The MetroAlliance, Inc.

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Inclusive community investing

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Transforming Neighborhoods as counsel, advisor, investor, or principal 

of for-profit and nonprofit social ventures

Partners and Projects

Inclusive community investing

Inclusive community investingInclusive community investingInclusive community investing

Transforming Neighborhoods as counsel, advisor, investor, or principal 

of for-profit and nonprofit social ventures

Partners and Projects

Welcome

  • Launched in 2016, The MetroAlliance makes and facilitates investments in inclusive and diverse neighborhoods , as investor, counsel, consultant, lawyer, board member and principal, based on a theory of change described in the 2013 DePaul Journal for Social Justice  article, The Coming Integration

About the Principal

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President & CEO

Jay Readey is a lawyer, consultant and social entrepreneur who has worked for many years on issues of racial and socioeconomic equity. Jay founded and serves as President and 

CEO of The MetroAlliance, a social venture focused on neighborhood transformation. Through a  mix of for-profit strategies and nonprofit initiatives, The MetroAllian

Jay Readey is a lawyer, consultant and social entrepreneur who has worked for many years on issues of racial and socioeconomic equity. Jay founded and serves as President and 

CEO of The MetroAlliance, a social venture focused on neighborhood transformation. Through a  mix of for-profit strategies and nonprofit initiatives, The MetroAlliance focuses on strengthening  dynamic metropolitan communities, especially the South Side and South Suburbs of Chicago.

 In the course of his work with The MetroAlliance, Jay supports the creation and growth of  numerous small businesses and nonprofit organizations, along with housing and community  development strategies for community vitality. Jay was a 2012 Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago and a member of the inaugural 2015 class of Presidential Leadership Scholars through  the Bush and Clinton Presidential Libraries and Foundations. 

Jay practices law with Ginsberg Jacobs LLC, focused on complex community development finance, and teaches as an adjunct 

professor of housing and community development law at DePaul University School of Law 

Jay was a 1994 graduate of Yale College with majors in African-American Studies and American  Studies. He received a JD from Yale Law School and an MBA from the Yale School of  Management in 2004.

Projects and partners

Green Era Sustainability Campus

Southland Development Authority NFP

Southland Development Authority NFP

Closed July 2020 as Counsel , Advisor and Grantwriter

GreenEraChicago.com

Southland Development Authority NFP

Southland Development Authority NFP

Southland Development Authority NFP

Participated in Structuring, August 2019 Incorporation, and Launch through 2020

SouthlandDevelopment.org

NeighborScapes NFP

Outerbelt Alliance NFP

Outerbelt Alliance NFP

Transforming Neighborhoods through

 Innovation Houses

NeighborScapes.org

Outerbelt Alliance NFP

Outerbelt Alliance NFP

Outerbelt Alliance NFP

210 Miles Hiking and Biking Around Chicago

Outerbelt.org

SERVICES

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Startup and Advisory

From figuring out what kind of entity you want to form to serving as Interim Executive Director or CEO, Jay Readey and The MetroAlliance are typically involved in 15 startup enterprises at any given time. Jay Readey has served as interim Executive Director for Friends of Big Marsh (2016), NeighborScapes (2017) and Oak Park Regional Housing Center (2019). TMA has helped form many other ventures, including EQO37, Vikings United, Rock Stalls Lodge and  Bulldog Innovation Group.

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Legal Services

As counsel affiliated with  Ginsberg Jacobs LLC, Jay Readey has been involved in almost all of the large-scale transformative Community Development Projects on the South and West Sides of Chicago in the last 5 years, including the Pullman Community Center, XS Tennis Center, Easter Seals Academy Wellness and Recreation Center, Bronzeville Marianos, University of Chicago Medical Center Level 1 Trauma Center, and Green Era Sustainability Campus

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Investment and Development

Through NeighborScapes NFP, as MetroAlliance direct investments, or in partnerships or joint ventures, The MetroAlliance rehabs vacant and blighted buildings, works with Land Banks, and promotes transformation without displacement to help create stable, diverse communities of opportunity.

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