11/19/2025
💌 On November 20, 1000+ nonprofits are coming together for Give Miami Day and we need your support to keep powerful, community-rooted projects like this moving forward. Your generosity fuels our momentum to protect the culture, history, and neighborhoods that make Miami Miami.
A native of Overtown, Dr. Evalina Bestman is a trailblazer in mental health and community care - founding professor at FIU, founding board member of the Chapman Partnership and founder of the New Horizons Community Mental Health Center.
🏡 Now, through a partnership with the 3C Initiative and Miami Homes For All, Dr. Bestman is realizing a lifelong dream: transforming properties she owns in Overtown into affordable housing for the very community that raised her. She is a true pioneer and institution in this city - we’re absolutely honored to support her in this process.
Through the 3C Initiative (Connecting Capital & Community), we work with small-scale, community-rooted developers to keep families housed, block by block - by connecting mission-driven capital with legacy owners who want to preserve affordability in their neighborhoods. 🔑 Powered by JPMorganChase and the Center for Community Investment, these projects demonstrate that affordable housing can grow from within neighborhoods to maximize their positive impact.
We’re partnering with 10 emerging developers and property owners to support 15 small-scale affordable housing developments, which will total more than 150 new or preserved affordable apartment homes. Our support includes technical assistance, predevelopment grants, connections with neighborhood organizations, and systems change advocacy to ensure these and other deals like them are successfully completed.
🌴 We’re focusing on rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like Overtown, Little Haiti, Allapattah, Liberty City, Brownsville, and North Miami to prevent mass displacement of lower-income residents. We’re also working with local owners – individuals and nonprofits - to help build wealth in the community.
This Give Miami Day, help us keep this momentum alive. Donate on November 20 to Miami Homes For All!