Our Story
We develop and operate sustainable, life-enhancing affordable housing with a focus on long-term community engagement. Our mission is to enhance quality of life through community development centered around affordable housing. We achieve this through thoughtful planning, vibrant design, innovative collaborations and deep commitment to place and people.
As of August 2019, CDP became a Certified B Corporation (“B-Corp”), a reflection of our dedication to our mission and priority of impact over profits. Our work is driven by who we are and guided by the following values.
Six core values that guide our work.
Commitment
Commitment
When we say we’re going to do something, we do it. Our word is sacred and we’re accountable to ourselves and to our relationships.
Sustainability
Sustainability
We believe in being stewards of the environment, continually searching for and implementing low-impact or regenerative solutions.
Community
Community
Our vision of community is inclusive and all stakeholders are invited to the conversation.
Equity
Equity
In a world with finite and unequally distributed resources, we strive to ensure equal and equitable access to the essentials of a high quality of life.
Innovation
Innovation
We don’t believe the status quo is sufficient so we’re continually pushing the limits in our pursuit of excellence.
Culture
Culture
We support the arts, artisans, craftspeople, and farmers who celebrate localism and work to integrate this culture into our communities.
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion.
In our relatively short history, Community Development Partners has succeeded in bringing its mission-based orientation to multiple developments in a number of West Coast communities. Our continued success with comparable developments in four Western states has brought us to a more complete understanding of the societal costs of any diminution in our country’s social equity and the results of failing to embrace the diversity that characterizes our communities and nation. These understandings have led us to formalize polices that we hope will help in overcoming these inequities and the resultant problems that they produce.
We will, therefore, dedicate our best efforts to increasing both social equity and diversity in all aspects of our work.
Although our company directly employs a limited number of professional staff, we are committed to pursuing a diverse workforce, to welcoming and including people with different identities to our team. Further, we aspire to engage those with which we do business in the pursuit of increasing our social equity performance. Currently over 40% of our workforce is comprised of individuals who self-identify as members of a protected class and over 40% of our Executive Team is comprised of such members. Our commitment is to maintain and, over time, to increase these percentages.
We recognize that maximizing improvements in the social equity impact of our business will occur when we both pay close attention to our own actions and ask those in our supply chain to do likewise. Therefore we have instituted a policy to review all our professional contracts and our purchases with an equity lens and, with solid data to guide us, search for ways to make improvements in our performance. Equally important, we are asking all those with whom we do business for information on their social equity performance. With this action we hope to persuade all those with whom we have relationships to evaluate ways in which their practices can contribute to opportunities for those stymied by disadvantage to be more active participants in the wealth of our society.
