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Posted Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:51 pm By Frances Martinez Myers Should any municipality be allowed to prevent an endeavor from doing business in a city simply because some of its elected officials don’t like the product they sell? The answer to that question is NO. The survey was made available to the public through social and print media and was available for 30 days ending April 8, 2021.
The intent of the survey was to determine what was important to people who live and play in Crisfield when it comes to topics such as dining, retail stores, recreational activities, accommodations and services. The findings will be used to help support any revitalization and economic development efforts in Crisfield. “GCAC is sharing the information so that all those engaged in helping Crisfield thrive have the voice of the consumers and businesses in mind. GCAC fully intends to use this information in our strategic plans and when soliciting investors and developers to the area. Hearing from the people who live here and vacation here is important to both the consumers and the businesses who are already here or thinking about coming here”, says Frances Martinez Myers, GCAC’s board president.  To deliver this program GCAC is partnering with the Crisfield High School, the UMES 4-H Somerset Extension, and the Eastern Shore Entrepreneur Center to create the Youth Entrepreneur Program: STEM / Vocation, a summer learning initiative intended to introduce youth to vocational sciences. A second course centered around entrepreneurialism is to be coordinated with Salisbury’s Small Business Development Center and will premier later this fall.
The Greater Crisfield Action Coalition, Inc. (GCAC) is pleased to announce a FREE real estate and mortgage lending professionals virtual training program. This program will kick off a series of events focused on growing the homeownership rate among first time homebuyers in the Greater Crisfield Area and throughout the local region. Why is this so important? Sustainable homeownership is the easiest way to build wealth in this country. The US Census shows wealth inequality between homeowners and renters is striking with homeowners having a median net worth 80 times higher than a renter, which is likely to be higher given the current state of affairs due to COVID19. With the poverty level in the Greater Crisfield area approaching 40% we feel it is extremely important that we begin to educate consumers, who have the financial capability, regarding the important role homeownership plays in achieving long term financial stability. This begins, of course, with educating those professionals about the tools currently available to make homeownership possible for many in this region.
The Greater Crisfield Action Coalition, Inc. has announced changes to its Board of Directors and introduced the GCAC Business Plan 2021-2024.
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The Greater Crisfield Action Coalition, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Board of Directors to 13 members and the creation of an Advisor Network of professionals to assist the Board in their specific areas of expertise. The new Board was introduced on Monday, January 9th at its 2017 reorganizational meeting held at the Crisfield Public Library. Corporate officers, comprising the GCAC Executive Committee, were elected for 2017.
Latest news article entitled “GCAC and the CIty” from the December 7th County Times that tells where things stand with the City. Since then, according to City Manager, Rick Pollitt, Salisbury attorney Dirk Widdowson has contacted the members of the Crisfield Ethics Commission to set the first meeting. Mr. Pollitt and City solicitor Michael Sullivan anticipate that now that the process has begun, things should go quickly. They anticipate 3 meetings to reach a ruling on the questions raised, which Mr. Pollitt hopes could be done in two weeks. That lines us up with a fresh start in the New Year. Let us look forward to *new beginnings* and all that lies ahead.
December 7, 2016 – Where things stand with the City: county-times-gcac-and-the-city-december-7-2016 How is the Greater Crisfield Action Coalition (GCAC) like other CDCs in the country? First of all, like GCAC, “Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are nonprofit, community-based organizations focused on revitalizing the areas in which they are located, typically low-income, underserved neighborhoods that have experienced significant disinvestment,” according to community-wealth.org.
How many CDCs are there in the U.S. and who starts them? The National Congress for Community Economic Development has estimated there are at least 4,600. In fact, they operate in every state and region, including on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with 90% launched by individuals or small groups and run by a professional staff, as GCAC is proposing.
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