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“Spiritual, social, and scholastic vitality will drive economic viability.”
James D. Gailliard
• Redeveloping, revitalizing, and stabilizing a region must be intentional.
• Great movements are driven by a belief in personal responsibility.
• Division and ignorance are far more expensive than unity and education.
• Ignoring low-wealth portions of a city or region in essence surrenders and handicaps the entire city to blight, devastation, and violence.
• Our residents who have been the most successful and those who have experienced the worst failure are both products of the same community.
• We can never be great unless we begin to be good.
• Strength and sustainability of a city is found in partnerships.
• Outcomes are a product of Inputs. Changing Inputs changes Outcomes.
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AssumPTIons
• Human, economic, and community development must occur concurrently
• People are ready for catalytic change
• Change is possible
• Public-Private partnerships and collaboration is essential
• Private funding must be made available
• Cultural and racial division must be addressed
• Growth must be stimulated
• Education and training must be a priority • Accountability must be community wide • Crisis intervention is necessary
• There is a concentration of social and economic ills in inner city neighborhoods
Logic Model