BEYOND HOUSING-NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Beyond Housing Program
Through three comprehensive and innovative community development programs; Service-Enriched Rental Housing, Homeownership Services, and Community Engagement, Beyond Housing annually helps to improve the lives of more than 5,000 people each year. It has led the ongoing redevelopment and revitalization of an entire inner ring suburb. It has been at the forefront of counseling hundreds of local homeowners facing foreclosure. It has built dozens of new homes; rehabbed or repaired hundreds of others thereby increasing property values; provided homeownership and money management training for thousands; introduced an individual development account matched savings program to help build family wealth; and provided safe, positive activities for children and youth. Place-Based Community Building Much of our current work is place-based in Pagedale, where we were invited to help stabilize and improve the housing stock, help families identify and obtain educational, employment and support services, build community leadership capacity, and promote economic development. We positively touch more than 1,000 lives there each year. We have built 90 new homes and helped rehab hundreds of others. Our Pagedale Family Resource Center offers training programs, after school and summer youth programs, a food pantry, and other support services. Individual Development Accounts are helping residents build wealth for the future. Economic development efforts will soon result in a new grocery and other stores, generating jobs and attracting more investment. Our Pagedale work is a national model for revitalizing inner ring suburbs. Over time, we plan to expand this exciting program to the entire Normandy School District and its 40,000 residents. Regional Programs and Services On a regional basis, our programs include both Service-Enriched Rental Housing and our Homeownership Center. We work with individuals and families across the region to help them identify and address the barriers that may prevent them from achieving long-term stability and success. We own rental homes in 23 St. Louis County municipalities. We provide tenant families with a comprehensive array of educational, employment, youth development, and other support services to help them achieve their long-term goals. We provide education and one-one-one counseling to help families purchase and sustain the American dream of homeownershieducation and other goals.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We are a backbone organization that brings together a multitude of resources. We brings together existing resources and new ones with the goal of creating holistic solutions that will resulting in lasting change. Community members are key to our process and they will drive the efforts when our services are no longer needed.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Beyond Housing uses a process called Ask-Align-Act to engage the community on a variety of topics.
Ask: We ask residents what they would like to see and experience in their community.
Align: We align those desires with partners, resources, research and practice wisdom to ensure our actions are impactful and sustainable.
Act: We develop sustainable and impactful action plans and act on them, while continuing the Ask – Align – Act process to ensure we are on track.
We drive this work based on the idea of collective impact. Collective Impact occurs when organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Beyond Housing has 4 offices and 80+ employees working towards our mission. From 2010-2013 we have invested over $2.5 million in the rehab of homes, $3.4 million in home repair grants to low-income families, built a 42 unit senior building, and brought the first grocery store in over 40 years and first ever bank to our target community. Our Community Land Trust has stewarded over $50 million in community reinvestment.
We have a large network of partners working collectively with us, including 20+ municipalities, other non-profits, educational institutions, corporations, and donors.
In 2015 we will complete construction on our second senior building, a mixed-use retail development, and will increase our capacity to serve by bringing many our our resources under one roof with a new headquarters in the center of our service area. This will provide the opportunity for program expansion, and create additional space for community partners to collaborate..
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We report on outputs and outcomes for over 28 programs so it is difficult to summarize the breadth of our data. SMART goal data can be made available to funders.
A recent example of how outputs and outcomes changes the way were operate is in our Financial Education Department. Outcomes were indicating that people taking our home buyer education classes were not achieving the set goals (% grade in passing the exam). The program staff used this data to completely re-tool the way information was presented to align better with their measurement tools, increasing comprehension and raising test scores.
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Operations
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BEYOND HOUSING-NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
Board of directorsas of 03/16/2017
Craig Owens
City of Clayton
Chris Reimer
Kaldi's Coffee
Clayton M Evans
Paul R Martin
E.G. (Rev.) Shields
Mt. Beula M.B. Church
Erika Williams
BJC
Hazel Erby
St. Louis County Council
James H Purdy
Jean Cody
John Meyer
Capes, Sokol Goodman & Sarachan
Maxine Clark
Build-a-bear
Mayor James McGee
City of Vinita Park
Mayor Mary Carter
City of Pagedale
Mayor Viola Murphey
City of Cool Valley
Michael Williams
Edward Jones
Nick Overkamp
Heartland Bank
Randy Weller
Citi Community Development
Ray Boshara
Federal Reserve Bank
Reginald Dickson
Buford, Dickson, Harper & Sparrow, Inc.
Robert Cox
Ralonda Jasper
Express Scripts
James Watson
Midwest Bank Centre
Sheila Williams
Thomas George
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Ty McNicols
Normandy School District
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes