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Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise helps build affordable housing for low-income Americans by providing financing and expertise to community and housing developers. Every 80 minutes, someone moves into a house we helped create. Enterprise Community Partners is a national nonprofit that provides loans, grants and information resources. Our for-profit subsidiary, Enterprise Community Investment, offers tax credit financing and asset management services. Pictured at left: The courtyard at Broadway Crossing, Seattle, a Green Communities project.
Photo by: Stefanie Felix.

News and Events

Housing organizations launch Columbus homebuyer’s website offering affordable ownership opportunities. (PDF, 54K)

Edward Norton testified before Congress on energy independence and global warming. (PDF, 26K) SF Chronicle news coverage.

NY Highlights May newsletter on upcoming events in NYC.

Enterprise co-founder recognized by Leadership Conference on Civil Rights for selfless, devoted service for equality. (PDF, 26K)

Call for entries: National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials announces M. Justin Herman Memorial award.

NYC and Enterprise announced preservation of 1,000 units of affordable housing. (PDF, 72K)

Call for entries: Urban Land Institute's Terwiliger Center announces Models of Excellence in Workforce Housing awards.

Affordable Housing Finance on how green affordable housing saves money. (PDF, 5 MB)

Affordable Housing Finance article on more money for green properties. (PDF, 300K)

Enterprise Joins Rep. Perlmutter for forum
highlighting New G.R.E.E.N. Act.

Apply for the Excellence in Urban Journalism Award recognizing professional journalists.

Apply for the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing.

Archive of news releases.

Bart Harvey

The Bart Harvey Enterprise Fellowship
This new Fellowship not only honors Bart Harvey's leadership and commitment to public service, but aims to spark the spirit and mission of Enterprise in young community development and affordable housing professionals. The Bart Harvey Enterprise Fellowship exposes these individuals to the work of Enterprise with the objective of inspiring the kind of personal transformation that Harvey experienced. The application and guidlines are now available for the 2008-2010 fellowship. Apply for an Enterprise Fellowship.

Noteworthy

Launching an Energy Efficient Future
Enterprise's new publication, Bringing Home the Benefits of Energy Efficiency to Low-Income Households (PDF, 5MB), makes the case for a national commitment to increase the energy efficiency in affordable housing, especially homes for low-income people. A modest federal investment in such a commitment would deliver significant environmental and economic benefits. It also would spur progress in the fight against climate change by unleashing innovation among a wide range of private, public and community-
based organizations.

Edward Norton Testifies on Capitol Hill
Actor, director and Partners Trustee Edward Norton urged Congress to take a leadership role in making green and affordable one and the same. Testifying on Capitol Hill on May 14, Norton encouraged lawmakers to put opportunities for low-income people at the forefront of the nation's response to the climate-change crisis. "The legacy of my generation is going to hinge on how we respond to these revelations that we're not living sustainably, and that we're altering the environment," he said. Read more.

© 2008, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Enterprise Community Partners provides financing for affordable housing and community development through its subsidiary, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. and its supporting organization, Enterprise Community Loan Fund.
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