2007 Conference Sponsors

Citi’s commitment to corporate citizenship is an extension of our business. By providing access to credit through microfinance; lending and investing in low- and moderate-income communities; financing projects that support sustainability; and fostering financial education and career development, we strengthen the community and our industry.  We continue to focus in three areas:  building communities and entrepreneurs, financial education, and educating the next generation. 

CHAM, The Consortium for Housing and Asset Management, is a collaboration of the leaders in the fields of nonprofit affordable housing production and community development.  The Consortium is comprised of Enterprise Community Partners, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and NeighborWorks® America. CHAM’s mission is to better enable community-based organizations and others in the nonprofit housing industry to responsibly own and professionally manage affordable housing.

National Equity Fund, Inc. (NEF) is the leading national nonprofit syndicator of low- income housing tax credits with a $5.5 billion portfolio which includes 1,500 projects (80,000 units) that respond to a diversity of local housing concerns.  In both urban and rural communities, NEF invests in tax-credit equity in multifamily and single-family developments, as well as in supportive housing, public housing revitalization, assisted living and historic rehabs.  NEF also provides and/or facilitates predevelopment grants and loans, permanent and construction financing and various levels of technical assistance and asset management to support partners’ development efforts.  NEF manages New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) activities, an initiative of parent company LISC, which stimulates the investment of private capital in distressed communities.

Enterprise is a leading provider of the development capital and expertise it takes to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. For 25 years, Enterprise has pioneered neighborhood solutions through public-private partnerships with financial institutions, governments, community organizations and others that share our vision. Enterprise has raised and invested $8 billion in equity, grants and loans and is currently investing in communities at a rate of $1 billion a year. Visit Enterprise Community Partners or Enterprise Community Investment. to learn more about Enterprise’s efforts to build communities and opportunity, and to meet some of the half a million people we have helped.

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into health and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity – good place to work, do business and raise children.  LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide local community development organizations with loans, grant and equity investments, policy support and technical and management assistance.  Since 1980, LISC has marshaled over $7.8 billion from 3,100 investors, lenders and donors and helped 2,800 organizations build or rehabilitate more than 215,000 affordable homes and 30 million square feet of retail, community, and educational space-totaling $22.3 billion in development.  As a result, hundreds of thousands of people have better lives and brighter futures.

NeighborWorks®America works with resident driven nonprofit organizations, government and business leaders, and other national organizations to develop strong partnership that revitalize America’s communities and make housing affordable. The nonprofit organizations comprising the NeighborWorks® network are active in more than 2,300 communities.  As a powerful complement to the network's ongoing revitalization efforts and as a strategy for reaching out to the community development industry, the NeighborWorks® Training Institute and its educational programs and materials are central to the NeighborWorks® mission.