The vision is not just to increase services for Poughkeepsie youth - the vision is to build a new, state-of-the-art Youth Opportunity Center that will set a standard for youth empowerment and create a model for a homegrown approach to workforce development as a means of supporting increased economic activity.

The John Marshall Neighborhood Opportunity Hub on the far eastside of Indianapolis solves a list of community needs with private-public collaboration at an abandoned high school in one of the city’s most highly populated distressed neighborhoods.

Our team has worked with community leaders to build growth plans, message change initiatives, and redevelop neighborhoods for over forty years. Since 2014, we have specifically advanced the concept of Neighborhood Opportunity Hubs.

In 2017, the City of Elkhart adopted the River District Revitalization Master Plan. Developed with broad community stakeholder involvement, the plan was built on the previous decades of investment in Elkhart’s struggling Main Street. This effort shared a vision for the River District to be an expansion of downtown, as a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood redeveloped on 100-plus acres of parking lots, out lot retailers, former industrial sites, and auto-repair shops. Over 65% of the $300-plus million mixed-use development has been realized within five-years. The area continues to attract significant new private investment.  

In this new age of a pandemic, racial tension, political divide, global power shifts, redefinition of family and individual identities, and the inequality of accessible and quality educational opportunities leading to prosperity, we are reminded that the quest for freedom and the American Way remains much the same as our forefathers intended to achieve in their early fight for justice and the pursuit of happiness for all. 

Trends for almost two decades now is for most households to prefer to live where they can live, work, shop, recreate and find most of the services they require within a convenient distance – approximately 15 minutes away.  Ideally, we are finding that many residents prefer the car trip to be less, and that they can access these conveniences by foot or bike in 15 minutes or less. Neighborhoods that immediately provide these everyday needed and desired amenities, we call Complete Neighborhoods.

Leadership and team dynamics across enterprises have dramatically changed in the last few years due to multiple aspects, such as hybrid workplace culture, the great resignation, and increasing emphasis on DEI. This raises the need for leaders to adopt a framework that can help them quickly adapt, execute, realign, and consistently foster sound strategies, stability, and sustainability within their organizations.

For the American economy to rally and re-establish strong growth trends, we must examine at its foundation: manufacturing. The foundation is eroding at an alarming rate, and rather than reinforcing it we must focus on renovation through innovation.