b'KEY STRATEGIESALL OF MEDAS PROGRAMS CONTRIBUTE THEIRnSHARING MEDA ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES ON A NATIONAL SCALEEXPERTISE TO THESE NATIONWIDE RESOURCE- Our Sharing the Model work supports fellow nonprofit organizations and community development agencies SHARING AND CAPACITY-BUILDING EFFORTS. across the United States with best practices, core knowledge and key skill sets from our own programsand services.SHARING THE MODEL: KEY EXAMPLES nCROSS-COMMUNITY CAPACITY-BUILDING AND WEALTH-BUILDINGMEDA supports organizations in other underserved Asset-Building Programs coaches have providedcommunities as part of our broader commitment to share one-on-one technical assistance to nonprofitsresources and know-how for solidarity and collective gain.via the Equitable Neighborhood DevelopmentnSTRONG REFERRAL NETWORKS AND COALITION-BUILDING AT LOCAL, program, hosted by the National Association ofSTATE AND NATIONAL LEVELSLatino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB).Our long-term participation in nationwide organizational Community Real Estate has entered into jointnetworks and coalitions underpins our work to share venture property acquisitions with, and providedexperiences, ideas and teachings with our peer organizations.technical assistance to, other San Francisco community development agencies seeking to implement affordable-housing preservation programs in their own neighborhoods.Mission Promise Neighborhood staff haveCOVID-19 AND MEDAS RESPONSEshared MPNs service model with organizationalThe tragedies of COVID-19 in the Mission and Sanpartners nationwide, with emphasis on earlyFrancisco were far from unique. Across the country, Latino learning work, linkages to affordable housingcommunities have disproportionately suffered the and civic engagement. consequences of the pandemic, from financial crisis to mass evictions to heightened rates of infection. Fellow Fondo Adelante has worked with organizationscommunity-based organizations have scrambled to meet the in California and Alabama to establish their ownurgent needs of their residents, while facing their own certified CDFI programs. Fondo also supportschallenges of financial sustainability. These systemic aspiring affordable-housing developers workingchallenges will continue to hinder families and nonprofits with Community Real Estate, lending for acquisitionalike long after COVID-19 subsides.of small, multifamily housing properties. In this context, MEDAs skill-sharing and capacity-building efforts became an important way to engage with fellow The Policy team has consulted community agenciesorganizations engaged in pandemic-related services. With nationwide on coalition-building strategies andso many nonprofits newly versed in digital-meeting software equitable policymaking for land use, zoning, smalland other remote platforms, MEDA is better equipped to business development and cultural placekeepingexpand our national skill-sharing efforts while staying rooted through neighborhood preservation. in the Bay Area. The challenges of the pandemic have thus widened the space for MEDA to advance our capacity-Evaluation staff have advised nonprofits acrossbuilding work with kindred organizations across the country. the U.S. on evaluation principles and databaseIn the face of a recession, it will be essential for nonprofits to design, including a webinar series for agenciesshare strategies and collaborate on economic recovery efforts.based in communities of color.STRATEGIC PLAN 2021-2427'