Oscar Alvarado, Century’s VP of Development, recently completed NeighborWorks’ Achieving Excellence in Community Development (AECD) Leadership Program. The highly selective, rigorous 18-month program was taught by faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Oscar was selected to participate along with a cohort of 45 professionals in the community development field based on working on a specific challenge. His performance challenge for Achieving Excellence was to develop the beginnings of a business model that will allow Century to export successful development, property management, resident services and community engagement practices, based on our core values, from a single controlled environment at CVC to all existing and future Century apartment communities.

The program required a tremendous investment of Oscar’s time and energy, and is yielding great results as Century pivots to becoming a more integrated permanent supportive housing and affordable housing provider. Congrats Oscar!