Attachment to IRS Form 1023

XXXXXXXXXXXX, Inc.
EIN: 22222222222
Part IV. Narrative Description of Your Activities

INTRODUCTION:

The Applicant will engage in an educational program of raising public awareness about the concentration of poverty and the downward spiral of social and economic conditions in may low income urban neighborhoods. The educational program would involve research into the causes of these condition and policies that can be created to address them. The educational program would include activities that would tend to increase the capacity of nonprofit corporations and their staff that are working to bring investment to programs into these distressed neighborhoods and to reverse the downward spiral.

ACTIVITIES: The specific educational activities that the Application would engage in are as follows:

1. Trainings: Periodically sponsor training events and workshops to raise awareness of the issue of declining and distressed neighborhoods and to provide practical information to practitioners that are engaged in teh implementation of revitalization strategies.

2. Publications: Publish and email newsletter on a regular that provide its members and others working to reverse the downward spiral of social and economic conditions in low income neighborhoods with information on changes in housing and community development policies, advocacy efforts, available funding, resources and training opportunities, and other issues affecting the field.

3. Web Site: Create and maintain a website that would share information on the causes and solutions to neighborhood decline and which would provide tools to practitioners to increase their capacity and effectiveness.

4. Clearinghouse - act as an information clearinghouse on community development and affordable housing issues and through its website, conferences, and training events provide a forum for practitioners to exchange information and network with others.

5. Networking: The Applicant through its trainings and other events would provide the opportunity for nonprofit developers and others engaged in the revitalization effort to together to discuss critical issues, and share experiences.

6. Forum: The Applicant, through workshops, trainings, and its website, will provide a forum for practitioners to brainstorm solutions that could lead to (1) more effective revitalization strategies (2) higher performing nonprofits organizations, and (3) higher performing governmental neighborhood revitalization programs.

7. Research and Policy Development. The Applicant, through its staff and unpaid volunteers, would research the causes the downward spiral of social and economic conditions in many low income community’s. for the purpose of identifying innovative new policies that could serve as part of the solution.

All of the above educational activities shall presents a full and fair exposition of the pertinent facts as to permit an individual or the public to form an independent opinion or conclusion.

CONCLUSION

The Applicant's activities are "educational" within the meaning of that term as defined in Section 1.501(c)(3)-1(d)(3) of the IRS Regulations because the activities either "involve instruction or training of the individual for the purpose of improving or developing his capabilities" or they involve "the instruction of the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community".