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REGIONAL OPPORTUNITYRegional/Neighborhood Equity ImpactsOver the 38-year development of LeadershipCouncil, the funding community has seen a numberof impacts affecting the region. The Woods Fund ofChicago indicates that the analytic metric tool,“Community of Opportunity” Index, can betterequip the field ofactivists working inFor Ricardo Millett, president the city andof the Woods Fund of suburbs. With theChicago, the “Community of knowledge providedOpportunity” Index is an by the Index, theinnovative use of information Leadership Councilcan become a morefor public housing and policyaggressive advocateadvocates because it is aand build on itsquantitative measurement community. Thisof the cost to low-income could enable thepeople seeking affordable community to feelhousing and education confident enough toopportunities.address its ownwelfare issues.According toMillett, the Leadership Council believes that thecommunity, not policy professionals, knows what’sbest for its area.The Leadership Council is a consistent advocate andkey figure that partners with regional planninggroups, councils of governments, and others toencourage affirmative support for policies that willexpand fair and affordable housing in the region.These groups have in turn adopted diversity andinclusion in specific frameworks for regional andcommunity planning. The MacArthur Foundation’sWhite hopes that “the entire region becomes lesssegregated, that policies decrease segregation andincrease affordable housing. Already the LeadershipCouncil has been successful in helping minorityfamilies relocate to low-poverty areas through itsdirect service programs. Its continued advocacysupports those efforts.”At the state level, the Leadership Council initiated acollaborative effort with the organization, Businessand Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI),in order to convene regional groups to develop acoordinated state housing policy agenda. Known asthe Illinois Housing Roundtable, the effort has madea real impact on state housing policy through publiceducation, outreach, and organizing. It provided anexcellent opportunity for groups to discuss effectiveprograms and future initiatives around statewidehousing policy. As a result, various organizationsstrengthened relationships, built stronger coalitions,and began prioritizing opportunities that led to somevery successful outcomes.By 2003, positive changes were seen in the area ofhousing policy in Illinois. The Builders Planning andAppeal Act requires 49 communities in the Chicagoregion to create individual plans for increasing theirsupply of affordable housing by 2009. Other lawsinclude a tax incentive to expand support for housingchoice vouchers in high-growth areas and a lawagainst predatory lending.Nationally, the Leadership Council is working withgroups like Fund for an Open Society to enhancesupport for race equity, including co-conveningnational conferences in 2002 and 2004 with agendasfocusing on strategies to build and maintaincommunity diversity. In addition, Pennick of theField Foundation cites an increased visibility ofhousing discrimination cases as a result of theLeadership Council’s work.ResultsToday, the Leadership Council has made significantprogress in overcoming segregation anddiscrimination. For example, in 2004, the LeadershipCouncil’s three centers: handled 2,944 inquiriescovering a range of fair housing needs; helped morethan 92 families locate apartments through itsGautreaux II program in areas that are low in povertyand high in economic opportunities in the city andsuburbs; filed 52 legal actions, including 29 familialstatus complaints stemming from work withGautreaux II families and 15 complaints against theVillage of Franklin Park over discriminatory codeenforcement practices; trained 120 low- andmoderate-income residents in 16 Chicago areacommunities and Rockford, Ill., to advocate for fairhousing and improved human relations at the locallevel through its Fair Housing Advocate TrainingProgram; and provided technical assistance to over30 municipalities in the Chicago region through itsCommunity Relations Program. 63Overall, the Leadership Council demonstrates a trackrecord that makes it a credible resource with a63The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. “FY2004 Draft Report.”117Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
consistent body of work. The Council’s education,legal action, and policy approaches show asophisticated strategy, as its constituents responddifferently. Notes the Field Foundation’s Pennick,“Some will only listen to lawsuits.” In the end, theLeadership Council’s programs are a positive forcetowards race equity in fair housing and improvedopportunity to jobs, education, and health care.Lessons LearnedRace equity is a subtly complex issue, particularly asthe nature of segregation and discrimination evolves.In 1999, theLeadership Council“It helps to be smarter bydoing work a different way.”— Dawn Stockmoformed theImmigrants’ FairHousingRoundtable, acoalition oforganizationsfocused on Latino and other ethnic minority groupfair housing needs. In 2001, the Leadership Councildeveloped a community-based training program thathas successfully trained more than 200 residents asfair housing advocates, with emphasis on Latinoimmigrants in the Chicago suburbs that wereotherwise disconnected from specific advocacyresources. These efforts address the self-segregationand isolation of growing Latino communities in theChicago region. With the growing Latinocommunity presence, it is easy to lose sight of thecontinued disparities faced by other minority groups.The challenge facing the Leadership Council is torefine its methods to meet the challenges of today’srace equity struggle within the context of changingfunding priorities.There has been a “shift nationwide,” according toWhite from the MacArthur Foundation. Heexplains, “We lost the war on poverty but we stillneed to hear that race matters even though theaudience is less aroused by race talk.” He believesfoundations should be prepared to support theLeadership Council in its ongoing endeavors bymaking larger investments over a long period of time,not just annually. Yet with fewer grants available anda general trend to retreat from fair housingenforcement, the Leadership Council will need tokeep the civil rights struggle interesting by setting anew strategy. Fannie Mae Foundation’s Stockmosimplifies the concern by adding, “It helps to besmarter by doing work a different way.”Contact PeoplePam Daniels-HalisiVice President, CommunityDevelopment LendingLaSalle Bank(former board member,Leadership Council)pam.daniels-halisi@abnamro.com(312) 904-5360Ricardo A. Millett, Ph.D.PresidentWoods Fund of Chicagoricardo@woodsfund.org(312) 782-2698 ext. 104Aurie A. PennickExecutive DirectorThe Field Foundation of Illinois(former President & CEO,Leadership Council)apennick@fieldfoundation.org(312) 831-0910Dawn StockmoSenior Director, Midwest RegionFannie Mae Foundationdstockmo@fanniemaefoundation.org(312) 368-6270Brian WhiteDirector, DevelopmentLeadership Council forMetropolitan Open Communitiesbwhite@lcmoc.org(312) 341-5678 ext. 247Spruiell WhiteSenior Program OfficerThe John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundationswhite@macfound.org(312) 917-3671REGIONAL OPPORTUNITYPart III: Section 3: Connecting to Regional Opportunity 118
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Signs of Promise:Stories of Philant
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Funders’ Network for Smart Growth
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(II. B.)(II. C.)Turning Neighborhoo
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PART I:IntroductionThe Purpose of t
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social justice issues as they relat
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Annie E. Casey FoundationBaltimore,
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neighborhoods into healthy ones—g
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Section 1:Promoting Equitable Publi
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I. A. BUILDING POWER AND GIVINGVOIC
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policy advocates. In 2002, Milwauke
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in Los Angeles, Ford’s Anthony no
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In the late 1990s, the city of Albu
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Section 2:Making All Neighborhoods
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