Power Station

Marla Bilonick, Executive Director, Latino Economic Development Center

Marla has mastered policy advocacy at the local level. It starts with
providing Latino families with the highest level of support for starting businesses, buying homes, and improving rental housing conditions. LEDC’s success, she says, is a result of a committed staff, who “change people’s lives.” As a result, local municipalities, including DC city government, look to LEDC to inform their policymaking. And advocacy at the national level has become a necessity, given LEDC’s connection to its immigrant constituency, in the current political climate. In the past, Marla explains, our advocacy was about the technical areas of small business and housing programs. Now we have different battles to fight.

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In the opening episode of Power Station, community development innovator Ron Hantz talks about changing up old paradigms and, as he explains it, elevating the vibrational levels in communities. Ron is an expert in financing and developing housing in disinvested communities of color. He believes that nonprofits must engage communities at all levels of development, including being at the table with policy makers, developers and neighborhood institutions, from churches to schools. Those values are core to his newest mission: building a network of African American led community development organizations that approach their work with consciousness and intention.

NDCC's upcoming event is a great opportunity to learn, collaborate, and help create a new paradigm for the future of community economic development. Join us! Register now for the NDCC Conference, May 30-June 1: ndccnetwork.org/national-conference- 2018/

Ron Hantz, Founder, Network for Developing Conscious Communities (NDCC)

Check out the opening episode of Power Station to hear Ron Hantz talk about a new movement for changing old paradigms for community development and as he explains it, elevating the vibrational levels in communities. Ron knows the nuts and bolts of financing and developing housing and businesses in disinvested communities. He also believes in a nonprofit’s responsibility to engage the people who live in those communities in the community development process. He is building a network of African American community development organizations that values both.

NDCC’s upcoming event is a great opportunity to learn, collaborate, and help create a new paradigm for the future of community economic development. Join us! Register now for the NDCC Conference, May 30-June 1: ndccnetwork.org/national-conference- 2018/