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Ending poverty in the city.
Over the next three years, they founded the nonprofit LIFT JAX, hired a president and picked a place to start the historic Eastside and began ongoing conversations with residents. This year they are seeking funding and partnerships to get the work underway, using a model called Purpose Built Communities, which strengthens neighborhoods through mixed-income housing, cradle to grave education, community wellness and financial vitality for residents. Our goals are really the community’s goals, said LIFT JAX board chairman Darnell Smith, market president, North Florida Region for Florida Blue. Our job is to listen to what residents and community leaders tell us and then identify the partnerships and resources required to bring those desires to life. … We will never do work to a community, we will always do work with a community and the people who call that community home, have a business there or have a connection and desire to s
When Mincy Pollock made a pitch to other African-American business owners about joining him as a JAX Chamber member, the response typically was a dismissive why bother shrug.
As much as Pollock sees the chamber as a valuable way for growing his two small businesses Florida Care Insurance and Pollock Group he could understand the skepticism. When I go to the (chamber) meetings, a lot of times, as my grandma would say, I m a fly in a glass of milk, he said. I would go and I would talk to other business owners about Hey, you really should be connected with the chamber, and they have said in the past, It doesn t look like we fit. I don t know if they want us.
Year of protest carries over to business world in confronting racial gaps
The past few months have seen an increase in companies teaming up with schools, businesses and organizations to form initiatives that help communities of color.
Credit: Florida Times-Union Published: 11:38 AM EST December 20, 2020 Updated: 11:38 AM EST December 20, 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. When Mincy Pollock made a pitch to other African-American business owners about joining him as a JAX Chamber member, the response typically was a dismissive why bother shrug.
As much as Pollock sees the chamber as a valuable way for growing his two small businesses Florida Care Insurance and Pollock Group he could understand the skepticism.