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Baltimore, Maryland, Us

After a couple of decades in the REO biz & witnessing all the injustice therein, it hit me, an idea to intersect these sectors: urban neighborhood revitalization, employment social enterprise, multi-stakeholder cooperatives, workforce housing, and decentralized finance. What would such an intersection look like? We call it The Impact Real Estate Portfolio (IREP). It works like this: Raise #ImpactInvestment, purchase & renovate the most distressed homes in America's most oppressed neighborhoods, use that renovation work to hire and train folks in those neighborhoods or facing other barriers to employment, rent the now-beautifully renovated homes to these same folks, and then distribute IREP equity to the workers who did that renovation, to the tenants moving in, and to the human beings who have lived, loved and toiled in, and can tell you the rich history that neighborhood. Rising Housing is the first IREP, and thanks to Seed Commons and the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic democracy, Rising just ratified a contract for our ninth home, and our second in Sandtown-Winchester!

StreetWell Housing is catalyzing scalable economic democracy in housing finance through the development of a new investment structure called the Impact Real Estate Portfolio (IREP). The IREP:- - acquires, renovates and rents out significant numbers of distressed assets in targeted marginalized communities; and, - distributes IREP shares to workers, tenants, and other community stakeholders and partners.StreetWell’s IREP vision reimagines two well-established real estate investment strategies: flipping and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Flipping is the practice of renovating a distressed property in order to yield a healthy return on investment in the form of an equity gain; Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are portfolios of income-producing real estate that generate dividends for shareholders. Flipping in downtrodden communities, however, has historically been rife with extractive and predatory practices. Likewise, REITs aren’t known for investing in poor residential neighborhoods, let alone for imagining ways to distribute equity to local stakeholders such as workers and tenants facing barriers to secure employment and housing.StreetWell blends flipping and REITs to create a low-to-moderate risk investment strategy yielding moderate-to-high equity and dividend returns. The IREP deploys low-interest, high impact investment and renovation strategies specifically designed to keep - in community - equity and dividends generated through the renovation and management of highly distressed real estate in historically marginalized neighborhoods. StreetWell’s most compelling innovation is the distribution of IREP equity to local workers renovating IREP properties, to tenants, and to other community stakeholders. IREP also boosts equity distribution for participation in individual, family & community enriching activities such as financial literacy trainings, community association involvement, or just doing a stand-up job keeping a home well maintained.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Appalachian Field Services is a property management & property preservation firm. We place special emphasis on recovery. Often the properties we manage and maintain are "in need of TLC." Often we use these business opportunities to put men and women to work who are rebuilding their own lives. Often we take perfectly serviceable goods left behind at a vacant property, and instead of filling the landfill, AFS places these items on the shelves at our shop, The Appalachian Recovery Room. Appalachian Field Services provides such services as: * full renovations * REO Maintenance and Management * delinquency interviews/occupancy verifications * insurance and property condition inspections, and renovation & repair estimatesWe service the following counties: * MARYLAND: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Prince Georges County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Washington County, Allegany County * PENNSYLVANIA: Frankin, Fulton, Adams, York * WEST VIRGINIA: Morgan County, Berkeley County, Jefferson County * VIRGINIA: Clarke, Loudon, FrederickWe are ethical, competent, thorough, expeditious, experienced, licensed and insured professionals.

San Francisco, California, Us

Man, I've been transformed and catapulted in so many ways as a social entrepreneur. Where to start? Well, how about here: https://youtu.be/gn2OLP3f2go

Boonsboro, Maryland, Us

Annapolis, Maryland, Us

Ladders to Leaders(L2L) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people transition from Alcoholism and Addiction into productive members of society.L2L assists individuals who are either already in or ready to begin their Spiritual-Based recovery from drug and alcohol dependence and addiction. By offering residence and employment Ladders to Leaders lifts the stress of essential living while maintaining a solid environment surrounded by positive members of the recovery community.We believe the ability of our staff and volunteers to relate to the struggles of recovery, as well as the living example of strong recovery they represent, help foster the right environment to facilitate spiritual and emotional growth required to live a life free from active alcoholism and addiction.Mission: House and employ individuals in recovery to help them bridge the gap from short term recovery programs to sustainable long term recovery and to help them become contributing members of society again.Vision: Link short term approaches to recovery to successful long term recovery strategies that include intense immersion in a recovery environment, community/fellowship, hard work, training/mentorship, personal responsibility, volunteerism, spiritual programs and freedom from all forms of ‘crutch drugs’.Our Core ValuesL2L believes:Recovery is the personal responsibility of the addict/alcoholicRecovery is a lifelong endeavorRecovery requires a dramatic change in psycheRecovery is about finding place and purpose in the UniverseRecovery is significantly stronger and more lasting when clients immediately, intensively and indefinitely affiliate themselves with a recovery group or fellowship. Short term approaches to recovery do not work without linking to longer term strategies based upon the principles above

Charm City Rents - Realtors® (Advantage Realty, LLC, Hagerstown, MD)**tenants' agents pre-qualifying and placing tenants in rental propertiesthroughout Central and Western Maryland**residential property management**commercial property management**HOA management

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Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Linguistics

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Black Belt, Social Enterprise

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