Opinion: Why SC needs Community Development Tax Credit

Greenville News

The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the health, social fabric and economies of South Carolina communities. The virus is having a disproportionate effect on communities of color due to the widening racial gap in health and economic disparities.

Community Development organizations across South Carolina for decades have focused on improving quality of life and creating economic opportunity in low-income communities.

These organizations are on the front lines and are crucial to not only providing immediate emergency services, but also relief and recovery efforts addressing the coronavirus pandemic. 

Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities, Charleston LDC

Post & Courier

Charleston-area groups to offer loans for minority-owned businesses amid coronavirus.

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Moving beyond normality of racism in America

Index-Journal

The fourth installment of our COVID-19 Creates a Double Crisis for People of Color Series includes insights to creating a racially equitable “new normal.”
“This is the reality of normal in the United States of America, a place where one should find Liberty and Justice for All.”

COVID-19 Creates a Double Crisis for People of Color Series - Installment 1: Race and Health

By Bernie Mazyck, President & CEO and the Staff of SCACED“

In searching for reasons why African Americans, people of color and low-income communities are being hit the hardest by this virus, the answer can be briefly put: Social Determinants of Health.”

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Better housing can help to reduce COVID-19 deaths among African Americans in SC

The State

The third installment of our COVID-19 Creates a Double Crisis for People of Color Series.
“The reality is that the African American children of yesterday who contracted asthma because of poor quality housing are the African American adults who are dying today from COVID-19.”

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How SC could help minority businesses

The Greenville News

The second installment of our COVID-19 Creates a Double Crisis for People of Color Series.
“The first deployment of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) showed that multimillion-dollar corporations with strong balance sheets were able to secure tens of millions of dollars intended for very small “momand-pop” type businesses.”

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In “We need to rethink some things” to emerge from this pandemic stronger

Charleston City Paper

SCACED President & CEO Bernie Mazyck was quoted in an article covering the racial disparities in COVID-19 victims and treatment, and how the pandemic is affecting minorities and low-income communities the most.
"It should give everyone, up and down the social strata, give all of us a moment to pause and look at what we currently have, to reflect upon it and say, 'Something's wrong here, we need to rethink some things.'“

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In USA Lab Class, MIT Students Help Strengthen American Communities

Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan School of Management

SCACED Program Associate Amber Stewart is quoted in an article published in the blog by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management, highlighting the types of economic and societal challenges students tackle in the MIT Sloan Action Learning class “USA Lab: Bridging the American Divides.”

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