What is the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative?
Syretta HillCommunity Development Manager
Wake County HFH (Raleigh)
Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative affiliates serve more families by responding to community aspirations with an expanded array of products, services and partnerships, with the mission of empowering residents to revive their neighborhoods and enhance the quality of life.
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What is the NRI model?
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Habitat’s house-building model
The affiliate’s service model is based solely on Habitat house-building.
1. Where can we acquire a lot?2. Do we have Habitat-qualified
families?3. How do we raise money to
cover our costs?
An affiliatedecides to use the NRI model.
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Habitat’s NRI model
An affiliatedecides to use the NRI model.
The affiliate’s service model is contextualized to each specific neighborhood.1. What is necessary for the highest
quality of life in the focus neighborhood?
2. What are the appropriate community partnerships to achieve No. 1?
3. What housing products are appropriate?
4. How are they attractive to donors?5. What are the new and innovative
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REPAIRS
Neighborhood Revitalization
Critical Home Repairs
•Repairs to alleviate health, life and safety/code issues
A Brush with Kindness• Exterior
painting and minor repair
Weatherization• Improve energy
efficiency and indoor air quality
New• Green
standards
Rehabilitation• NSP and
others• Green in all
rehab work
Advocacy Lending services
Community development
Habitat product spectrum
Familyservices
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• Focus on community deficits
• Fragmented understanding of the community associations
• Externally based solutions
NRI is advocating asset-based community development
Needs based vs Asset based
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• Broad understanding of potential assets
• Integrated understanding of community associations
• Emphasizes home-grown, appropriate, and sustainable solutions.
• To families: Additional housing products available; better communities; children raised in healthy and secure environments.
• To the community: Higher overall quality of life; increased housing needs will be filled; creating a cohesive community that can more successfully lobby local municipalities for services.
• To affiliates: Serving more families in need; access to new local donors and partners; potential to access more HFHI funds; better community exposure and reputation; integration into the communities where affiliates work.
The benefits of NRI
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Goal 1: Increase the capacity of Habitat
FY09 FY130
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
10,000
11,000
Weatherization
Home Repairs
A Brush with Kindness
Rehabs
New construction
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Goal 2: NRI communities demonstrate a higher quality of life
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Some possible qualitative measures will be:
• What percentage of families feel connected to their neighbors and neighborhood?
• How many families would reach out to their neighbors to help with an emergency trip to the hospital?
• Do a majority of the families in the neighborhood feel it is safer than it was before the project started.
• What percentage of the neighborhood’s families think that public services like garbage pickup and police patrols are adequate in the neighborhood?
Goal 3: Habitat receives broader-based financial support
FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012
FY 2013
Affiliate funds raised (investment should trend up)
Affiliate establishes base-year data FY09 and FY10
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
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Goal 4: Affiliates increase volunteer participation
FY 2010 FY 2011
FY 2012
FY 2013
Volunteer hours Affiliate establishes base-year data FY09 and FY10
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
Affiliate sets ongoing goals
Discrete number of volunteers mobilizedVariety of tasks performed by volunteers
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Why do more now?
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Seeking to put God's love into action,
Habitat for Humanity brings people
together to build homes, communities and
hope.
Why NRI? It’s our mission.
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Why NRI? More communities are at risk than ever before.
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That’s 75 families served for $2,862,500 or
$38,167 per family.
Why NRI? Diversifying our portfolio will speed serving more families.
# Housing solution Price per Total
20 New - green $110,000 $2,200,000
5 Rehabilitated $100,000 $500,000
25 A Brush with Kindness $4,000 $100,000
25 Weatherization $2,500 $62,500
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Affiliate Executive Director ContactAsheville Area HFH Lewis Kraus (828) 274-2037
Cabarrus Co. HFH Dave Zablotny (704) 786-4001
Caldwell Co. HFH Pete Kidder (828) 758-8757
Cape Fear HFH in search process (910) 762-4744
HFH of Charlotte Bert Green (704) 376-2054
HFH of Durham Satana Deberry (919) 824-5765
HFH of Forsyth Co. Sylvia Oberle (336) 765-8854
HFH of Gtr Greensboro Winston McGregor (336) 275-4663
HFH of Matthews Cristen Wolf (704) 847-4266Our Towns of N. Mecklenburg Terry Laney (704) 896-8957
HFH of the NC Sandhills Elizabeth Cox (910) 295-1934
HFH of Wake Co. Kevin Campbell (919) 833-1999
NC affiliates enrolled in NRI
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