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2011 Leaders: Building Our Future Together

The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project’s December 8th Second Annual Fundraiser and Inaugural Awards Ceremony was a success.

Pictured: Awardee Victory Christian Fellowship Pastor Rev. Ed Crenshaw, HUD Acting Deputy Secretary Estelle Richman, Upper Darby Councilman Nate Goodson, Awardee Coatesville City Assistant Manager Kirby Hudson and Ted Reed, former Coatesville City Manager

Also honored were U.S. Congressman Jim Gerlach and State Senator Ted Erickson.

In her remarks, keynote speaker, HUD Acting Deputy Secretary Estelle Richman, enthusiastically reiterated HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan’s commitments to the First Suburbs Project that HUD “is willing, ready and able” to do whatever it can to make our region a model mobility, diversity and fair housing enforcement.

Leaders: Building Our Future Together

Join the Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project to celebrate our organization’s progress in realizing our collective vision to make southeastern Pennsylvania a fair, stable, and prosperous place to live.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project’s
Second Annual Fundraiser and Inaugural Awards Ceremony

Thursday, December 8, 2011 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050

Keynote Speaker — Estelle Richman, U.S. HUD Acting Deputy Secretary

HONOREES:

U.S. Congressman Jim Gerlach

State Senator Ted Erickson

Rev. Ed Crenshaw, Victory Christian Fellowship

Kirby Hudson, City of Coatesville Assistant Manager

$100 per person • $75 for First Suburbs Project members

To purchase tickets:

To purchase an Ad in the event Program Book, sponsor the event or
contribute to the Jonathan T. Schmidt Leadership Training Fund:

Building One Pennsylvania Statewide Public Meeting

800 Leaders at Building One Pennsylvania Public Meeting on October 27, 2011 at the Bright Side Baptist Church in Lancaster, PA

Leaders from across the state convened to present an agenda for change to state and federal policymakers that will stabilize and revitalize our communities. The 800 leaders from across the state secured a commitment from U.S. HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan to work directly with Building One Pennsylvania and our regional and national partners to “end the tyranny of the zip code.” He specifically committed to working with the First Suburbs Project to make the southeastern Pennsylvania region a model of regional fair housing.

Donovan also reported that HUD, DOT and EPA are creating a “preferred sustainability status,” to give funding priority through their competitive grants to communities that develop strong plans to re-invest in existing communities and create regional opportunity by coordinating transportation, housing, and access to jobs.

Plans are already in the works to meet with a bi-partisan group of members of Congress to develop “sustainability” criteria for federal transportation funding. In the large public meeting, the same concepts of funding priorities were introduced as it relates to state policy. Bi-partisan support was secured from Senator Ted Erickson, Rep. Tom Killion, Rep. Hennessey, Rep. Mike Sturla, and Greg Grasa (policy analyst for the House Transportation Committee) to work with us on developing similar performance criteria for transportation and infrastructure funding.

Click here for press in Lancaster Online Newspaper.

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