E5 Enclave publishes its metrics because transparency is a form of sovereignty. The numbers below are live. The sources are cited. The work is ongoing.
FarmBlock —
Food Sovereignty in Liberty City
FarmBlock is E5 Enclave's urban cooperative agriculture program — community-owned farms on vacant land in Liberty City, producing food for the neighborhood and equity for the members who tend it.
- Phase I status: Land identification and stakeholder organizing — active
- Food Desert Index (FDI): 50-city dataset measuring compound food access deficit — distance to full-service grocery, fast food and liquor retail concentration, community food infrastructure absence (USDA ERS Food Access Research Atlas, 2023; CoStar, 2024)
- Liberty City ranking: Top decile nationally for compound food access deficit
- Cooperative model: Every participant accrues ownership equity — not wages alone. Surplus distributed by cooperative doctrine to members, operating fund, and next site acquisition.
- Workforce training: Agricultural literacy through advanced ag-tech and cooperative business governance — every graduate a cooperative owner in the making
Black Distress Index —
The Community's Own Data
The BDI is E5 Enclave's sovereign community dataset — eight pillars, 50 cities, every data point sourced, verified, and published under Creative Commons CC0. It is free. It is permanent. It belongs to the community it measures.
- Pillars: Health burden, wealth gap, educational attainment, housing instability, food access, civic participation, criminal justice contact, environmental exposure
- Coverage: 50 U.S. cities · census-tract resolution in key metros
- Liberty City health finding: Chronic disease burden 2.3× county average, concentrated in cardiovascular and metabolic conditions linked directly to food environment (USDA ERS, 2023)
- Liberty City wealth finding: Median household wealth $1,900 vs. Miami-Dade county median $38,400 — a 1:20 ratio (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates, 2022)
- License: CC0 — no permission required. Download, cite, redistribute, build on it.
McCartney Academy —
Black-Centered Education in Liberty City
The McCartney Academy is E5 Enclave's private K–12 educational initiative — Black-centered curriculum, rooted in Liberty City, named for Ralph McCartney, the Liberty City elder and Overtown community anchor who served on the Miami-Dade County Public School Board committee and whose legacy runs through the same corridor the Academy is built to serve.
- Location: Liberty City, Miami — the neighborhood the Academy is designed to fill
- Founding status: Community organizing and founding governance — active 2026
- Curriculum anchor: Lineage-centered learning — African and African American history, cooperative economics, STEM, and civic leadership integrated from kindergarten
- Pipeline context: E5 Enclave President Israel Lee Armstead attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School (Gifted track, 2001–2005) — the exact corridor and pipeline gap the Academy is designed to close
- Phase I target: Founding governance seated and curriculum framework published by Q4 2026
Block to the Boardroom —
Civic Leadership Pipeline
A four-rung cohort pipeline moving community members from neighborhood organizing to policy authorship to board service. The premise is structural: the people closest to the work belong in the rooms where the decisions are made — not as advisors, as decision-makers.
- Cohort size: 12–15 participants per cycle — intentional, not a constraint
- Rungs: I — Neighborhood organizing (12 wks) · II — Civic literacy (8 wks) · III — Policy authorship (16 wks) · IV — Board placement and elected office
- Eligibility: Any coalition member · No educational prerequisites · No fee
- Phase I: Founding cohort recruitment active 2026 — Liberty City and adjacent neighborhoods
- Phase II target: First board placements documented 2027