Sponsors

Crawford Educational Complex, Multimedia and Visual Arts School
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Crawford Educational Complex is a Gates funded small schools high school - with four small, autonomous high schools with their own career theme. The Multimedia and Visual Arts School uses multi-media and cross-curricular project-based curriculum to provide its 400 students with: 

• Heightened self confidence and the desire to be a life-long learner.
  
• Cutting edge skills in computer-based technology.
  
• The skills necessary for post-secondary educational opportunities and the modern workforce.
  
• The skill sets needed for life long learning.
  
• An understanding of their responsibility and contribution to the local and global community.

El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association
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The El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association was incorporated in 1988 for purposes of administering the Boulevard Central Business Improvement District. It assumed oversight of the Boulevard Gateway District in 1997. The principal mission of the Association is to improve physical and economic conditions along the 60 blocks of the Boulevard between Park Boulevard and 54th Street.

Traversing the communities of University Heights, North Park, Normal Heights, Kensington, Talmadge and City Heights, the Boulevard has experienced 20 years of progress beginning with the installation of the Boulevard sign in 1989. Since that time utility wires have been undergrounded, ornamental streetlights installed, the medians landscaped, and street trees planted.

The 900 member businesses reflect the diversity of the population, and provide a wide range of goods and services. 90 restaurants of a multitude of ethnicities provide a variety of dining experiences. 80 auto-related businesses, 70 business service establishments and 60 medical facilities along with a variety of home furnishing and apparel stores serve the adjacent resident population and attract destination shoppers as well.

San Diego LISC
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San Diego LISC is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity — good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide to local community organizations.

Since 1991, San Diego LISC has provided more than $165 million in equity, grant, and loan investments for neighborhood revitalization efforts throughout the County; leveraged more than $500 million of additional capital for neighborhoods and projects; and supported the development of over 5,000 affordable homes and more than 650,000 square feet of commercial and community facility space.  In 2007, San Diego LISC launched the Neighborhood First initiative in the Colina Park community of San Diego. 

Neighborhoods First
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Neighborhoods First is a comprehensive approach to neighborhood revitalization that uses an innovative planning process - quality of life planning - as a central tool for improving San Diego neighborhoods. It is guided by three principles:

1. Comprehensiveness - With Neighborhoods First, the social, economic and civic fabric of a neighborhood is planned and developed hand-in-hand with physical development. It addresses neighborhood challenges and opportunities in a strategic, coordinated, and comprehensive fashion
2. Community Driven - Neighborhoods First adheres to an abiding conviction that neighborhood residents are experts on the challenges facing their communities. Moreover, these same residents, when provided an opportunity and the appropriate resources, are best-positioned to chart the course for a better future.
3. Action Oriented - Neighborhoods First maintains a keen eye toward implementation - identifying tangible projects that are guided by a collaborative vision, achievable in the near term, and accountable to a responsible party committed to seeing it through. Accountability is coupled with access to resources like early action grants, technical assistance and loan financing to inspire action.
   

San Diego LISC launched Neighborhoods First as a pilot initiative in two San Diego neighborhoods in 2007 - Logan Heights/Memorial, and Colina Park.