As we wrap up Thanksgiving and head into the 2019 holiday season, we wanted to re-release an episode about hope, empowerment, and giving back with Cedric Bobo, Co-Founder of Project Destined. Project Destined is a social impact nonprofit that trains inner-city youth and military families to be active partners in sourcing and financing real estate investments. Students then receive a percentage of the profits from those investments in the form of scholarship funds.
Cedric, who grew up in an underserved community in Memphis, became obsessed with business at a young age, inspired by his mother who worked for FedEx. He then received a degree in engineering, attended Harvard Business School, and spent the first part of his career in private equity, culminating in becoming an executive at Carlyle Group. Cedric has an entrepreneurial spirit, and he wanted to combine his two passions of investment and social impact, which drove him to create Project Destined in 2016. Today the program is in 7 cities and has high-profile support from real estate companies like Blackstone, Brookfield, Cortland and Walker & Dunlop and celebrities like A-Rod, Jennifer Lopez, and Mariano Rivera.
In addition to this episode with Cedric, Leading Voices has interviewed many leaders in the real estate business making a difference in our communities, including Jane Graf from Mercy Housing, Jonathan Rose from Jonathan Rose Companies, Daryl Carter from Avanath, Bobby Turner from Turner Impact Capital, Ron Terwilliger from Trammell Crow Residential, John Stewart from the John Stewart Companies, and others. Visit leadingvoicespodcast.com to hear these episodes and more.
Jesse Stein | Global Head of Real Estate at Airbnb
Hamid Moghadam | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Prologis
Sharon Wilson Géno | President of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)
Alice Carr | CEO of April Housing
Francis Najafi | Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pivotal Group
Doug Weill | Co-Founder and Co-Manager of Hodes Weill & Associates
Steve Kimmelman | Founder, CEO and Executive Chairman of Redwood Living
Gary Beasley | CEO and Co-Founder of Roofstock
Brad Inman | Founder of Inman
Michael Covarrubias, Chairman and Co-CEO of TMG Partners | Cyrus Sanandaji, CEO of Presidio Bay Ventures
Mark Zandi | Chief Economist at Moody’s Analytics
Daniel Radek | President of First Washington Realty
Deb Harmon, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Artemis | Anar Chudgar, Co-President of Artemis
Amanda Fajak, President of Walking the Talk | Larry Krema, Managing Director of ZRG
Rick Caruso | Founder and Executive Chairman of Caruso
Stephanie Biernbaum, Chief People Officer of Hines and Doug Holte, CEO of EXP by Hines
Scott Rechler | Chairman and CEO of RXR
Colin Connolly | President and CEO of Cousins Properties
Caroline Johns | Director of Sustainability at Pembroke
Brad Dockser | CEO and Co-Founder of GreenGen
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