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Jared Dunn Field Report
2. Organizational profile:
a. leadership
President: Rev. Charles B. Jackson
Vice President and Executive Director: Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes
Board:
Rev. Charles B. Jackson (Pastor)
Elder Morris Lockett(Pastor)
Ms. Karla Shelby (Community Member)
Versie Pettigrew (Community Member)
Ralph Edwards (Community Member)
Carla Carreston (Community Member)
Sherry Gray (Community Member)
Past Board Members:
Joan Villa (Community Member)
Daniel Walker (Community Member)
Harold Muhammad (COO)
Pat Benton (Community Member
The board is looking for 3 new members and making an organizational transition.
b. structure
• Faith-Based, 501(c)3
• Neighborhood community center
• Certified CDE, Dept. of the Treasury – “Certification as a C.D.E. means Metanoia Centers has access to both technical and financial assistance in their capacity building as an emerging CDFI. This allows them to provide technical assistance to residents on managing their personal finances through consumer education programs as well as providing technical assistance and consulting services to newly formed small businesses located in distressed communities.”
• An active part of state and national community organizing and advocacy networks, through Illinois People’s Action and National People’s Action.
Staff.
Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes
Past staff:
Patricia Martin (Neighborhood Services Coordinator)
Harold Muhammad (COO)
Eon Schwab (Field Representative)
Occasional volunteers through community service programs or from affiliates and project partners.
Info on structure
Metanoia Center's Board meets monthly and includes the Project Director, Counselors, Board members, staff and volunteers. The Board is a working board that also involves a Project Management Team. The Board reviews the project's goals and their results, conducting planning, and address issues with individual clients or other issues of concern not directly addressed in the goals and results. This “Project Management Team” spearheads the continuous improvement effort by establishing process-based goals and periodically reviewing progress toward these goals. These efforts inform mission-critical activities-tutoring, preparations, family involvement, community involvement, strengthening support systems, budgeting, fundraising, etc.- well before outcomes are realized, giving the Executive Director an opportunity to adjust program activities to maximize their effectiveness.
c. constituency
1. Immediate Bristol Place neighborhood
2. Neighboring Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park
3. N. Champaign and the Champaign-Urbana African-American community more generally.
4. People who need help on poverty, housing and lending issues, locally and statewide.
5. National policy advocacy on housing, predatory lending, redlining, foreclosure, etc.
“Our services are primarily targeted to individuals and families at or below 80% of the median income level as assessed by HUD. The majority of our constituency is characterized as low and moderate income multiracial /ethnic with (a growing Hispanic base).” – Kraft Grant Application
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