Cincinnati Change

People

 * President/CEO - Hershel Daniels, Jr.


 * Fred Hargrove, Sr.

Mission
CINCINNATI CHANGE encourages economic stability in Hamilton County along with the development of a third frontier creative class information infrastructure that is connected to 20,000 homes through a fiber optic to the edge connection. This fiber optic network would connect to over 300 producers. Each would develop their business under a business process license from Lloyd Daniels Development Group, Incorporated through Cincinnati Change, its agent. Each enterprise will capitalize their operations based on the Small Company Offering Registration(SCOR) method of the North American Securities Administrators Association.

Through SCOR each Cincinnati Change Small Business Alliance Agent can offer a mixture of debt and equity of up to one million dollars that will net them no less than $720,000 after expenses with built-in community and operational support for one year. Each enterprise will be a sub-licensee of Cincinnati Change under this process.

Cincinnati Change will provide jobs through the acquisition and development of businesses, intellectual property, and real estate properties through its for-profit joint venture lead developer, which is to be called Queen City Development Group, LLC.

Purpose
CINCINNATI CHANGE will implement a licensed business process from GC4 and a patent license from MDi which will create citizens who are educated, employed, and empowered by developing the following objectives:

Schools
To create a school infrastructure in support of the 50,000 disenfranchised school students in Hamilton County needing this service by 2020 through an alliance with already established schools and public- and private-sector partners in Greater Cincinnati.

Businesses
To create a community business development program with the SBA, private sector, non-profit organizations, and government agencies to support over 1,000 small- and medium-sized businesses which will employ students who go to and/or graduate from our schools, with 300 new companies created to be multi-media content producers.

Homes
Cincinnati Change will create 20,000 homes in Greater Cincinnati with a focus on developing 20 markets with affordable homes for foreclosed home loans, troubled home loans, and low- and moderate-income households whose children will attend our schools, along with homes for those who work, build, and teach in them.

Jobs
Cincinnati Change will work with businesses, faith-based organizations, and non-profit organizations, along and the Superjobs Center to create over 9,000 jobs in tourism, education, health care, technology, hospitality, entertainment, real estate development, and construction through partnerships with businesses and non-profit organizations as part of our focus on workforce development in the African-American community, which is based on creating an education and Creative Class Third Frontier infrastructure, which serves as a primary job generator.

Background
CINCINNATI CHANGE understands that the Tri-State area is politically fragmented and segregated by race and class. Many poor Cincinnati residents have a high degree of desperation and hopelessness, along with the belief that things cannot change. Cincinnati Change was created to "change this perception" by taking action to change Cincinnati NOW on June 19, 2000 and took its first action at the 2000 Black Family Reunion.

In 2001, the founders of Cincinnati Change submitted a request to the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation(CEC) at the 2000 Black Family Reunion that they set out procedures to issue $100 million of Tax-exempt enterprise zone facility bonds. The request was updated in 2002 and again in 2003. In 2004, the CEC set the procedures to issue the bonds through the Cincinnati Hamilton County Port Authority.

In 2005, Cincinnati Change assembled a team to meet its organizational objectives through creation of a mutual fund to fund its mission to Change Cincinnati NOW. On June 19, 2005 Cincinnati Change received its charter from the State of Ohio and stands ready to change Cincinnati NOW.

Cincinnati Change is creating a limited-liability company called Queen City Development Group. This company will implement the Cincinnati Change vision as the lead developer.

On December 26th 2008 Cincinnati Change will release its plan for Peace In the 'Hood, Jobs in the 'Hood.