Main Office - Operations |
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900 E. Broad Street, Suite 1502 Phone: (804) 646-3108 Fax: 804-646-3031 Email: AskCommunityWealthBuilding |
Career Stations |
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Career Station at East End 701 N. 25th Station 2nd Floor Richmond, Virginia 23223
Career Station at Marshall Street Station 900 Marshall Street, Suite 160 Richmond, Virginia 23219
Career Station at Southside Community Center 6255 Old Warwick Road Richmond, Virginia 23225
Phone: (804) 646 - 6464
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The Office of Community Wealth Building
The mission of the Office of Community Wealth Building is to create policy and structural change resulting in a coherent ladder out of poverty for our lowest-income residents.
The Office of Community Wealth Building (OCWB) was established by Former Mayor Dwight C. Jones in the spring of 2014 and operated as a first-of-its-kind City office in the nation. In December 2015, City Council enacted Former Mayor Jones’s proposal to establish the Office of Community Wealth Building as a permanent department.
The office is the brainchild of the Mayor’s Anti-Poverty Commission and was later developed into the Maggie L. Walker Initiative for Expanding Opportunity and Fighting Poverty. The creation of the Office of Community Wealth Building was one of the central recommendations of the Commission.
Our vision is to build a coordinated approach that provides a consistent ladder out of poverty through access to quality employment and related supports and to create stronger neighborhood and educational opportunities to improve the life chances for all of Richmond’s children. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
This year, OCWB combined its implementation of OCWB Vision 2020 and pandemic response for community stability. As previously demonstrated in the Return on Investment and Impact Statements section, the OCWB and its partners have accomplished broader goals with significant community impacts. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Click on each of our programs and services to learn more.BLISS Career Stations Eviction Diversion Mayor's Youth Academy Richmond Living Wage Certification Program Social Enterprise
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Staff of the Office of Community Wealth Building:
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Caprichia Spellman, Director |
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Chaya Braxton Solomon Brown Shawanda Clark James Davis Bernadine Doggett Latoshia Edwards Kelvin Harris Wilma Harris Calvin Head
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Sherrilyn Hicks Quandra Holmes Karen Imes Darcel Jones Lerone Joseph Saundra Laws Keith Lewis Erika Love Pamela Newton
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Lori Payne Jenee Pearson Evette Roots Sandra Smith Suzette Street Derrick Wadley Harvey Williams Travis Woods
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Maggie L. Walker Citizens Advisory Board
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The Maggie L. Walker Initiative Citizens Advisory Board was created as an independent citizen body tasked with ongoing monitoring of the city’s progress in implementing the Initiative agenda and related policies. On December 8, 2014, City Council passed ordinance §2014-234-215 formally establishing the Maggie L. Walker Initiative Citizens Advisory Board. |
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Councilwoman Ellen Robertson, Co-Chair (non-voting) |
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Shelley Allmond Eric Brown Montrell Brown Avohom Carpenter Charles Hall Saundra Laws
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Aquanetta Scott Patrice Shelton Carmen Simon Caprichia Spellman (non-voting)
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The Legacy of Maggie Lena Walker
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