Growing Up & Out of Poverty: Why Housing Matters
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Welcome
The NHP Foundation 2020 Symposium Richard F. Burns, President & CEO, NHPF
Welcome to the 4th Annual NHP Foundation Symposium, “Growing Up & Out of Poverty: Why Housing Matters,” examining the intersection between affordable housing, academic success, and opportunities for social mobility. 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us. The impact of the pandemic has reached every corner of our industry. Yet while everything else in our world seems to be changing, the root causes of poverty in this country remain very much the same, only heightened to a vertiginous degree.
This year’s Symposium critically examines two factors which, when combined, create economic and social prosperity: improved access to education and safe, affordable housing. This undertaking became more important as the pandemic and other national woes upended the lives of society’s most vulnerable, leading us to align with Enterprise Community Partners to conduct an in-depth survey of educators in order to determine the key factors young people need to succeed academically, socially and economically. The survey results presented here today will serve as the foundation for “A Conversation,” an in-depth dialog featuring inspiring stories from individuals who themselves have grown up and out of poverty. Our goal is that this conversation will inspire more dialog about how the affordable housing ecosystem can support others. We are grateful to this year’s speakers, including our keynote, Matthew Desmond. This dynamic group will offer attendees meaningful takeaways for how to meet the challenges of a nation in need of housing that people can afford. We are also grateful to our sponsors and attendees. In this most difficult of years, you have chosen to embrace NHPF’s mission of providing pathways that residents can follow up and out of poverty. We hope you will join us as we continue to foster strong relationships essential to the success of our valuable work.
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Affordable Housing Leader Award Presentation Richard F. Burns Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) POSTHUMOUSLY Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings ACCEPTING AWARD Video Dedicated to Representative Elijah Cummings Unconventional Affordable Housing: Yes! In My Back Yard Support Operation Pathways Kenneth D. White EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPERATION PATHWAYS Remarks Mecky Adnani SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ACQUISITIONS Message The Hon. Lori Lightfoot MAYOR CHICAGO, IL Support Operation Pathways Message Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) Message Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Keynote Speaker Matthew Desmond PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Social Lounge Networking Discussion Room Topics:
Emcee: Mansur Abdul Malik VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT, NHPF Statement & Introductions Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. PRESIDENT & CEO, SOME, INC. (SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT) Welcome Richard F. Burns PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NHPF Message Representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA) Congressional Awards Presentation
2020 Trailblazer Awards Senator Todd Young (R-IN) Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Symposium Presentation: Aligning Housing & Education Outcomes Andy Masters STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP MANAGER, KNOWLEDGE, IMPACT & STRATEGY, ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS “A Conversation” Moderator: Andy Masters Speakers: Derek Anderson NBA PRO FOUNDER, STAMINA ACADEMY Mary E. Badillo, MD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ER MEDICINE, MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER Wes Moore CEO, THE ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION Liz Murray INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER & AUTHOR Social Lounge Networking Discussion Room Topics:
Housing, Health & Education Housing, Investment & Finance Housing & Social Justice Housing & Homelessness Support Operation Pathways Concluding Remarks Richard F. Burns
Housing, Health & Education Housing, Investment & Finance
Housing & Social Justice Housing & Homelessness Message The Hon. Sylvester Turner MAYOR HOUSTON, TX
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Award Presentations
Affordable Housing Trailblazer Award Honoree Senator Todd Young (R-IN)
Senator Todd Young represents Hoosiers in the United States Senate. He currently serves on the Senate Committees on Finance; Foreign Relations; Commerce, Science & Transportation; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. A fifth-generation Hoosier, Young grew up watching his parents work hard in order to support the family. His first jobs were delivering
newspapers, mowing lawns, and providing janitorial services at the family business.
Young is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated with honors in 1995 and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 2000, Young was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps as a Captain. While serving in the Marines and working as a business consultant, Young earned an MBA and his law degree. In 2010, he ran for Congress and served three terms representing Indiana’s 9th District. He was elected to the US Senate in 2016. Young married his wife Jenny in 2005 and worked together at a small law firm in Paoli, Indiana started by Jenny’s great-grandfather. Today, they reside in Greenwood, Indiana with their four young children: a son, Tucker, and three daughters, Annalise, Abigail, and Ava.
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Affordable Housing Trailblazer Award Honoree Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Senator Ron Wyden believes the nation’s biggest challenges can only be solved by what he calls “principled bipartisanship,” solutions that allow all parties to reach agreements while staying true to their principles. As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance, following that approach has helped him author more than 150 bipartisan bills on issues including infrastructure, health care and housing. Wyden began his work in public service founding the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers, an advocacy group
for the elderly. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996. Wyden has led efforts to preserve and expand affordable housing and is planning to introduce the Decent, Affordable and Safe Housing (DASH) Act, which would dedicate resources to get a roof over every child’s head.
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Award Presentations
Affordable Housing Trailblazer Award Honoree Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) POSTHUMOUSLY
Elijah E. Cummings, United States Congressman, Maryland’s 7th District, was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where he resided until his death in the fall of 2019.
He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Howard University, serving as Student Government President and graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and then graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law. Congressman Cummings has also received 11 honorary doctoral degrees from Universities throughout the nation.
Congressman Cummings dedicated his life of service to uplifting and empowering the people he was sworn to represent. He began his career of public service in the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served for 14 years and became the first African American in Maryland history to be named Speaker Pro Tem. Since 1996, Congressman Cummings proudly represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Cummings often said that our children are the living messages that we send to a future we will never see. In that vein, he was committed to ensuring that our next generation has access to quality healthcare and education, clean air and water, and a strong economy defined by fiscal responsibility. Congressman Cummings was a consistent advocate for the rights of those facing foreclosure and held regular Foreclosure Prevention Seminars for people at risk of being foreclosed upon. Congressman Cummings served on numerous boards and commissions. He was also the 2014–2015 holder of the Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy Lecture Series at Howard University. Congressman Cummings was an active member of New Psalmist Baptist Church and was married to Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings.
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Presentation
Keynote Speaker
Aligning Housing & Education Outcomes Andy Masters STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP MANAGER, KNOWLEDGE, IMPACT & STRATEGY, ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Matthew Desmond PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Andrew Masters joined Enterprise Community Partners in 2018 as the Strategic Partnerships Manager in the Knowledge, Impact and Strategy team. Prior to Enterprise, Masters led the launch and implementation of a Youth Health and Wellness Strategy out of the Baltimore City Health Department. As the Director of School Age Initiatives at Family League of Baltimore as, he oversaw the organization’s portfolio of investments and initiatives supporting children in kindergarten through eighth grade and their families. He began his career in Baltimore City Public Schools as a school counselor and was later asked to join the district administration team. Masters has a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and a master’s degree in counselor education from the Pennsylvania State University.
MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City draws on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data to transform our understanding of inequity and economic exploitation in America. In addition to the Pulitzer, Evicted won the National Books Critics Circle Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Heartland Prize, and more, and was named one of the Best Books of 2016 by nearly three dozen outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal.
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A Conversation: Speakers
Derek Anderson NBA PRO FOUNDER, STAMINA ACADEMY
Mary E. Badillo, MD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ER MEDICINE, MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
Derek Anderson’s life journey started as an eleven-year-old child sleeping alone in an abandoned apartment with no electricity or hot water for days. He would be left to fend for himself at the age of twelve while no one knew where his parents were. Things continued to strain his young life as he fathered a child at the age of fourteen. At fifteen, he became a single parent and worked two jobs while going to school and playing basketball. Despite not having either of his parents in his life, he went on to graduate with a 3.7 GPA and earned a full scholarship to a major University. Anderson had gone through the worst life imaginable as a young man but he never made excuses for his situation. He now wants to share his life lessons on how to conquer all your dreams of being what you want to be and becoming more then others said you should become. The sacrifices that Anderson displayed as a young man showed great rewards as he became the CEO of his own company and a multi-millionaire at the age of twenty-three. Anderson shares his secrets to winning in life. Learn how you can make your dreams a reality too!
Mary Badillo, MD is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Montefiore Medical Center. She also supervises and teaches emergency medicine. Drawing on her own experience growing up in Bronx public housing, Dr. Badillo serves as a mentor to disadvantaged and low income students, helping them break through social, cultural, and financial barriers. During the pandemic, the CBS TV documentary Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Frontline showcased her compassionate, caring work at Montefiore dealing with Covid-19 in New York City. Dr. Badillo follows in the footsteps of her five older brothers, each with distinguished a career in law, medicine, business, education, and ministry. Completing her internship at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center; Dr. Badillo fulfilled her residency in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center; received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College; and her Bachelors in Science degree from Fordham University.
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Wes Moore CEO, THE ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
Liz Murray INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER & AUTHOR
Wes Moore is the CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation. He is also a bestselling author, a combat veteran, and a social entrepreneur. Moore's first book, The Other Wes Moore, a perennial New York Times bestseller, captured the nation’s attention on the fine line between success and failure in our communities and in ourselves. He is also the author of the bestselling books The Work, Discovering Wes Moore, and This Way Home. Moore's latest book, Five Days, explores the uprisings in Baltimore in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody through a kaleidoscope of perspectives and examines critical questions about the deeper causes of violence and poverty. Moore grew up in Baltimore and the Bronx, where he was raised by a single mom. He graduated Phi Theta Kappa from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He earned an MLitt in International Relations from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Moore then served as a captain and paratrooper with the u.s. Army’s 82nd airborne, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He later served as a White House Fellow to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Formerly homeless, Liz Murray transformed her life of despair into an inspiring journey of determination, hope and hard-won success. The child of drug-addicted parents who routinely ate from dumpsters and sought refuge at all-night subway stations to survive, Liz Murray was homeless at age 15—and fending for her life. Amidst this pain, Murray always imagined her life could be much better than it was. “I started to grasp the value of the lessons learned while living on the streets. I knew after overcoming those daily obstacles that next to nothing could hold me down.” Determined not to be defined by her circumstances, she recognized education as the key to a fresh beginning and a whole new way of living. She earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak circumstances into a future filled with limitless possibility. Murray received her Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Psychology at Columbia University. Today, as co-founder and Executive Director of The Arthur Project, Murray is a passionate advocate for underserved youth, working to end generational poverty through relationship-based learning.
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The NHP Foundation's commitment and mission to preserve affordable housing and mission to preserve affordable housing is not realized through bricks and mortar alone, but in union with programs and services offered that help
transform residents’ lives. Residents in NHPF communities have access to a wide variety of educational, health, and enrichment programming through Operation Pathways, a subsidiary of NHPF.
Operation Pathways’ efforts in connecting housing with education has created a new partnership with CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology), a nonprofit education research organization and developers of the Universal Design for Learning. Together Operation Pathways and CAST have been awarded a three- year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and create a Multi- Generational Makerspace at NHPF’s Bayview Towers apartment community in Stamford, CT. The Makerspace movement focuses on exploratory learning opportunities in STEM by creating intentional spaces with materials, supplies and tools intended to increase educational and workforce readiness outcomes. By co-designing a Makerspace with residents in the context of affordable housing, Operation Pathways and CAST hope to increase access to innovative and evidence- based educational opportunities for whole families to learn together.
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Cherie Santos-Wuest NHPF TRUSTEE, MANAGING PARTNER CELADON VENTURE ADVISORS, FORMER DIRECTOR GLOBAL SOCIAL & COMMUNITY INVESTING TIAA-CREF
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Alla A. Eleon Patrick J. Fry
Carlos A. Gonzales Stephen M. Green John G. Hoffer Fred C. Mitchell Eric W. Price Tim Pryor Jamie A. Smarr Kendra C. M. Stensven Thomas G. Vaccaro Kenneth D. White Joseph P. Wiedorfer Barbara W. Wolf
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