You’re Invited: Support a Rising Star…and 12th Avenue Arts

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Join Caffe Vita, Neumos, Via Tribunali, and Seattle Boxing Studio on February 3rd to celebrate Scribes’ birthday! Not only is Scribes one of the northwest’s most notable hip hop artists, he is an assistant site manager with Capitol Hill Housing.

Following his performance at Neumos, Via Tribunali will be hosting an after party with a special focus on 12th Avenue Arts. The restaurant will be launching a fundraising promotion to benefit the campaign from now until March 24th, as well as, donating a portion of proceeds from the after party to the campaign. Visit 12th Avenue Arts here: http://www.facebook.com/12thavenuearts

Doors open at 8pm for Scribes show. You can get tickets here: http://bit.ly/ySMyyA

Watch the video below on Scribes’ music, his work with CHH and the Seattle Boxing Studio.

Local philanthropist and business owner joins 12th Avenue Arts Leadership Team

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Liz Weber of Caffe Vita and Via Tribunali joined the campaign leadership team for 12th Avenue Arts. She is widely known in the Capitol Hill Community, as well as, for her leadership of the THAW Fashion Show held annually in SODO benefiting Huntington’s Disease.

We are excited to have her on board, and look forward to working with her to make 12th Avenue Arts a reality in the year ahead.

The full list of the campaign leadership team can be found here:  http://capitolhillhousing.org/howyoucanhelp/visionandteam.php

Finding a stable home with CHH

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Finding a stable home with Capitol Hill Housing 

 Across our region, residents are trying to get by with less. We all have friends or neighbors who are struggling to pay their medical bills or who are experiencing unemployment for the first time in their lives. Families that never thought they’d need affordable housing are asking for help.

Since 1976, Capitol Hill Housing has ceaselessly supported neighbors who are one paycheck away from homelessness.

One such neighbor is Edie Wilch. As a single mom in 1980′s Seattle, Edie had a hard time finding a stable and affordable home. With the help of Capitol Hill Housing, Edie moved into a two-bedroom apartment at the Casa Di Cinque on 19th Avenue. From that base, she was able to find steady work as an elementary school teacher and raise her daughter Rachel.

Edie and Rachel Wilch

Donating to CHH today keeps current Capitol Hill Housing residents, like Edie and Rachel, in their homes. Your gift increases our capacity to provide affordable housing to families and children, including families in crisis, recent immigrants, people transitioning out of homelessness, and seniors on fixed incomes.

To help us meet our year end goals, The Plum Creek Foundation will match dollar-for-dollar, up to $8,000, any donations made to CHH until the end of December 2011. Their generosity means that a gift made today will automatically have double the impact in our community.

We ask you to consider making a tax-deductible gift right now to keep rents affordable and support over one thousand households. Whether you give $5,000, $500 or $50, making a donation right now will benefit our neighbors in need and will allow CHH to more effectively and efficiently serve our community.  Making a recurring monthly donation is a simple way to support families throughout the year.

 

http://capitolhillhousing.org/howyoucanhelp

SU’s Small Business Institute Offers Low & No-Cost Small Business & Non-Profit Consulting

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For the past 35 years, Seattle University’s Small Business Institute (SBI) program has provided free and low cost consulting services to over 2,000 small businesses and nonprofits. This winter quarter, SU professor and SBI Director Dr. Harriet Stephenson will be teaching two undergraduate classes of students who will provide an overall analysis for Seattle and Bellevue area small businesses and nonprofits. This analysis consists of:

1. defining the business and its mission
2. establishing goals or where you want the business to be a year and five years from now including revenue and profit goals
3. assessing where the business is now–strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats; which usually includes marketing research to help identify target market(s), develop an appropriate Internet strategy, and construct a rudimentary marketing plan
4. performing cash flow projections and a pro forma P&L and balance sheet for one year
5. recommendations for action to help achieve those projections and goals

The analysis is a ten-week project which coincides with the academic quarter. Each business is assigned a team of 2-5 students, who invest 70-120 hours each to the project of the course of the quarter. The owner or executive director of the organization receiving consulting services is expected to invest an average of 20 hours during the quarter meeting with their student team. Organizations with an annual income/sales/revenue of $300,000 or more and startups with a projected first year sales of $300,000 or more will be asked to pay a $500 administrative fee. Any business whose revenue falls under $300,000 will not be charged.

Organizations will be considered for the program if they 1) have 1-50 employees, 2) are willing to have their student consultant team review their prior financials (such as P&L statements and balance sheets), and 3) register online before the program begins on January 4th – the sooner the better. If you think a comprehensive small business/non-profit analysis would benefit your organization, sign up today!

Season of Giving: Local Businesses Give Back to CHH this Holiday Season

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Local marketing firm, Golden Lasso, will be making the holiday season a bit brighter for CHH residents by making a gift of $1,250 to support our newly launched Resident Services Program. This new initiative, led by CHH staff member Ashley Palar, will provide our low-income tenants with information and access to supportive services and resources that can assist them in achieving long-term housing stability and self-sufficiency.

From December 1st through 10th, NuBe Green will be running a special promotion called “Art of the Party” to benefit 12th Avenue Arts. NuBe will donate 10% of all purchases in store when you mention 12th Avenue Arts and 10% of all purchases online at NuBeGreen.com, when using special code: 12thAveArts at check-out.

We are delighted to receive support from these local businesses. NuBe and Golden Lasso join a growing list of area and neighborhood businesses that are supporting CHH and our newest developments and programs. Their gifts show that community involvement is good business.

David Dologite to Lead Capitol Hill Housing Real Estate Department

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David Dologite, the new Director of Real Estate and Sustainable Communities at Capitol Hill Housing

Experienced Bay Area affordable housing developer named Director of Real Estate and Sustainable Communities

Following a nationwide search, Capitol Hill Housing has selected David Dologite as the new director of Real Estate and Sustainable Communities. With the full support of both board and staff involved with the search, David has been hired to lead the real estate and community development activities of CHH.

David brings a dozen years of community development and affordable housing experience to the position. Working in San Francisco and Oakland, he was the lead developer on a number of complex buildings that brought much needed affordable apartments to the Bay Area. In particular, David was instrumental in fostering partnerships to make projects financially feasible, including inventive collaborations with market rate developers and community organizations such as the Native American Health Center, Rubicon Programs and East Bay Community Law Center.

Most recently David worked at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in San Francisco as Senior Project Manager, where he oversaw a number of affordable housing developments. Most notably, he successfully negotiated a joint venture agreement with a market-rate partner for development of a 190 apartment, $70 million mixed income residential tower. A leader in Bay Area affordable housing, TNDC has a staff of 270 and serves more than 3,000 residents. Prior to his decade of affordable housing work in California, David was involved with community building efforts in Boston. David is a trained attorney, with a background in transactional law.

“David brings the entire skill set we were looking for in a Director of Real Estate and Sustainable Communities,” stated Christopher Persons, Executive Director of Capitol Hill Housing. “From his deep experience in negotiating complex partnerships and financing deals to on-the-ground community building work, David is an excellent addition to the Capitol Hill Housing team. He will bring a broad perspective and new level of strategic analysis to our real estate and community work.”

“I am thrilled to get involved with Capitol Hill Housing and the larger affordable housing community in Seattle,” stated David Dologite. “In getting to know the organization, I am impressed with CHH’s focus on developing affordable apartments within a neighborhood context and as assets for the broader community.”

David will lead the Real Estate and Sustainable Communities efforts at Capitol Hill Housing, overseeing both the day-to-day operations and new project development for the department. Joining at a time when CHH has an active pipeline of future real estate developments, is exploring the creation of an EcoDistrict on Capitol Hill and is deeply involved in transit oriented development at the new light rail station, David joins a strong, growing organization.

Run For Homes Team Crosses the Finish Line for CHH

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Run For Homes team member and former lead architect for a CHH building Jon Hall poses for a photo in the "recovery room" after running the Seattle half marathon to support CHH.

This past Sunday, 14 people hit the pavement at the Seattle Marathon to support Capitol Hill Housing under the banner of the Run For Homes team. Participants from all walks of life and with many different affiliations to CHH pooled their efforts to train for the marathon while raising vital funds to support CHH’s mission. The team braved the rain and cold on race day to cross the finish line for Capitol Hill Housing. Combined, the team raised over $7,700 to help provide safe, affordable housing for 1,700 people of limited means living in CHH housing.

Thank you to our dedicated Run For Homes team members, the over 100 donors who sponsored a team member, and our event sponsor, the CoHo Team of Windermere Agents.

If you are interested in joining the Run For Homes team next year, please contact Ragnar Thorisson at rthorisson@capitolhillhousing.org to sign up today.

Local Businesses Rally Behind 12th Avenue Arts

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Event at Sole Repair

Business and community leaders learning more about 12th Avenue Arts at a recently held event on Capitol Hill.

If you are looking for some good news – look no further.

Area businesses have donated an impressive $122,000 to 12th Avenue Arts since late September! With their investment, the capital campaign has raised over $1.1 million, nearly 40% of the total campaign goal of $3,000,000. 

We are thrilled to count these locally-owned businesses as supporters and friends in our efforts to bring permanently affordable arts space and housing to Capitol Hill:

Bimbo’s Cantina and Cha-Cha Lounge
Caffe Vita
Coughlin, Porter, and Lundeen
Groff Murphy
High 5 Pie/Fuel Coffee
King’s Hardware
Linda’s
Molly Moon’s
Neumos
Oddfellows
Smith
The Garage

Supporting 12th Avenue Arts is smart business:

  • Early estimates suggest the development will create 50 new jobs right here in our neighborhood.
  • Two new theatres, locally-owned restaurants, retail, and commercial space will enhance the vibrancy of the burgeoning 12th Avenue arts and foodie scene.
  • 88 new affordable apartment homes will provide housing for the area’s workforce.

If you are a local business interested in learning more about how you can get involved or how you can support this new neighborhood development, please contact Leigh Ann at 206-204-3809, or email her at lsmith@capitolhillhousing.org.