By Fern Gillespie
When Jamal Clayton Robinson was appointed Executive Director of community development nonprofit IMPACCT Brooklyn, it was due to the impact that he had made in his career spanning community development and real estate as a JPMorgan Chase executive to his leadership role as a captain at West Point.
For 62 years, IMPACCT Brooklyn has served as a community development nonprofit with a mission to eradicate housing insecurity. Its mission is to strengthen neighborhoods through racial justice, housing, community development and economic opportunity. IMPACCT Brooklyn advocates for Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Prospect Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Robinson’s interest in affordable housing and community development began while working at JPMorgan Chase in Community Development Banking and
Commercial Real Estate Development. Pratt Area Community Council was a client. “I learned the affordable housing and community development spaces when I worked on an affordable housing deal for the Pratt Area Community Council,” Robinson told Our Time Press.
Last September, he saw the impact of that deal as Executive Director of IMPACCT. “I did the Ribbon cutting for 778 Myrtle,” he said. “It was the very deal that I was working on at JPMorgan Chase for Pratt Area Community Council. It was a complete full circle moment.”
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