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St. HOPE

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Background[edit]

St. HOPE is a family of nonprofits serving the Oak Park neighborhood located in Sacramento, California. The organization was founded in 1989 by former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, an Oak Park native, whose vision was to revitalize the predominantly underserved community through high quality public education and economic development.

Today, St. HOPE is composed of 4 entities: St. HOPE Public Schools, St. HOPE Development Company, St. HOPE Academy, St. HOPE Endowment.

St. HOPE Public Schools[edit]

St. HOPE Public Schools (SHPS) is a public charter school system with a focus on students from low-income and minority backgrounds, providing them with college preparatory education. SHPS serves more than 1,500 students from TK-12th grade.

  • Sacramento Charter High School, serving grades 9-12 since 2003
  • Oak Park Preparatory Academy, serving grades 7-8 since 2012
  • PS7, serving grades TK-8, since 2003

Kevin Johnson embarked on a journey to transform the educational landscape in Oak Park with the creation of the St. HOPE Academy. It began in 1989 in a portable classroom at Sacramento High School as an after-school program, followed by the opening of PS7, a charter elementary school in 2003. After the development of PS7, then-Sacramento City Unified School District, Dr. Jim Sweeney had built a relationship with Kevin Johnson and approached him to propose St.HOPE’s potential sponsorship of new charter high schools in Sacramento to give the current struggling school system a much-needed lift. Johnson was aware of the ineffective education programs failing its students, and this was quite evident as Sacramento High School was fighting to keep its doors open to students in the Oak Park community. Dr. Sweeney’s desire for a more charter schools and Sacramento High School struggle to stay open both arose at an opportune time and allowed Johnson to undertake the transformation of Sacramento High School into a St. HOPE charter school.[1]

St. HOPE has marketed itself as a unique education model that better prepares its students for college admittance and completion. The Sacramento Charter High School had been recognized by the Sacramento Bee for, “leading the pack for most students taking the SAT,”[2] and has developed a partnership with College Track, whose stated aim is to empower students from underserved communities to graduate from college.[3]

St. HOPE Development Company[edit]

St. HOPE’s community investment arm has brought in several education nonprofits, restaurants, retail and mixed-use developments to Oak Park.[4]The St. HOPE Development Company was founded in 1994 and since then the organization has invested more than $43 million in economic and real estate development - this has helped support 20 businesses, created nearly 220 jobs, developed more than 210 new personal residences and apartment living spaces and generated more than $1 million in additional business taxes.

In 2003, St. HOPE renovated the old Woodruff hotel into a 23,000 sq. ft. mixed-use facility called the 40 Acres Cultural Center. The center includes the Old Soul Co., Bastille Barbers, Text to Ticket, Upper Rooms, Guild Theater, and one of only 59 black-owned bookstores in the country, Underground Books.[5] Lo-Lo's Chicken and Waffles is the latest tenant to sign the lease for the 40 Acres complex and will be opening its doors in June 2019. The St. HOPE 40 Acres Cultural Center celebrated its 15th anniversary on May 4, 2018.

Valley Vision, a community non-profit, is moving into a St. HOPE property in Summer 2018. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, Valley Vision’s CEO Bill Mueller state they chose the property because it “gives his group an opportunity to both contribute to its surroundings and learn from them.”[6]

Additional St. HOPE investments include the original St. HOPE building at 3400 Third Ave., the Oak Park Historic Office Building, the Huey P. Newton Historic Office Building, St. HOPE Business Complex, and the St. HOPE Education Complex. Tenants include California Chamber of Commerce, City Year, College Track. Nehemiah Community Foundation, Law Office of Fred Hiestand, Law Office of Kevin Hiestand, Munay Accounting and Tax, and Teach for America. Additional partners include La Venadita and Oakhaus Restaurant.

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision". 2007-02-09.
  2. "Sacramento Charter High leads the pack of most students taking the SAT". The Sacramento Bee. 2014-09-04. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. College Track (2018-06-22), College Track Sacramento on CBS 13 KOVR, June 17, 2018, retrieved 2018-08-07
  4. Kalb, Loretta (2017-02-21). "St. Hope company started by Kevin Johnson buys Oak Park building for $2.6 million". The Sacramento Bee. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  5. Young, Allen. "​Kevin Johnson's St. Hope nonprofit names its first CEO since...Kevin Johnson". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07. zero width space character in |title= at position 1 (help)
  6. van der Meer, Ben. "Valley Vision moving to North Oak Park". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.


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