2017

Get the Lead Out

(GLO)

Campaign

To end childhood lead poisoning in Trenton by 2025,

Isles must raise $900k over the next 3 years.

Isles’ Expertise

Marty Johnson

Founder and

President, Isles

• Founding director

of: Building One NJ,

NJ Community

Capital, Housing &

Community

Development

Network of NJ, and

Success Measures

Project.

• Graduate, former

trustee and Executive

Committee member

of Princeton

University.

• Visiting James Wei

Teaching Fellow at

Princeton University.

• Trustee of the

Capital Health

System and National

Housing Institute.

John Hart

Chief Operating Officer

• Previously Chief of

Staff for NJ Dept. of

Education, Deputy Chief

of Staff for the Dept. of

Human Services and

Chief of Operations for

the Sandy Recovery

program.

• Worked as Executive

for Virtua Health

System and Associate

Director of the Senator

Walter Rand Policy

Institute, Rutgers U.

• Trustee for the NJ

State Advisory

Committee for the US

Commission on Civil

Rights, the Boys and

Girls Club of Camden

County, and others.

Michele Minter

Board Chair

• Vice Provost for

Institutional Equity &

Diversity - Princeton U.

• Previously VP for

Development at the

College Board and

director of

development

/campaign director at

Princeton.

• Associate Faculty

Member of the

Women’s Philanthropy

Institute at Indiana

University’s Center on

Philanthropy and a

steering committee

member of the Black

Women Donors’ Action

Group of the Women’s

Funding Network.

Peter Rose

Managing Director

• Founder and former

Executive Director of

Washington Community

Alliance for Self-Help

(now Ventures), an

award-winning,

microbusiness

development

organization in Seattle.

• Over 10 years of

experience managing

wealth creation and

environmental health

services at Isles.

• Manages Isles’ Center

for Energy and

Environmental Training

Elyse Pivnick

Director of

Environmental Health

• Over 25 years of

experience at Isles in

managing

environmental health

and community

development projects.

• Specializes in lead

and community health

issues

• Has testified on behalf

of legislative changes to

support lead safety and

community health.

• Trustee of the National

Center for Healthy

Housing.

• Certified trainer for

Community Health

Worker course.

The Challenge

Of more than 11,000 students in Trenton Public School District, 51% have enough lead in their blood to impact developmental and educational outcomes.

Childhood Threat, Long-term Consequences

Lead poisoning causes:

Resulting in: Lower IQ and academic performance

Decreased ability to pay attention Reduced impulse control

Between $17 and $50 could be saved in taxes for each $1 spent on lead safe

repairs.

Other costs of lead poisoning include health care, criminal justice, and

home abandonment.

The Most Dangerous Place: Homes

In NJ, the primary source of lead exposure (up to

80%!) is contaminated dust from lead-based paint in

homes and buildings built before 1978.

Isles’ Integrated Approach

Lead Safe Trenton

2025

Public Policy &

Communications

Lead & Healthy Homes

Services

Lead Training & Business Support

Community Organizing &

Marketing

The Impact

Individual Improve:

Health

Education

Career

Behavioral

Self-sufficiency

Family Stabilize home

Reduce energy cost

Increase civic participation

Community Increase neighborhood value

Reduce property abandonment

Reduce crime

Beyond Restore environment

Reduce tax burdens

Reduce disparities

Milestones

Flint Water Crisis 2015

Isles trains 100th contractor in lead abatement 2018

Press Conference to re-fund NJ Lead Hazard Fund 2016

Isles Receives Funding for Lead

Hazard Control from NJDCA and City of

Trenton (HUD) 2016

Isles expands advocacy staff to press lead and healthy homes agenda 2017

NJ commits $10 million to Lead Hazard Rehab. 2016

Isles completes work on 500th lead safe rehab project 2019

City of Trenton launches project to

test all Trenton homes for lead. 2020

Funds committed to make all Trenton homes lead safe 2021