & Conference Center
Follow the excitement on Twitter with
#cdcohio16
.
2016 Ohio CDC Association Annual Conference Made Possible By:
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Ohio Microbusiness Development Program RFP Available
OCDCA welcomes current, good standing members to apply for the Ohio Microbusiness Development Program.The purpose of the
Ohio Microbusiness Development Program is to provide funding for community development corporations (CDCs) to further develop a local delivery system that encourages microbusiness development, provides low- and moderate-income households with access to capital for business development and self-employment, and creates and retains long-term jobs in the private sector. Deadline is 4:00 pm on September 30, 2016.
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Location |
Registration |
Ohio Microbusiness Development Program Application TA
September 9, 2016
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Webinar |
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Who is IFF?
IFF is a mission driven lender, real estate consultant, and developer that helps communities thrive by creating opportunities for low-income populations and individuals with disabilities. Join Tara Campbell of IFF as she provides an overview of IFF's lending products.
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Location |
Registration |
Who is IFF?
September 6, 2016
10:00 - 11:00 AM |
Webinar |
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Nutz & Boltz of IDAs
Who Should Attend?
- Organizations considering or developing an IDA Program
- Organizations that have an IDA program but have new hires
- New IDA subsites
Agenda:
- IDAs as a Strategy for Asset Building: Why and How do IDAs Work
- The Building Blocks of Program Design
- Assessing your Community's Needs: Defining your Target Population
- Funding Resources and Opportunities Explained
- IDA Program Management
- Integration of IDAs into Other Agency Programs
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Location |
Registration |
Nutz & Boltz of IDAs
September 14, 2016
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Chase Building
100 E. Broad Street
6th Floor Board Room
Columbus, OH 43215 |
Register Here! |
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Making the Real Estate Deal in the Neighborhood
The goal of the session is to provide participants with a basic framework that enables a CDC to play a role in development. Using a few representative case studies, the course will walk through the development components, identifying key information to obtain and questions to ask. The course would be taught from the perspective of a CDC, while also trying to "get into the heads" of the project stakeholders.
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Location |
Registration |
Making the Real Estate Deal in the Neighborhood
September 15, 2016
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM |
Chase Building
100 E. Broad Street
6th Floor Board Room
Columbus, OH 43215 |
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This training is sponsored by:
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Price Hill Will Homesteading Program
Cincinnati member,
Price Hill Will now has a homesteading program that helps working families on their path to homeownership as reported at
Soapbox Media. Prior to establishing the program - which is currently in its pilot phase - Price Hill Will
had rehabbed 61 homes through its long-standing
Buy-Improve-Sell program. The homesteading program will be presented at the October 13-14 annual conference in Athens in the Reimagining Affordable Home Ownership workshop.
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Share Your Stories
We love hearing about the awesome work you do throughout Ohio. If your organization is mentioned in the news, please share it with us. We love photos too! If you send it to Lisa Much at
lmuch@ohiocdc.org
, we can put it on our blog and in this newsletter.
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Affordable Housing for Low Income Residents in Columbus
The Columbus economy continues to grow, and with it many people are moving closer to the Downtown area. As a result there's been a lot of replacement of affordable housing for low-income families with newer, more expensive properties.
Hear more about this on an All Sides with Ann Fisher episode, featuring Bill Faith from COHHIO, Sean Thomas from OHFA, and other friends of OCDCA.
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AmeriCorps VISTA Spotlight
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OCDCA Welcomes its New AmeriCorps VISTA Leader, Alexis!
Alexis George, AmeriCorps VISTA Leader, helps increase communication among OCDCA VISTA Members. In addition to increasing communication, she promotes the success and accomplishment of the OCDCA VISTA Projects while assisting VISTA Supervisors for more effective outcomes. Prior to serving with OCDCA, Alexis was a VISTA at Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star in Irving, Texas. She studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University and currently studies Sociology and Computer Science at Ohio Dominican University. We're excited for her to join our team!
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Nonprofit Voter Engagement Training
Why should nonprofits be engaged? Dos/don'ts for nonprofits. How to develop a voter engagement plan for your organization, national voter registration day and the latest on Ohio voting laws. Join OANO on September 7th for this important free webinar led by Erika Anthony of Cleveland Neighborhood Progress.
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2016 Ohio Rural Housing Conference
Join the Council for Rural Housing & Development of Ohio and USDA Rural Development on September 12-14 in Dublin, Ohio for the 2016 Rural Housing Conference. More details here.
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Reclaiming Vacant Properties (RVP) Conference
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2016 Ohio Conference on Service and Volunteerism
Each year, The Ohio Conference on Service and Volunteerism brings together Ohio's top volunteer managers and national service representatives for a day of learning and networking. This year the conference is October 25. Learn more here.
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Save the Date: Life. Liberty. Home.
Save the Date for the 2016 Ohio Housing Conference, November 8 - 10, 2016. Hosted by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency and Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, the event will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center with hotel accommodations provided by Hyatt Regency. Registration opens in September. Sponsorship information may be obtained
here.
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What is the Affordable Housing Investment Fund?
Ten thousand people turn 65 each day, but quality affordable senior housing is not being built fast enough to address the senior population explosion. At the same time, thousands of affordable housing units are lost annually to market rate conversions. Market rental rates continue to increase at unprecedented levels.
National Church Residences
is committed to preserving the housing stock that already exists - both in what they currently own, and in properties whose owners are looking to sell.
"The resources needed to create new affordable senior housing continue to shrink. The traditional source for funding - the HUD 202 program - was recently zeroed out in the federal budget. Preserving the affordable senior communities that already exist is so important," said Michelle Norris, president of the National Church Residences investment corporation.
With assistance from National Equity Fund, National Church Residences has created the Affordable Housing Investment Fund. This fund provides $50 million of quick strike capital to acquire and preserve affordable senior housing.
Built upon the entrepreneurial vision of then-CEO Tom Slemmer and managed through the National Church Residences Investment Corporation, the Affordable Housing Investment Fund was launched in November of 2015. Over the next 3 to 5 years, National Church Residences anticipates preserving 20 or more affordable senior housing properties across the country - encompassing more than 2,000 housing units.
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Healthy Food for Ohio Funds
Finance Fund Capital Corporation developed Healthy Food for Ohio (HFFO) to increase access to affordable, fresh food in underserved areas, improve the diets and health of Ohio residents, and spur economic development and revitalization. Grants and loans are available to fund costs associated with land acquisition, predevelopment, construction, equipment, infrastructure, and related expenses for new and existing facilities. Eligible applicants include grocery chains, individual grocery stores, neighborhood food stores, co-ops, and nontraditional food projects such as farmers markets and food hubs. Projects must operate in limited supermarket access areas in Ohio. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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Small Grants for Make a Difference Day
ServeOhio, in conjunction with its corporate Stewards of Service, Honda of America and AEP Ohio, announces the availability of grants to support community service projects organized for Make A Difference Day on October 22, 2016. Grant awards will be in the range of $500 to $1,000. Depending on amounts requested, an estimated five to ten grants will be awarded. Deadline is September 6.
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Abandoned Gas Station Cleanup Grant
Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA), in partnership with Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR), announced a resource to help clean up abandoned gas and service stations throughout Ohio. The Abandoned Gas Station Cleanup Grant will provide funding to assess and clean up BUSTR Class C sites (underground storage tanks with documented petroleum releases). Local government entities who own the eligible property or who have an agreement with the landowner such as non-profits may apply. Eligible activities include up to $100,000 for assessment and up to $500,000 for cleanup. Priority will be given to vacant gas or service station projects where cleanup provides the greatest environmental, community and economic impact.
Applications due September 9.
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National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grants for Creative Placemaking
The National Endowment for the Arts has published guidelines and the application for the next funding round of Our Town, the agency's primary creative placemaking grants program. Our Town requires partnerships between arts organizations and government, other nonprofit organizations, and private entities to achieve livability goals for communities, under the program areas of either arts engagement, cultural planning, and design projects or projects that build knowledge about creative placemaking.
Deadline is September 12.
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Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT), Columbus, is seeking an Executive Director.
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OHFA Qualified Allocation Plan
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) released the first draft of its amendments to the 2016-2017 Qualified Allocation Plan on July 13, 2016. The revised planning calendar is as follows:
- Aug. 26: End of Public Comment Period
- Sept. 8: Final Draft and Comment Summary Posted
- Sept.14: Seek Multifamily Committee Approval of Changes
- Sept. 21: Seek Full Board Approval of 2017 QAP
A second draft of the QAP is available on the OHFA website for review here. You may also review a summary of comments OHFA received and their current responses to these suggestions here. Comments can be made to 2017QAPMailbox@ohiohome.org.
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Governor Kasich on Welfare Reform
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A Poor Peoples Movement in a Rustbelt Town
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Make Room and Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding Launch Affordable Housing Awareness Campaign
Make Room and the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) launched a campaign on August 1 to raise awareness of the need for more affordable housing. Through September 1, Make Room and CHCDF are seeking organizations to sign on to the campaign as strategic partners.
Learn more about the campaign and get involved. The CHCDF recently delivered a statement to Members of Congress explaining why a long-term stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution (CR), puts the FY17 affordable housing budget at risk. CHCDF urged lawmakers to enact clean, full-year FY17 spending bills for HUD and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Read the complete CHCDF statement
here.
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Household Wealth Varies Significantly By Race
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and provides federal policy prescriptions to address the racial wealth gap. Housing policies are identified as a key factor in both contributing to and resolving the gap. Growth in the average wealth of white households has outpaced that of African-American and Hispanic households over the last 30 years. Average wealth increased for each group, but by 85% for White households, 69% for Hispanic households, and 27% for African-American households.
The Ever Growing Gap: Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries is available
here and the original data used for
The Ever Growing Gap
here.
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CBO Report Shows Growing Wealth Inequality
A
new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows that the distribution of wealth among American households was more unequal in 2013 than in 1989. While the share of wealth held by households in the top 10 percent of the distribution increased 9 percent over that period, households in the bottom half of the distribution held 2 percent less of the nation's wealth by 2013. The report suggests that
these households in the bottom half of the distribution had a larger decline in wealth after the Great Recession, due in part to underwater home mortgages and to a rise in student borrowing. Most Americans found themselves with less wealth in 2013 than those of a similar age had in 1989, with the only age group doing better than its counterpart from 1989 was older Americans.
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