Beyond Housing exists because home matters. We began with actual houses and housing preservation, focusing on quality and stability to give people a place to start. But, there is more to a home than the house. Home is about the life that happens in and around the house as well as the life that fuels and draws out the best of the people within it. Beyond Housing is a community development organization that works in defined geographies like the Normandy School District in order to focus our resources where we can have the greatest impact. While most organizations focus on one, maybe two, impact areas within a community, we understand that, in order to have real impact, we must focus on all of the areas that make up a thriving community-housing, education, health, economic development and job readiness/access.
Beyond Housing exists because home matters. We began with actual houses and housing preservation, focusing on quality and stability to give people a place to start. But, there is more to a home than the house. Home is about the life that happens in and around the house as well as the life that fuels and draws out the best of the people within it. Beyond Housing is a community development organization that works in defined geographies like the Normandy School District in order to focus our resources where we can have the greatest impact. While most organizations focus on one, maybe two, impact areas within a community, we understand that, in order to have real impact, we must focus on all of the areas that make up a thriving community-housing, education, health, economic development and job readiness/access.
We are a backbone organization that brings together a multitude of resources. We brings together existing resources and new ones with the goal of creating holistic solutions that will resulting in lasting change. Community members are key to our process and they will drive the efforts when our services are no longer needed.
What are your strategies for making this happen?
Beyond Housing uses a process called Ask-Align-Act to engage the community on a variety of topics. Ask: We ask residents what they would like to see and experience in their community. Align: We align those desires with partners, resources, research and practice wisdom to ensure our actions are impactful and sustainable. Act: We develop sustainable and impactful action plans and act on them, while continuing the Ask – Align – Act process to ensure we are on track. We drive this work based on the idea of collective impact. Collective Impact occurs when organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success.
What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?
Beyond Housing has 4 offices and 80+ employees working towards our mission. From 2010-2013 we have invested over $2. 5 million in the rehab of homes, $3. 4 million in home repair grants to low-income families, built a 42 unit senior building, and brought the first grocery store in over 40 years and first ever bank to our target community. Our Community Land Trust has stewarded over $50 million in community reinvestment. We have a large network of partners working collectively with us, including 20+ municipalities, other non-profits, educational institutions, corporations, and donors. In 2015 we will complete construction on our second senior building, a mixed-use retail development, and will increase our capacity to serve by bringing many our our resources under one roof with a new headquarters in the center of our service area. This will provide the opportunity for program expansion, and create additional space for community partners to collaborate. .
How will your organization know if you are making progress?
All our our program staff complete logic models and monthly or quarterly goal sheets using the SMART goal framework including strategies, outputs, and outcomes to chart key indicators of success in their programs. All program staff meet quarterly in a learning community to report on progress and work collective to analyze data and share solutions. Partner non-profits also report data into our shared system to chart collective impact.
What have and haven't you accomplished so far?
We report on outputs and outcomes for over 28 programs so it is difficult to summarize the breadth of our data. SMART goal data can be made available to funders. A recent example of how outputs and outcomes changes the way were operate is in our Financial Education Department. Outcomes were indicating that people taking our home buyer education classes were not achieving the set goals (% grade in passing the exam). The program staff used this data to completely re-tool the way information was presented to align better with their measurement tools, increasing comprehension and raising test scores.
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This results data is current as of November 2017, when it was provided to us by GuideStar.
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Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. The top programs displayed will include the largest three programs, or those programs covering at least 60% of the charity's total expenses, whichever comes first.
Program Name
Amount Spent
% of Program Expenses
Community Development
$3,080,663
35.8%
Down Payment and Closing Cost Assistance
$2,707,616
31.4%
Low Income Housing Rental & Tenant Support
$2,485,224
28.8%
Ratings History Beyond Housing has received 2 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator.
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Charity Contact Info
Beyond Housing
6506 Wright Way
St. Louis,
MO 63121
tel: (314) 533-0600 fax: (314) 533-8745 EIN: 51-0179471
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