Chief Executive Officer
The Historic Avenue Foundation
Mobile, Alabama, United States
The Historic Avenue Foundation is a local nonprofit organization committed to closing the opportunity and achievement gaps in The Avenue Community by focusing on holistic community revitalization. The “Avenue,” historically referred to as Davis Avenue, is located in downtown Mobile. It includes parts of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Campground, and Bottom communities. We are making investments in mixed-income housing, cradle-to-college education, and community health and wellness. Our approach is inspired by the Purpose Built Communities model, which has been promoted as a proven method to break the cycle of generational poverty, and is a replicable strategy by both the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank, in addition to many others. We are committed to continuing these collaborative efforts under the guidance of our Community Advisory Council, which focuses solely on the mission of providing the initiative with the capacity needed to ensure the partner organizations are working together in a meaningful, focused, and coordinated way to more efficiently realize the target outcomes.