Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Announces $6 Million in Grants
October 05 2015 - 11:35AM
Business Wire
Priority Markets Program awards 69 grants to
nonprofits engaged in neighborhood revitalization
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) today announced $6 million
in neighborhood revitalization donations with 69 grants to
nonprofits.
“Wells Fargo is pleased to support these nonprofits that are
leading efforts to revitalize and position neighborhoods for
long-term success,” said Martin Sundquist, executive director of
the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation. “The Priority Markets Program
is one of thousands of ways we work together with nonprofits to
support local communities.”
The 2015 Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Priority Markets Program
provides grants for neighborhood stabilization projects to
stimulate growth, stability and investment in distressed areas.
Since 2009, the program has provided grants totaling more than $36
million for nonprofits in 125 U.S. communities.
The grant recipients of the 2015 Priority Markets Program
include:
- Greater Albuquerque Habitat for
Humanity (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Habitat for Humanity Lehigh Valley
(Allentown, Pa.)
- Rural Alaska Community Action Program,
Inc. (Anchorage, Alaska)
- AHC Inc. (Arlington, Va.)
- Mountain Housing Opportunities
(Asheville, N.C.)
- Frameworks Community Development
Corporation (Austin, Texas)
- Austin Habitat for Humanity (Austin,
Texas)
- San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity
(Azusa, Calif.)
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake
(Baltimore)
- NeighborWorks Montana (Billings,
Mo.)
- NeighborWorks Boise (Boise, Idaho)
- Crittenton Women’s Union (Boston)
- Friends of Boston’s Homeless
(Boston)
- Habitat for Humanity of Seminole County
and Greater Apopka (Casselberry, Fla.)
- Urban Ministry Center (Charlotte,
N.C.)
- Builders of Hope Community Development
Corporation (Dallas)
- Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities
(Davenport, Iowa)
- Habitat for Humanity of South Palm
Beach County (Delray Beach, Fla.)
- Brothers Redevelopment, Inc.
(Denver)
- Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver
(Denver)
- Reinvestment Partners (Durham,
N.C.)
- Fort Wayne Habitat for Humanity (Fort
Wayne, Ind.)
- Habitat for Humanity Fresno (Fresno,
Calif.)
- Homes of Hope (Greenville, S.C.)
- Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi
Gulf Coast (Gulfport, Miss.)
- New Hope Housing, Inc. (Houston)
- Avenue Community Development
Corporation (Houston)
- Habitat for Humanity Jacksonville
(Jacksonville, Fla.)
- Accessible Space, Inc. (Las Vegas)
- Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon
Valley (Martinez, Calif.)
- Access, Inc. (Medford, Ore.)
- A New Leaf (Mesa, Ariz.)
- Saint John Community Development
Corporation (Miami)
- Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc.
(Miami)
- Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity
(Milwaukee)
- Housing Development Corporation of
Southwest Florida (Naples, Fla.)
- Habitat for Humanity of Collier County
(Naples, Fla.)
- New Level Community Development
Corporation (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Nashville (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Habitat for Humanity of Omaha (Omaha,
Neb.)
- Paterson Habitat for Humanity
(Paterson, N.J.)
- Philadelphia Chinatown Development
Corporation (Philadelphia)
- FINANTA (Philadelphia)
- Native American Youth and Family Center
(Portland, Ore.)
- Hacienda Community Development
Corporation (Portland, Ore.)
- HomeStrong USA/ Hometown Community
Development Corporation (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.)
- National Community Renaissance (Rancho
Cucamonga, Calif.)
- Northern Nevada Community Housing
Resource Board (Reno, Nev.)
- Southside Community Development and
Housing Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
- Virginia Supportive Housing (Richmond,
Va. and Virginia Beach, Va.)
- Habitat for Humanity Riverside
(Riverside, Calif.)
- Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund
(Sacramento, Calif.)
- Mercy Housing, Inc. (Sacramento,
Calif.)
- Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity
(Salt Lake City)
- Habitat for Humanity Greater San
Francisco (San Francisco)
- Habitat for Humanity of Orange County
(Santa Ana, Calif.)
- El Centro de la Raza (Seattle)
- Montgomery Housing Partnership (Silver
Spring, Md.)
- Stocktonians Taking Action to
Neutralize Drugs (Stockton, Calif.)
- Big Bend Habitat for Humanity
(Tallahassee, Fla.)
- Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay, Inc.
(Tampa, Fla.)
- Habitat for Humanity Trenton (Trenton,
N.J.)
- Isles, Inc. (Trenton, N.J.)
- Primavera Foundation (Tucson,
Ariz.)
- Neighborhood Renaissance, Inc. (West
Palm Beach, Fla.)
- Whole Man Ministries (Winston Salem,
N.C.)
- Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County
(Winston Salem, N.C.)
- Habitat for Humanity of San
Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys (Woodland Hills, Calif.)
Grants for the Priority Markets Program were selected from
requests submitted by Wells Fargo team members who nominated
nonprofits needing assistance for large-scale neighborhood
revitalization projects. Recipients must be IRS 501c3 organizations
with successful histories of building or renovating housing for
low-to moderate-income homebuyers.
About the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation
In 2014, the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation donated nearly $20
million in support of affordable housing initiatives serving low-
and moderate-income households – including for seniors, veterans,
and families – through community revitalization efforts. Since its
inception in 1993, the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation has invested
more than $150 million to such efforts, along with mobilizing more
than 4.6 million team member volunteer hours to build and
rehabilitate more than 5,500 homes and counting.
About Wells Fargo (Twitter @WellsFargo)
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) is a nationwide,
diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.7
trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San
Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments,
mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through 8,700
locations, 12,800 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile
banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who
conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 266,000
team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the
United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 30 on
Fortune’s 2015 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells
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