Every Friday morning in July, families walk through the doors of the Mary Pickford Theater for the Cathedral City’s Summer Movie Series. Local council members attend personally and help serve refreshments, like popcorn and water, to the kids, while parents greet one another and catch up before the show begins. The Free Kids Summer Movie Series is just one of the many accessible community programming events, classes, and services that Cathedral City puts on throughout the year…
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“We have decades of institutional experience built into this organization,” says Feliciano Vera. As the Vice President of Real Estate Finance, Vera is setting the course ahead for Community Housing Opportunities Corporation's growth as one of California's leading affordable housing developers. “My job is to make sure we're actually using that experience — drawing on it so we can move faster to get solutions into the communities we serve…”
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The second in our Leadership Perspective series features Heather Vaikona of Lift to Rise, a nonprofit organization working to advance affordable housing, fair wages, and economic mobility in the Coachella Valley and beyond. As President and CEO of the organization, Vaikona is one of the region’s most influential voices in affordable housing…
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At CHOC, we believe that strong communities are built by leaders who are willing to listen, adapt, and guide their organizations through moments of change. To highlight the work of our senior executives, we’re launching a new Leadership Perspectives series that showcases how our leaders impact the communities we build and cultivate. To start this series, CHOC is featuring Danny Labin of the Jewish Federation of the Desert, an organization with a long and meaningful legacy of community impact in the Coachella Valley…
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