Listen "Episode 36: Our Center’s Second Decade Strategic Pivot"
Episode Synopsis
We are coming up on two years since we launched a period of reflecting, reimagining and recommitting at our center’s tenth anniversary. We are now fully into a major strategic pivot on our quest to promote place-based social transformation. We dedicate this episode to bring our listeners fully up to speed on the next chapter of our mission. To describe the details of our organizational pivot, I am joined by two colleagues who are helping us to bridge from our first decade of work and a third colleague who has recently joined to advance our new focus.Debbie Wilber is our Associate Director at NIMC and a Research Associate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western. Debbie serves both as our COO and as a leader of some of our project work. She’s been with us for five years.Salin Geevarghese is the principal of his consulting firm SGG Insight and has been a constant collaborator with our center since 2016. He has helped lead our Mixed-Income Strategic Alliance work as well as our consultation with the Washington Housing Conservancy in D.C.Laylah Allen joined us two months ago as our first ever Senior Community Builder on staff. She brings experience in community outreach, strategic partnerships, and youth mental health and wellness. She joined us from the Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western.The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities/NP3: Nurturing People.Place.Power.SGG Insight
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