Marian Cheek Jackson Center

Housing Justice and Advocacy:Organized neighbors to oversee a community landbank that has created over 50 units of housing. ;collaborated to complete emergency and comprehensive home repairs for a dozen elderly residents; carried out another year of a successful property tax mitigation program for 43 low-moderate income residents- including assisting folks with back-taxes; advocated and sustained property valuation reform, advocating Orange County municipal leadership to retain their annual property tax assistance program; collaborated with housing agencies to create 7 units of affordable housing; coordinated wills clinics and home preservation workshops for75 elderly households; trained and supervised 350 volunteers for atotal of 6400 total hours of engaged service, including supportingweekly food box delivery program that delivered 2800 boxes of food thismobilized a Student Leadership Group and a dozen otherstudent leaders to connect student and long-term residents throughengagement efforts, including organizing monthly neighborhood block parties and events

Youth Leadership and Civil Rights Education: Facilitated n-person civil rights and oral history workshops to over 1000 k-12 students in the district; distributed 250 Family Activity Boxes to elementary aged students in the district and neighborhood; coordinateda team of 7 Community Mentors to participate in virtual and in-personworkshops and share their stories first-hand; planned and expanded theSecond Annual Freedom School- a week long summer program for black and brown middle and high school students to learn civil rights history and social justice practices; partnered with the CHCCS district to in bed local civil rights history in Standard Course of Study for Elementary grades.

Neighborhood Events, Exhibits, and Oral History: Produced and delivered free community newspaper to 850+households each month; celebrated second anniversary of From The RockWall-a community owned oral history commons holding over 400 oralhistory interviews, thousands of photographs, and space for thecommunity to add and preserve it's history; conducted and processedoral history interviews to be added to the From the Rock Wallwebsite- launched to Builders Gateway oral history interview and community design process ; renewed large scale Northside Festival celebration for 300 residents.