Priority Markets Program awards 47 grants to
nonprofits for neighborhood revitalization
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced $6 million
toward neighborhood revitalization efforts with 47 grants to
nonprofits through the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation’s 2017
Priority Markets Program.
“We are focused on making meaningful contributions to address
affordable and sustainable housing,” said Martin Sundquist,
executive director of the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation. “These
grants help revitalize neighborhoods, build stronger communities,
and are an example of the positive impact that can be achieved with
thoughtful public-private collaboration.”
The 2017 Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Priority Markets Program
supports projects, programs and initiatives that help remove
barriers to sustainable housing in low- and moderate-income
communities. Since 2009, the program has provided grants totaling
more than $48 million to nonprofits in more than 125 communities,
impacting more than 40,000 people and creating more than 4,000
places for people to call home.
Grant recipients were selected from applications submitted by
nonprofits Wells Fargo identified as leading large-scale affordable
housing projects. Recipients must be 501 (c)(3) organizations with
successful histories of supporting low- to moderate-income
communities.
Grant recipients of the 2017 Priority Markets Program are:
1. Habitat for Humanity Anchorage (Anchorage,
Alaska)
2. Montgomery Habitat for Humanity
(Montgomery, Alabama)
3. Pima County Community Land Trust (Tucson,
Arizona)
4. American Family Housing (Midway City,
California)
5. NeighborWorks Orange County (Orange,
California)
6. Habitat for Humanity Fresno County
(Fresno, California)
7. West Hollywood Community Housing
Corporation (West Hollywood, California)
8. Resources for Community Development
(Berkeley, California)
9. Satellite Affordable Housing Associates
(Berkeley, California)
10. Neighborhood Housing Services of the
Inland Empire (San Bernardino, California)
11. S.V.D.P. Management, Inc. (San Diego,
California)
12. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development
Corporation (San Francisco, California)
13. Visionary Home Builders of California,
Inc. (Stockton, California)
14. NeighborWorks New Horizons (New Haven,
Connecticut)
15. Neighborhood Housing Services of
Waterbury, Inc. (Waterbury, Connecticut)
16. Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C.
(Washington, D.C.)
17. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami
(Miami, Florida)
18. Opa-Locka Community Development
Corporation (Opa-Locka, Florida)
19. Ability Housing, Inc. (Jacksonville
Florida)
20. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Orlando
(Orlando, Florida)
21. Bright Community Trust, Inc. (Clearwater,
Florida)
22. Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay (Tampa,
Florida)
23. City of Refuge, Inc. (Atlanta,
Georgia)
24. Columbus Area Habitat for Humanity
(Columbus, Georgia)
25. NeighborWorks Columbus (Columbus,
Georgia)
26. NeighborWorks Boise (Boise, Idaho)
27. Saint Ambrose Housing Aid Center
(Baltimore, Maryland)
28. Unity Properties, Inc. (Baltimore,
Maryland)
29. Preservation North Carolina (Raleigh,
North Carolina)
30. Reinvestment Partners (Durham, North
Carolina)
31. Habitat for Humanity of Omaha (Omaha,
Nebraska)
32. New Jersey Community Capital (New
Brunswick, New Jersey)
33. Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity
(Albuquerque, New Mexico)
34. Central City Concern, Inc. (Portland,
Oregon)
35. Transition Projects, Inc. (Portland,
Oregon)
36. Habitat for Humanity of Chester County
(Coatesville, Pennsylvania)
37. One80 Place (Charleston, South
Carolina)
38. Jubilee Park & Community Center
Corporation (Dallas, Texas)
39. Trinity Habitat for Humanity (Fort Worth,
Texas)
40. Housing Channel (Fort Worth, Texas)
41. New Hope Housing, Inc. (Houston,
Texas)
42. Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
43. Habitat for Humanity South Hampton Roads
(Norfolk, Virginia)
44. Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and
Greater Williamsburg (Newport News, Virginia)
45. Wesley Housing Development Corporation
(Alexandria, Virginia)
46. Housing Hope (Everett, Washington)
47. Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton
Area (Jackson, Wyoming)
About the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation
In 2016, the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation donated $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 $190 million in such efforts, along with mobilizing more
than 4.7 million team member volunteer hours to build and
rehabilitate nearly 7,100 homes and counting.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified,
community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in
assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial
needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and
headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking,
insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial
finance through more than 8,400 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the
internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 42
countries and territories to support customers who conduct business
in the global economy. With approximately 268,000 team members,
Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States.
Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune’s 2017
rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and
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