• $250,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 1 year)

  Housing

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — NeighborWorks America provides grants and training to more than 200 non-profit organizations dedicated to community development and affordable housing. NeighborWorks America, in conjunction with two other associations of leading non-profit housing organizations, established the Strength Matters initiative to build the productivity, efficiency, and economic resilience of their member organizations by enabling them to "benchmark" their performance to comparable peers, clarify and standardize their financial reporting, and enhance their ability to raise private, public, and philanthropic capital on attractive terms. NeighborWorks will use this grant to develop and launch a detailed, multi-year business plan to enable Strength Matters to become a financially-independent and largely self-funded enterprise.

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Housing

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The STRENGTH MATTERS® collaborative brings together three national networks of nonprofit affordable housing organizations - Housing Partnership Network, NeighborWorks America and Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future. The collaborative's goal is to build the strength, productivity and profitability of its member organizations and to communicate the best practices of those members to the private, public, and philanthropic sectors - thereby attracting additional capital. Strength Matters will use this grant to fund the activities of various Working Groups and two annual member meetings, and to publish two papers documenting innovative practices related to affordable rental housing financing and preservation.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Housing

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — To support the Strength Matters collaborative and the development of an online Data Warehouse for nonprofit owners of affordable rental housing (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded NeighborWorks America $650,000 between 2010 and 2013.