Yachad, Inc.
Building Bridges by Building Communities
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Owning one's home is part of the proverbial "American Dream." It is also a way to acquire growing financial equity. Home ownership provides a stable foundation for a family to thrive for years to come. For many lower income homeowners, this dream becomes a nightmare when aging housing stock is in need of serious repairs and maintenance but there is no resources to take care of the problems. Homeowners are faced with growing bills, dangerous conditions and the temptation to sell their once prized homes. Yachad's work in partnership with homeowners, preserves and maintains these homes making them safe again for generations of family members.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Healthy Housing Home Remediation Programs
1. Healthy Housing Remediation Program provides home repair services to lower income families to remediate housing issues impacting a family's health.
2. The Faith-to-Faith Community Development Program - is community development partnership between Yachad and Black churches to engage in community redevelopment. This interfaith and interracial collaboration provides organized opportunities for the Jewish community to partner with churches to build a strong community development capacity within each church.
3. Hard Hats and Helping Hands-Construction professionals and volunteers repair the homes of lower-income Washington-area residents.
4. Ramp It Up!with Yachad-High school students spend a week in the summer building an access ramp for a lower-income Washington-area homeowner with disabilities while learning about poverty, affordable housing, living with disabilities and the Jewish values underlying our commitment to community service.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of low-income families housed in affordable, well-maintained units as a result of the nonprofit's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Infants and toddlers, Seniors
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Families receiving comprehensive remediation repair services including weatherization, energy efficiency measures and healthy housing repairs
Number of children and youth who have received access to stable housing
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adolescents
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Yachad's home repair work is targeted to families with children.
Number of people no longer living in unsafe or substandard housing as a result of the nonprofit's efforts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Over the past four years, new funding has allowed us to do more work per house than in the past. New funding allows Yachad to tackle more serious repair issues.
Number of youth who volunteer/participate in community service
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people, People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Summer program provides opportunity for teens to build an access ramp for a person with disabilities. Teens do meaningful community service while learning how to use power tools
Number of families who report that service and support staff/providers are available and capable of meeting family needs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
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?
Yachad's primary mission and goal is to bring communities together by preserving affordable homes and revitalizing neighborhoods throughout the District of Columbia and the greater metropolitan area. Yachad means “together" in Hebrew, and that is how we do our work through partnerships with homeowners, houses of worship, nonprofits, and other community stakeholders. We mobilize skilled and unskilled volunteers, invest financial resources, and, through our work together, transform people and properties. Our mission is rooted in the Jewish commitment to seek justice by engaging in acts of loving kindness. We welcome people of all faiths to share in our work to keep our communities diverse and vital.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Mobilize: Yachad mobilizes resources by creating synergies among people and instituions that have a mutual stake in perserving their community. Yachad's volunteer teams coalesce around an indentified need and work together to rebuild and revitalize deteriorating buildings offering famlies a new start in their homes.Yachad also works with houses of worship, nonprofit facilities to maintaing and preserve their properties. Invest: Yachad invests in the community and asks supporteres to the same. Contributions pay for roofs, kitchens, bathrooms, electrical and plumbing. Donation go far, but stay close to home. Transform: When Yachad works on a home or a community facility, the surrounding neighborhood transforms too. The work echoes through the community by improving one home after another.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Yachad does this work with a small staff of four full-time professionals. We have a volunteer pool of skilled and unskilled professionals which allow us to leverage tremendous amount of work for very little cost. The Yachad board of directors provides invaluable real estate and construction expertise for no cost to our community partners.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Yachad continue to make progress in all of its work as our website indicates at www.yachad-dc.org.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Yachad, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/11/2024
Sam Hollman
Rock Creek Property Group
Roxanne Littner
no affiliation
Alan Kanner
Added Dimensions
Louis Tenenbaum
Aging in Place
Scott Burka
EJF Real Estate
Samuel Holman
Rock Creek Property Group
Rochelle Grossman
George Brown
Jay Haynes
Rock Creek Property Group
Lily Goldstein
JBG
Carol Steinbach
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? No -
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
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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