CORPORATION COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT TH E CO A LF I E LD D E V E LO P M E N T CO R P O R A TI O N 'S M I S S I O N I S TO B E A CO M M U N I TY B A S E D O R G A N I ZA TI O N TH A T P R O V I D E S Q U A LI TY A N D A F F O R D A B LE H O M E S , CR E A TE S Q U A LI TY J O B S , A N D G E N E R A TE S O P P O R TU N I TI E S F O R Q U A LI TY LI F E F O R LO W I N CO M E F A M I LI E S I N S O U TH E R N W E S T V I R G I N I A .
THE NEED Percentage of Population with a Bachelors Degree 30 27.4 20 12.6 Bachelors Degree 10 0 Wayne County United States Living below the POVERTY RATE: 48%
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FIRST THREE CREWS HIRED! While our program is validated through the hiring process… We learn many new lessons daily… While producing positive outcomes daily
Producing Quality Homes: Since 2010, Coalfield has developed 25 units of affordable housing, with 42 units in its current pipeline of near-future projects. Recognizing Coalfield’s empowering tenant-driven approach, its energy efficient construction methods, as well as the catalytic nature of Coalfields’ small-rural-town projects of historic buildings, Enterprise Community Partners, a national housing organization, names Coalfield Development a partner-the only such partner in WV.
Producing Quality Jobs: While started in Wayne County, Coalfield is now actively replicating QJI in neighboring Lincoln and Mingo Counties. Each year, the scale of success has increased more than 100%. In 2012, QJI had three participants. Today, it has nine. By August of this year, it will have 15. This is in addition to four crew chiefs, a Planning Coordinator, and three leadership- level staff members. In addition to completing the construction work associated with housing outcomes listed above, Coalfield has developed a niche in deconstruction of abandoned buildings: • Partially deconstructed 14 homes. • Fully deconstructed, from top-to-bottom, two homes. • Completed interior deconstruction of two closed factory buildings; fully gutted a 10,000 square foot abandoned office building using only one roll-off dumpster; prevented just over 50,000 square feet of material (tens of thousands of tons) from going into landfills. • Successfully created multiple earned income revenue streams funded by buyers and brokers of re-used materials throughout the east coast, including in New York City. • Earned nearly $65,000 in revenue from this network-set to more than double this figure in 2014. • New product development: each Friday, crew members take salvaged materials such as doors, banisters, and scrap wood and make furniture and unique items including coffee tables, shelves, lamps, and dog houses. These items are sold for earned revenue as part of this social enterprise that can be reinvested in further development.
The ultimate purpose of QJI is helping distressed young adults discover what a FULL LIFE is for them personally, and then giving them all the tools and opportunities needed for pursuing that FULL LIFE.
To accommodate the increasing supply of deconstructed materials flowing from its growing number of QJI crews, Coalfield is purchasing a 93,000 square foot warehouse in Huntington. This warehouse, located near the interstate for easier distribution of end-product, will service all three counties. In addition to warehousing raw material, this warehouse will have a workshop to permanently house Coalfield’s furniture making line-of-business.
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