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James A. Johnson Fellows, 2000 FellowsGet to know our 2000 Fellows.
William J. Barrow, Executive Director Under Bill Barrow's leadership since 1984, the H Street Community Development Corporation (HSCDC) has generated commercial and residential development projects valued at more than $64.5 million. These projects include 330,000 square feet of commercial space, providing more than 1,200 jobs and space for more than 50 commercial tenants, 38 units of affordable for-sale housing, and 284 units of low-income rental housing. The organization also has provided technical assistance and loans to more than 1,500 small business owners. Commercial projects have provided access to health care and helped fund other real estate development efforts. In 1995, HSCDC identified 501 H Street, NW, a large, abandoned, boarded-up eyesore, as a relocation site for the organization's corporate headquarters. Today, the now-renovated eastern section of the building serves as a state-of-the-art training facility that offers training opportunities for business owners and residents.
Gloria Guerrero, President and CEO Gloria Guerrero is the president and CEO of the Rural Development & Finance Corporation (RDFC), a nonprofit economic development loan fund whose mission is to meet the credit needs of locally owned small businesses in rural areas. Incorporated in 1981, RDFC assembles capital from public and private investors through its revolving loan fund and relends it to rural businesses and community redevelopment projects. Ms. Guerrero is nationally acknowledged for her accomplished work in very hard-to-serve rural areas of the country and has been instrumental in providing technical and financial assistance to housing organizations serving the colonias and communities of the Texas/Mexico border. For example, her development of the Border Development Finance Initiative (BDFI) facilitated the creation of over 800 single- and multifamily housing units.
Lynette Lee, Executive Director Lynette Lee has served as executive director of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) for 18 years. Over the course of her tenure, the organization has grown from a staff of 2 to a staff of 75. They have developed 650 units of housing and 100,000 square feet of commercial property. Ms. Lee has led a wide range of efforts to promote the betterment of the East Bay community, particularly in the low-income and Asian and Pacific Islander population, through the development of physical, human, and economic assets for individuals and community organizations. In one of her many notable successes, Ms. Lee formed a collaborative of nonprofit partners to promote homeownership by creating Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). As the lead agency, EBALDC helped create a Bay Area-wide IDA program. Today the Bay Area IDA collaborative is seen as a national model, and other organizations have approached EBALDC for advice and guidance as they establish their own IDA programs. Beatriz Stotzer, President/CEO, NEWcapital President of the Board, New Economics for Women, Los Angeles, CA Beatriz Stotzer is currently president and CEO of NEWcapital, a real estate and development firm in Los Angeles. As one of the founders of New Economics for Women (NEW), she has served as president of the board since 1985. Under her leadership, NEW received its first grant of $96,000, which to date has brought an approximated $60 million in investments to the community that NEW serves. She has received national recognition for addressing women's poverty and developing economic housing services for poor single-parent families. NEW's first two housing projects, Casa Loma, an $18 million project with 110 units, and La Posada, a $4.5 million transitional-housing project for single teen mothers providing 60 single-room occupancy units, became models for the nation. La Villa Mariposa is a 115-unit apartment complex for families that provides its residents with a comprehensive system of on-site educational, social, and business programs.
Ray Stranske, Executive Director Ray Stranske is executive director of Hope Communities Inc., in Denver, Colorado, an organization he founded in 1979. Upon finishing graduate school in 1974, Mr. Stranske moved into the low-income, predominantly Hispanic neighborhood where he still lives, spending most of his free time working as a neighborhood volunteer. Mr. Stranske helped neighbors find housing and better jobs. He also taught them to work with city bureaucracies, and he formed the still-functioning neighborhood association called the Organized Baker Residents. In 1980, he and his wife officially incorporated Hope Communities, Inc., one of the first nonprofits to use a syndicated real-estate ownership structure to raise capital for affordable housing. This idea helped promote and pass the Tax Reform Act of 1986, known as the tax credit program. Hope, Inc., is one of the leaders in promoting affordable housing with resident participation in the Denver area. The organization has completed over 600 housing units, using many forms of resident management participation to increase skills and to create a sense of empowerment for thousands of participants.
Mtamanika Youngblood, Executive Director Since 1993, Ms. Youngblood has been executive director of the Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, a leading nonprofit, community-based builder of affordable homes in the central city that is committed to neighborhood revitalization based on historic preservation and economic diversity. Its goal is to re-establish the mixed-income residential community that once thrived around "Sweet Auburn" Avenue, the childhood home of Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Ms. Youngblood's leadership, HDDC has become one of the most prolific and admired producers of affordable, single-family homes in neighborhoods surrounding downtown Atlanta. Through discussion and collaboration with local residents, Ms. Youngblood has helped develop innovative new strategies for community revitalization by combining the mixed-income concept with historic preservation. Among these strategies are a firm policy of non-displacement of current neighborhood residents and a block-by-block pattern of development that emphasizes scale and the sustainability of improvements. 2000 James A. Johnson Community Fellows Selection Committee
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