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The Insight Center's stated goal is “Helping people and communities become, and remain, economically secure.” It was founded in 1969 and is "a national research, consulting, advocacy, and legal services organization dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities," according to their website.[1]

As noted in the "History" of the Insight Center, "Community activists in the 1960’s ignited the community economic development (CED) movement, supported by the federal government and the Ford Foundation, to bring low-income communities into the economic mainstream and to lift the poor out of poverty. Initially, dozens of nonprofit, community-based development corporations were funded under the theory that the residents of low-income communities should have a leading voice in the development of their own communities."[2]

The Insight Center for Community Economic Development (the Insight Center) was originally called the National Housing and Economic Development Law Project and later the National Economic Development and Law Center.

The Insight Center's Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative is a "national effort to address the wealth gap that leaves the average American family of color with only 16 cents for every dollar owned by the average white family. To close this gap in the next generation, we have brought together over 180 scholars, advocates, and practitioners of color to inform the national economic debate with diverse perspectives and provide policy solutions to create a more inclusive and equitable future for all Americans."[3]

National Advisory Board

  • Henry Cisneros, In 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. He was subsequently elected to four terms. In 1992, President Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”). After leaving HUD in 1997, Mr. Cisneros became President and COO of Univision Communications.
  • Albert Moreno served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Levi Strauss & Co. from 1996 to November 2005. He has been a Director of Xcel Energy Inc. since 2000.
  • Carla Javits is the President of REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) which provides equity-like investments and business assistance to create and grow ‘double bottom line’, non-profit run social enterprises that "create jobs as a means to ending cycles of unemployment, homelessness, and incarceration by employing people who face high barriers. The employees gain experience and earn a paycheck, while the nonprofits generate income that makes the businesses sustainable."
  • Gloria Castillo is president and CEO of Chicago United, a corporate membership organization that "promotes multiracial leadership in business to advance parity in economic opportunity. Under the leadership of Ms. Castillo, Chicago United has launched nationally recognized programs including the annual Changing Color of Leadership Conference and Bridge Awards Dinner, the Business Leaders of Color publications, BoardLink, The Five Forward Initiative, and the Transformative Inclusion Members Series that presents national thought leaders in diversity and inclusion research.
  • Ivye Allen, President/CEO of Foundation for the Mid South, "understands that no one organization or sector can singlehandedly improve the social and economic conditions in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The Foundation leads efforts to increase capacity and civic engagement as well to improve racial, social, and economic outcomes throughout the Mid South."
  • Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team.
  • John Foster-Bey is President and CEO at CSR, Inc., a "leading provider of professional and technical services to government, private, and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Dr. Foster-Bey has more than 30 years of experience in program evaluation, performance measurement, research studies, and quantitative analysis. He joined CSR in 2008 after 5 years as senior advisor to the Director of Research and Policy Development at the Corporation for National and Community Services."
  • John Morning has been President of John Morning Design, Inc., a graphic design firm since 1960. Mr. Morning served as Chairman of Henry Street Settlement and serves as its Director. He is a Trustee of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and serves as a Director of the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. He serves as Member of the board of Directors of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
  • Linda Smith Lowe is a public policy advocate specializing in health issues at Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP). A former health planner, Linda has worked for over 30 years (now part-time) as the Health Policy Specialist for Georgia Legal Services Program focusing on Medicaid and other health programs and issues for low-income Georgians. At GLSP her work includes policy analysis, training for attorneys and other legal workers, consultation on individual cases and on major litigation, and administrative advocacy.
  • Michael Petro is the Vice President, Director of Business and Government Policy, and Chief of Staff for the Committee for Economic Development (CED). In this capacity, Michael is responsible for connecting CED’s policy projects and activities to the business community, government officials, and members of the media.
  • Richard Woo is the CEO of The Russell Family Foundation. He has experience in global philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. Before joining The Russell Family Foundation in 2000, he worked for nearly twelve years at Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco in community relations, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.
  • Rob McKay, Chairman of the Board of the Democracy Alliance and President of the McKay Family Foundation, which supports community-based organizations working for long-term social, political, and economic progress. Rob, along with his brother and parents, established the McKay Foundation in January 1992. In recent years, the family foundation has supported efforts to bring health care coverage and a living wage to low-income workers, and it has given grants to groups in California working on issues such as affordable housing, economic development, and voter engagement."
  • Unmi Song, President of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, a private foundation that awards $8 million in grants annually to nonprofits serving low-income communities in Chicago with a focus on arts education, education, employment and health. She also serves on the board of directors at the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Prior to joining the Fry Foundation in 2003, she handled employment program grantmaking, which covered job training and welfare policy issues, at the Joyce Foundation. Before she moved into the nonprofit sector, she was a vice president of Bankers Trust Company and held positions at Citicorp Investment Bank in New York City, at the First National Bank of Chicago and at Gold Star Tele-Electric Company, in Seoul, Korea.

Leadership

  • Henry A.J. Ramos, CEO
  • Anne Price, Managing Program Director and Chief Asset Building Officer
  • Brad Caftel, Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer
  • Gabriela Sandoval, Director of Research and Chief Economic Security Officer
  • Jack Mills, Chief Workforce Strategy Officer and Director of the National Network of Sector Partners
  • Jim Torrens, Associate Director of Workforce Innovation and the National Network of Sector Partners
  • Marsha Caldwell, Director of Administration and Executive Assistant

Team

Board Officers

Board Members

References

  1. ↑ the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, accessed December 20, 2015
  2. ↑ The Birth of the CED Movement, accessed December 21, 2015
  3. ↑ Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, accessed December 20, 2015
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