Randy Skinner serves as coordinator of Homes for Our Neighbors campaign. Skinner was selected by the leadership team of the Justice Revival Dallas movement in the fall of 2009 to lead the adopted initiatives centered on schools, homelessness and housing. This movement represented the largest coalition of churches and nonprofits in fifty years with over 300 civic, religious, and community leaders engaged and over 1000 churches involved.
The Greater Dallas Justice Revival played a critical role in 2010 with community support for the placement of 700 chronic homeless into housing in the Oak Cliff and Lake Highlands community. The original placement of 50 formerly homeless at the Dallas Housing Authority site called Cliff Manor, was met with great community opposition. However, once local community neighborhoods were engaged, educated about the treatment program, and involved in the placement process, those citizens became advocates.
As a result of this engagement and the critical role the faith community played in the dialogue, the Homes for Our Neighbors campaign was developed. The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and Dallas Housing Authority asked that the Greater Dallas Justice Revival become an official faith and community partner for the Permanent Supportive Housing initiative.
Randy Skinner has also served as executive director of Strategic Justice Initiatives (SJI) since 2001. SJI is a non-profit 501c3 educational organization for the development of safe homes, safe schools, and safe communities. He also serves as executive director of FEED 3, a non profit committed to ending hunger and poverty.
During his time as director of Strategic Justice Initiatives, Inc., Skinner was credited with bringing a comprehensive overall strategy to the West Dallas area beginning in 2003 which has resulted in a transformation in the housing industry and helped generate millions of dollars to non profits in the city.
As director of the Greater Dallas Area Justice Revival, and consultant to non-profits, government agencies and churches in the arena of urban transformation, Skinner brings a fresh innovative perspective to community transformation for the city of Dallas. He desires to serves the local community by assisting local churches, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and businesses by giving them a proven Five Phase Transformation process that begins the process of re-claiming their community.
Skinner developed the Five Phase Transformation model as a result of serving as a national consultant to federal, state, and local law enforcement, social, non-profit, and governmental agencies for over the past thirty years. The model begins by helping you utilize research and analysis of your community; works with you personally to develop a campaign to cast new vision, form strategic partnerships, and then guides you on how to build a community rally to mobilize local citizens to reduce crime and poverty.
As an advocate for justice, Skinner has committed his life to bringing change and healing in the arena of child abuse, social justice, and communities plagued with poverty and crime. He is noted for his work for justice in Civil Rights cases in the African-American and Hispanic community, as well as for abused children. He has served as a consultant to local, state, and national political parties to assist in community transformation. He has also been involved in consultation with national leaders in Mexico, China, and South Korea.
He currently serves as Chairman of the City of Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission, appointed by Mayor Tom Leppert and re-nominated by Mayor Mike Rawlings. He represents the Mayor of Dallas office on hunger in a partnership with Texas Hunger Initiatives and one of five citizens from Dallas selected to present the 30th Congressional District Congressional Black Scholarship Program.
Skinner also serves as a advisor to YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in Tyler, Texas, one of the largest mission sending agencies in the United States.
Skinner is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas (B.A.) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div) in Ft. Worth Texas.
Skinner currently lives in West Dallas working as a tireless advocate for those suffering. His home also serves as a spiritual outreach for the community of sixty homes in his neighborhood.
For more information on Randy Skinner and his work in community transformation, see: www.dallasjusticerevival.com or www.citytransformation.org