Project for Pride in Living (PPL)

Join us on August 9 at the St. Paul Saints game! Use this link to learn more and to get your tickets https://bit.ly/4fi8SvJ

At the end of May, we celebrated 10 Diploma Connect graduates! 🎓 👏 If you or someone you know may be interested in our adult diploma program, use this link to learn more https://bit.ly/3YaiKS6

On behalf of our client, Project for Pride in Living (PPL), CohenTaylor is conducting a retained executive search for its next President & CEO. Project for Pride in Living (PPL) was founded in 1972 to create affordable housing and revitalize central Minneapolis. PPL began by renovating blighted homes then added employment training services to prepare jobseekers for entry-level work with major Twin Cities' employers. Over 50 years later, PPL now helps nearly 7,500 individuals and families in the Twin Cities move into affordable housing, earn higher incomes, improve their academic skills, and gain economic independence each year. For more information about PPL, visit Project for Pride in Living (PPL)'s website. This is an exciting opportunity to join an incredible organization and provide leadership and direction in achieving the missional and financial objectives of PPL.  PPL is seeking an inspirational, collaborative, and empowering leader as their new President & CEO to proactively lead PPL into its next chapter. This leader will possess strong business acumen, proven ability to lead a highly qualified executive team, and demonstrate a commitment to race equity, inclusion, and justice in all aspects of the job. This leader will have a passion for community development, along with fluency and aptitude for the issues surrounding communities of color.  Salary range: $250,000 - $375,000 Location: Minneapolis, MN View the full position at https://lnkd.in/evsjZS3M For more information, or to submit your resume and application, please email [email protected]. All inquiries will remain confidential.

The Southside Peacekeeping Coalition is hosting another State of the Block on Thursday 7/18 from 5:30-7:30 PM! Come for a meal and stay to discuss what resources are needed to keep the Southside safe, inclusive, and healthy. No registration is required, children are welcome, and Somali and Spanish interpretation will be available. Norway House, Project for Pride in Living (PPL), CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN

Happy Hijri New Year to those who celebrate! PPL is wishing you a year filled with blessings, joy, and prosperity.

As of today, we are ONE MONTH away from our PPL Golf Classic! Use this link to register today: https://bit.ly/3XsU6vI

"The project, led by housing nonprofit Project for Pride in Living (PPL), is expected to be a game-changer for the city." https://bit.ly/3xFhmw6

The PPL LEAP Advancement Board is a group of young people, connected to LEAP, who are hired as PPL employees. They help inform the planning, implementation, and monitoring of opportunities & initiatives for LEAP. We currently have six active members, and our goal is to have one per LEAP Site! 😊

Last week, MPHA DED Dominic Mitchell joined the Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho, City of Minneapolis Mayor Frey, Hennepin County, Wells Fargo, and Project for Pride in Living (PPL) to celebrate the groundbreaking of Opportunity Crossing. This project will bring 110 affordable units, with 12 being supported by MPHA project-based vouchers.   Opportunity Crossing is a prime example of how MPHA directly supports deeply affordable housing in Minneapolis beyond its own ~6,000 units. Since 2019, MPHA project-based vouchers have accounted for more than half of all deeply affordable housing built in Minneapolis. MPHA is committed to this important work, with the goal of helping produce at least 150 new deeply affordable homes in Minneapolis a year.

A Minneapolis nonprofit housing developer broke ground Thursday on a six-story mixed-use building on the site of a Wells Fargo branch destroyed in the unrest following George Floyd’s murder. The new Opportunity Crossing complex is another piece of the redevelopment of the Nicollet Avenue intersection that saw multiple businesses damaged or destroyed. Project for Pride in Living (PPL) led the $61.6 million development, which will include 85 apartment units for large families, as well as a Wells Fargo branch, Afro Deli & Grill, Dominic's Tax Service, a quinceanera dress shop and a career opportunity center. Local business owners will own, rather than rent, their commercial space. Developers expect to complete the 110-unit complex in 18 months. Funding came from federal and local sources, and from Wells Fargo & Xcel Energy. “Communities that have no sense of agency and no ownership in their place, in their future, have very few options and so little to lose,” Paul Williams, PPL’s president and CEO, said at the groundbreaking. “The lesson is that community ownership and community voice, particularly in communities of color, is important to all of us.” He also said involving the community in the process is part of “equitable” development. In March 2021, the Minneapolis-based Cultural Wellness Center began gathering neighborhood input to incorporate into the project. Anthony Taylor, CWC’s development lead, said the community was involved early in the process and participants were told they had influence on the development. “Many marginal communities don’t trust cities, they don’t believe that things are being built for them. They think they’re being built to move them out,” Taylor said. “We developed a process that always focused on the artists, talked about culture, and gave people information they needed to understand the development process itself.” The project site is located in a neighborhood with a “highly dense” Somali population and a big Latino community nearby, Taylor said. Community members who attended listening sessions said they wanted the project to incorporate local businesses. In addition, many immigrant families are larger, so they wanted units to have more bedrooms. The building will have 110 units in total. Eighty-five of them are 2-, 3- & 4-bedroom units designed for larger families. All apartment rents are designated for very low-income families in the area, who earn about 30 to 50% of median income. 12 of the units will have a voucher from the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to cover most of the rent. “Affordable housing can be beautiful. It can be community-oriented. It can be mixed-use. It can have a beautiful diversity of people and a beautiful diversity of socioeconomic backgrounds,” Frey said at the groundbreaking. “We’re reinventing how we’re thinking about things in the city of Minneapolis, and I think we’re doing it in a beautiful phoenix rising way.”