Profile: Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc

Toni Watts
Chief Executive Officer of CDC of Tampa

Welcome to Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa, Inc
 
Building lives. Building Communities

Our mission...
To revitalize communities by alleviating poverty and physical deterioration thereby creating economically viable, safe and attractive neighborhoods.
 
Our goals...
The goal of the Nehemiah Project is to create jobs, provide job training, promote entrepreneurship, and revitalize our neighborhood. However, it is also about more---not growth per se, but Development---to change the way people who live in poor communities perceive their opportunities as well as how the outside world responds to them. Successful community development sends the message that a community has vitality and that it is a good place in which to live and invest. The dollars invested in the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa (CDC) will enable us to achieve this goal for our community and become a model for other urban communities nationwide. 
 
Our vision...
To be a recognized community economic development leader of efforts to create, influence and enact policies, programs, and services that result in the creation of jobs, build community pride, promote entrepreneurship, develop youth leadership, revitalize commercial areas and build affordable housing.