Khan family, Jaguars Foundation make $1 million commitment to Jacksonville’s eastside
Jaguars launch partnership with LIFT JAX and Historic Eastside CDC
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(Ben Liebenberg/NFL) (2018 National Football League)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars Owner Shad Khan, through the Jaguars Foundation, personally committed $1 million to LIFT JAX and their work with the Historic Eastside Community Development Corporation (HECDC).
The donation aims to support the holistic revitalization of the Eastside neighborhood, also known as Out East, and continue work being done by members of the Jaguars organization to support a “culturally-rich and important neighborhood less than a mile from the team’s home at TIAA Bank Field,” according to a release.
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
The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association partnered with the Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association on Jan. 14 for a combined membership meeting.
Presenters of the live stream meeting were JWLA President Cyndy Trimmer and Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association President Onchantho Am.
Aurora Austriaco, president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, was the virtual guest speaker.
Trimmer, a partner with the Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow law firm, practices land use and zoning and government relations law.
Am is vice president of quality and chief legal officer for Impower Inc., a nonprofit mental health and child advocacy organization.
The topic for the discussion was gender and minority equity in the legal profession.