Group Hyperlink promotes Gunn to CEO | Southcltweekly

CHARLOTTE – Group Hyperlink has named Tameka Gunn its new president and CEO.

Gunn will take over Jan. 1 for Floyd Davis Jr., who’s retiring after two decades of carrier to the company.

Gunn recently serves as vp and leader working officer at Group Hyperlink. She joined the nonprofit in 2007 as a housing coordinator. Over the years she has labored in all of Group Hyperlink’s Homeless to Housing products and services. She was once additionally program director for the Volunteer Source of revenue Tax Help (VITA) program, which supplies unfastened tax preparation for lower-income folks and households.

“I’m delighted to suppose management of Group Hyperlink at a crucial time for inexpensive housing in our town and area,” Gunn stated. “I am hoping to construct upon the legacy of my mentor, Floyd Davis, with fortify from our super group of social staff and different body of workers.” 

Gunn’s targets come with increasing Group Hyperlink’s homeownership techniques, taking part much more with different social carrier nonprofits within the area, and elevating consciousness of Group Hyperlink in the entire counties it serves.

“It’s been our philosophy to advertise from inside of our personal body of workers every time imaginable, and the board’s resolution to advertise Tameka to president and CEO is consistent with the ones values,” Davis stated. “Tameka understands Group Hyperlink’s tradition, our programs and our main donor and contractual relationships.  She’s in an overly sturdy place to suppose the highest function.”

Gunn is a pace-setter on housing problems within the area. She is recently vice chair of the Coordinated Access Oversight Committee for Mecklenburg County. Coordinated Access connects people who find themselves homeless or prone to homelessness with housing sources.

Gunn came upon her lifestyles’s paintings early in her occupation. 

She taught scholars with finding out disabilities and emotional conduct problems early in her occupation  in Virginia and Washington D.C. 

In 2005, Gunn started operating for the Gastonia Housing Authority. She got here to appreciate how tough it’s for many disenfranchised folks to stick in housing by means of gaining significant get right of entry to to social products and services. Her motivation for this paintings is all about constructing circle of relatives and network. The lives that Group Hyperlink has modified proceed to encourage her pastime for carrier.

Group Hyperlink assists its consumers alongside a spectrum from homeless to homeownership, each and every step of the best way. Its Homeless to Housing program specializes in answers to get folks into secure, first rate housing.  Consumers come with veterans, folks with disabilities, very-low-income households, and moms escaping home violence with their kids. Group Hyperlink additionally gives a relocation carrier to a secure, supportive location for survivors of home violence and others in want.

The company’s Asset Construction program supplies categories and counseling products and services for people and households to transform – and keep – a house owner.  Further products and services come with unfastened tax preparation for lower-income folks and households; foreclosures prevention products and services; and a home-building program for veterans.