Who Is the Century Community Development Partnership?

August 12, 2008

The Century Community Development Partnership, Inc. (CCDP) has taken an active role in applying for a charter school in Century without the knowledge of a Blue Ribbon Committee formed by the Town of Century. Documents filed with the state of Florida indicate that no one on the CCDP board of directors is actually from Century.

Irvin Stallworth, the president of the CCDP, is chairman of the town’s Blue Ribbon Committee. The committee acknowledged that they never saw or approved a charter school application that was filed using the name of the Century Blue Ribbon Committee on Education.

According to the 2008 Not-for-Profit Corporation Annual Report filed with the Florida’ Secretary of State’s office, Stallworth is the president of the organization located at 700 East Hecker Road, Suite 104 in Century. That address is the old Century High School, which is leased for $1 per year by Stallworth’s New Life Baptist Church. Stallworth lists his address at 700 Hecker Road on the CCDP corporate papers. On the corporation reports for the New Life Baptist Church of Century, Inc., he lists his address as being on Pomeral Stree in Milton.

Other members listed by the secretary of state’s office as being on the board of directors of the Century Community Development Partnership are:

  • La-Vonne Haven, Creighton Road, Pensacola. Haven is executive director of the Gulf Wind Council of Camp Fire U.S.A
  • Claudia Curry, North 10th Avenue, Pensacola. Curry is a current member of the Escambia County School Board and a candidate for Escambia County School Superintendent.
  • Pat Crawford, University Parkway, Pensacola. Crawford is executive director of WUWF at the University of West Florida.
  • Hosea Pittman, Bellview Pines Place, Pensacola. Pittman works for the Florida Department of Corrections.
  • Sue Straughn, Mobile Highway, Pensacola. Straughn is an anchorwoman for WEAR-TV

According to the group’s website theccdp.org, Jack Moran is a director and treasurer of the group. The website says Moran is “a retired business management and development consultant living just west of Century.”

The CCDP was formed to “provide relief to the poor, the distressed and the underprivileged by engaging in or support activities to provide affordable housing, create jobs, eliminate blight, and provide needed services,” according to the group’s articles of incorporation adopted on September 4, 2006.

To see the Century Community Development Partnership, Inc. annual statement as file with the Florida Secretary of State, click here.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News