Fw: Evanston housing/climate Opportunity

[Joel Freeman]

Hi Energy Action Friends,

See the email below from Bob Dean. Bob provided insightful contributions as a member of the CARP working group. He's now executive director at CNT.

This is an opportunity for people like us to assist with this affordable housing/energy initiative in an advisory role. The City's lead is Cara Pratt and our assisitance would certainly help her, in addition to establishing relationships with other organizations for more impact. 

Please consider this potent opportunity and let me know if you're interested. I can pass along your name to Bob. Also feel free to contact Bob directly. 

Thanks!

Joel

Joel S. Freeman, P.E., LEED AP  

224.456.8971 (mobile) 

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From: Bob Dean <bob...@cnt.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2022 7:50 AM
To: Joel Freeman <JFre...@grummanbutkus.com>
Subject: Evanston housing/climate question

 

 

Hi Joel, hope you’ve been doing well! I had a question for you related to our service together on CARP a few years ago:

 

As you may know, Evanston is using ARPA funds to support a one stop shop resilient home rehab pilot program, with the goal of both advancing equity and addressing climate change. The program will prioritize investments in Evanston’s existing affordable homes and will be informed in large part by a 2019-2021 community-driven design and research effort.  

 

Evanston Development Cooperative, Elevate, and the Center for Neighborhood Technology are supporting the city in the implementation of the program, which will kick off in early 2023. We are actively seeking residents and representatives from local organizations to join a Program Advisory Group that will inform decisions that need to be made before and during program implementation. We expect the group to meet monthly for the next few months and then shift to less frequent meetings, with 6-8 total meetings expected.

 

If you’re interested or know an Evanstonian who might be, let me know, and the team will follow up with more information and next steps. Thank you!

 

bd

 

Bob Dean, CEO

Center for Neighborhood Technology

17 N State Street Suite 1400, Chicago IL 60602

Office: 773-917-5898 / Cell: 215-990-5323

bob...@cnt.org

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[Joel Freeman]

Hi Everyone,

Just making sure you got to see T's background info in the building world. Due to some email communications issues, this did not reach the entire google group on Friday.

Joel

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From: Theodore Manning <theo_m...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2022 8:26 PM
To: Joel Freeman <JFre...@grummanbutkus.com>
Cc: renewe...@googlegroups.com <renewe...@googlegroups.com>; Grace Choi <grace.s...@gmail.com>; Catie Lott <cati...@gmail.com>; Leslie Palmer Garcia <leslie...@gmail.com>; Isaac Larkin <eye...@gmail.com>; Hal Sprague <h...@trajectoryenergy.com>; Jessy Bradish <jessica...@gmail.com>; nosmal...@gmail.com <nosmal...@gmail.com>
Subject: Evanston Housing/Climate Opportunity

 

Thanks, Joel.  I’m quite interested.

Through our work together on the Citizens’ Greener Evanston Energy Working Group, you and the others have only heard bits and pieces about me and my company.

But I’m well positioned to serve on the Program Advisory Group. 

My company, Socially Responsible Ventures L3C, is a social enterprise, founded in 2010 with a three-part mission:  create affordable housing, promote energy conservation, and employ those negatively impacted by the criminal justice system.

To date, it has created seven units of affordable housing, five of them in Evanston; provided housing to about 65 low-income individuals; saved the CO2 equivalent of approximately 550,000 miles of driving; and employed around 50 disadvantaged men and women, most of whom have felony backgrounds.

Meanwhile, it’s lowered homeowner utility bills by a cumulative $35,000 or more, while injecting about $650,000 into the local economy.

I’m familiar with the work of EDC, whose mission and work overlap substantially with that of my company. I’ve had a three-hour meeting with its founder, Dick Co. I’m also friends with one of its founding investors.

I’ve worked with Elevate on an energy-efficiency initiative for St. Leonard’s Ministries, which is a non-profit agency in the City, where I sit on the Board, that’s about to embark on $5 million of building renovations.

I’m afraid I only know CNT by reputation.

Do please  let Bob know I’m interested. I suppose you could most easily just forward him this e-mail.

T. Manning

Founder

Socially Responsible Ventures L3C

www.srvl3c.org

847-553-6182

On Nov 3, 2022, at 9:34 AM, Joel Freeman <JFre...@grummanbutkus.com> wrote:



[Joel Freeman]