Ginger Rumph is the founding executive director of the Douglass Community Land Trust, a nonprofit membership organization centered around racial and economic equity that was created to help prevent displacement of current and future residents, create community-held assets, and build assets for individuals and families, while ensuring decision-making resides within the community. Douglass CLT secures the permanent affordability of residential and commercial spaces through community ownership of land and collective stewardship. During the first year incubating the Douglass CLT, Ginger also served as executive director of City First Homes, overseeing a portfolio of 200+ permanently affordable homes, including shared equity second mortgages and cooperatives. She led a forensic review of the data and systems, resulting in a database of reliable financial as well as programmatic data and a strong stewardship function. Throughout her career, Ginger has worked with a wide range of institutions and individuals to support affordable housing, workforce and business development, sustainable neighborhoods, engaged communities, and strong organizations. As vice president and COO of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development (CNHED), the association for community development in the District of Columbia, she engaged in all facets of the organization’s policy, advocacy, and capacity building activities, in addition to leading fundraising and communications and providing operational oversight and support. Prior to CNHED, she worked for the national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners in Columbia, MD, where she managed reporting and coordinated dynamic internal and external reporting for a $20 million public/private donor consortium; led an effort to design a new business intelligence system; and analyzed trends and shared best practices across national programs. In her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, she held leadership positions in two community development corporation coalitions which provided shared staffing services to create and preserve affordable housing, and facilitate workforce and business development; worked as an affordable housing real estate developer; and served in the Allegheny County Department of Economic Development, where she reviewed housing development finance applications and revitalized the previously-dormant vacant property program. A former Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, she tries to keep her Spanish up with reggaeton/dembow and merengue. Ginger holds a Master of Public Administration, Nonprofit Management and a Master of Social Work, Community Organizing, from the University of Pittsburgh.
