SHARED SERVICES ORGANIZATION
Equity Through Capacity
CHANGES NEEDED IN COMMUNITY NON PROFITS
➔ Organizational & Community Equity - Historic disinvestment has included a lack of philanthropic and community funding for small nonprofits.
➔ Nonprofit Administrative Capacity - The administrative capacity is the infrastructure that advances the values and goals of the organization and its programs.
➔ Local Need - According to the FHSP’s 2018 Nonprofit Assessment Report, the approximately 82% of Pinellas nonprofits have assets of less than $10,000.
We seek to address economic and community development inequities in the private and public sectors in historically excluded areas in St. Petersburg. Systemic racism, disinvestment in predominantly Black areas of St. Petersburg, and a long history of red lining and racist urban planning and policy, have contributed to the economic segregation of south St. Petersburg. Residents, businesses, and nonprofits of color are impacted by the outcomes of these long-term forces fueling racial inequity and trauma.
The city is now seeing a surge in development and economic growth; however, it has not been equitably distributed. Developers are looking to low-income neighborhoods to gentrify, pushing out long-time residents and businesses and destroying the social fabric and capital built by the community over decades. This is a story that has been told in thousands of black neighborhoods and cities across the United States as we reconcile how we address racial equity in a capitalist society built on white supremacist ideology.