What is the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative?

1. What is the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative? Syretta Hill Community Development Manager Wake County HFH (Raleigh)

2. 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.

4. What is the NRI model?

6. Habitat’s house-building model The affiliate’s service model is based solely on Habitat house-building. Where can we acquire a lot? Do we have Habitat-qualified families? How do we raise money to cover our costs? An affiliate decides to use the NRI model.

7. Habitat’s NRI model The affiliate’s service model is contextualized to each specific neighborhood. What is necessary for the highest quality of life in the focus neighborhood? What are the appropriate community partnerships to achieve No. 1? What housing products are appropriate? How are they attractive to donors? What are the new and innovative volunteer mobilization strategies? An affiliate decides to use the NRI model.

8. REPAIRS Habitat product spectrum • A Brush with Kindness • Exterior painting and minor repair • Critical Home Repairs • Repairs to alleviate health, life and safety/code issues • Weatherization • Improve energy efficiency and indoor air quality • Rehabilitation • NSP and others • Green in all rehab work • New • Green standards Neighborhood Revitalization Advocacy Family services Lending services Community development

9. NRI is advocating asset-based community development Needs based vs Asset based • Focus on community deficits • Fragmented understanding of the community associations • Externally based solutions • Broad understanding of potential assets • Integrated understanding of community associations • Emphasizes home-grown, appropriate, and sustainable solutions.

10. The benefits of NRI • 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.

11. Goal 1: Increase the capacity of Habitat

12. 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 2: NRI communities demonstrate a higherquality of life

13. Goal 3: Habitat receives broader-based financial support

14. Goal 4: Affiliates increase volunteer participation

15. Why do more now?

16. Why NRI? It’s our mission. Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

17. Why NRI? More communities are at risk than ever before.

18. Why NRI? Diversifying our portfolio will speed serving more families. That’s 75 families served for $2,862,500 or $38,167 per family.

19. NC affiliates enrolled in NRI