Dear Friend:
As our serious work of helping others continues, we also intend to have some fun this summer. Let me introduce "LISC Night at the Movies," the first edition of what we hope will be an continuing series.
Set for Thursday, July 26, 7 pm at our partner
Media Arts Center
, our first feature is "Do the Right Thing," a 1989
drama/comedy that tells the story of Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension. The Media Arts Center
, a LISC partner, is located at 2921 El Cajon Boulevard.
Directed by and starring Spike Lee along with Danny Aiello,
the film is ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 100 best domestic movies of all time. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Aiello).
Here's the best part: Admission will be FREE for
all attendees, plus free drinks and popcorn. All we ask if that you show up with friends, family, and colleagues.
We'll gather starting at 6 pm, with showtime at 7 pm. There are only 45 seats to fill, so we're hoping to have a full house.
See you at the movies!
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Ricardo Flores
Executive Director
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LISC San Diego Gala: Coming in October
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LISC San Diego will celebrate 27 years of community development in San Diego at our annual Gala, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 23, at the downtown Central Library.
Our featured speaker will be Rick Allen, a distinguished author and CEO who created AmeriCorps -- the domestic Peace Corps -- while a high-ranking member of President Clinton's executive staff in the early 1990s. LISC administers AmeriCorps here in San Diego and throughout the country.
What's more, Allen is the author of "RFK: His Words for Our Times," an acclaimed best-selling book of Robert F. Kennedy's most memorable speeches. The book's recent publishing marked the passage of 50 years since RKF's assassination in 1968. In early June,
Allen joined with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, one of Kennedy's 11 children, in making the network rounds.
By added coincidence, it was Bobby Kennedy whose early-1960s walking tour of New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant led to the nation's first CDC (Community Development Corp), later to become a forerunner to the creation of LISC.
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A plan to help ease San Diego’s homelessness crisis
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Taking into account the high cost of living in San Diego and related factors, consider this shocking statistic from the Center for Policy Initiatives: One-third of all San Diego County residents -- or more than 970,000 – live beneath the poverty level.
Yes, it’s true.
In recent years, this economic crisis has manifested itself in our growing homeless population, a total of about 9,000 individuals, of which about 5,000 are living on the streets.
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Want to join our LISC San Diego team?
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LISC San Diego seeks a Lending Program Officer to advance its community development lending program.
This person will be responsible for lending business development and loan originations that support LISC’s strategic priorities and a comprehensive approach to neighborhood revitalization.
Primary responsibilities will include identifying project opportunities; providing technical assistance to local borrowers; initial vetting of projects and structuring financing needs; and developing key relationships and partnerships with public and private leaders in local markets.
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LEAD San Diego: A plan to engage potential donors
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We want to thank LEAD San Diego, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, and our Leadership Action Team (LAT) for assisting us with a plan to market our $50 million housing affordability fund.
The LAT developed a plan to assist us as we engage potential donors to meet our initial $10 million fundraising goal.
The LEAD team created strategies for marketing and messaging to
increase overall awareness of the important work LISC is doing to benefit affordable housing in San Diego.
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Leadership Action Team Participants: Anthony Nguyen (Office of Congressman Scott Peters), Melanie Cohn (Blocom); Cameron Clarke (US Bank). Oscar Urteaga (Madaffer Enterprises), Chad Matkowski (Joe & Mary Mottino YMCA), Pasha Johnson (Paficic Southwest Realty Services), Evone Zander (Eastridge Workforce Solutions), Sarah Burns (San Diego Workforce Partnership), Keely Halsey (Deputy City Attorney, City of San Diego), Scott Ingold (Higgs Fletcher & Mack)
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Welcome to our LAC, Hope!
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We're pleased to welcome Hope Mago as the newest member of LISC San Diego's Local Advisory Committee (LAC).
Hope joined the San Diego-based investment firm of HCAP Partners in May 2009. In his role, he participates in the origination and analysis of new investment opportunities, investment due diligence, deal underwriting, and investment monitoring.
Prior to that, he spent a year interning at First Mutual Limited, the second-largest life insurance and money manager in his native Zimbabwe.
Hope earned an International MBA from the University of San Diego and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and banking from the University of Zimbabwe.
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Demanding solutions: SDHF's annual conference
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We are proud to be the Mobile App sponsor at the San Diego Housing Federation's annual Affordable Housing & Community Development Conference, Oct. 4.
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We are grateful for the continued support we receive from our funders.
This month, we thank CalPrivate Bank for their ongoing generosity and commitment to LISC.
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Maurice Jones: "Helping Americans live longer"
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Why is the U.S. falling behind other wealthy nations when it comes to life expectancy?
LISC CEO Maurice A. Jones tells
The New York Times that under-investment in core human needs like housing, education and jobs is damaging the health outlook for millions of Americans.
He points to innovative partnerships, such as LISC's collaboration with Toledo-based ProMedica, as a way to raise standards of living and improve longevity.
ProMedica is a health care network of specialized hospitals, facilities, researchers, and doctors.
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Message from the President/CEO
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In this podcast, Maurice Jones discusses opportunities to narrow the life-expectancy gap that exist in communities all across the country.
His topics: Engaging with new and existing partners; expanding initiatives designed to address social-determinants of health; and aspiring to expand LISC’s focus on health overall.
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Become an AmeriCorps host site
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LISC San Diego invites our community non-profit partners to submit an application to host an AmeriCorps member for our next program year which will begin on October 1, 2018.
Members are funded through our national LISC AmeriCorps program via an application to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
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A Few Minutes with...
Getting to know the people of LISC
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David Estrella
Director of Housing and Community Development Services
Health and Human Services Agency
County of San Diego
While pursuing his Mexican-American Studies degree at San Diego State, where he became the first member of his family to graduate from college, David Estrella decided his life’s work would be helping others who were less fortunate.
Since then, he’s carried that generous spirit to his new role (as of January) as director of the County’s Housing and Community Development Services.
A few facts: He’s in charge of 100 staff members, with nearly 11,000 “Housing Choice” vouchers (Section 8) participants county-wide residing in 1,000 permanent affordable housing units. His annual department budget approaches $136 million.
Formerly the county’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Estrella has been with the government agency in various roles since 2002. Prior to that, he served in staff positions with San Diego’s Fair Housing Council and the Legal Aid Society.
Looking back, he proudly points to his 1995-96 stint with AmeriCorps as a “key moment” in his career path, which soon led to his earning a law degree at California Western School of Law.
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