NeighborWorks America
Working Together for Strong Communities®
NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities.
About NeighborWorks America
Our mission: NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities.
What does it mean to be a mission-driven organization? A clearly defined and executed mission guides and informs, in good times and bad, and provides context for why our work matters. The pursuit of a mission motivates employees and other stakeholders, driving long- and short-term goals. People often claim they’re “on a mission,” but how do they deliver on it? At the end of the day, it is one of the fundamental ways we chart our course and measure success along the way.
At the foundation of the NeighborWorks mission are nearly 250 strong, healthy and prepared network organizations in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As a congressionally chartered and funded nonpartisan nonprofit, we support organizations that provide communities with affordable housing, financial counseling and coaching, training, and resident engagement and collaboration in the areas of health, employment and education.
NeighborWorks America is a private nonprofit organization, established by Congress in 1978 as the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (Public Law 95-557) to expand opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities. NeighborWorks pursues this mission through its support of a network of nearly 250 nonprofit housing and community development organizations, which provide on-the-ground support to families and communities in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. NeighborWorks leverages its national reach and expertise to build technical skills and organizational capacity, supplement financial resources, and amplify the efforts of these local and regional nonprofit organizations while also acting as a bridge to partners from across the nonprofit, for-profit and public sectors to achieve lasting results. Through a unique mix of programming and services tailored
to meet local needs, NeighborWorks network organizations develop service- enriched rental housing, spearhead community stabilization and engagement activities to revitalize neighborhoods affected by economic downturn or natural disasters, and work to rebuild pathways to improved credit, savings and sustainable homeownership for low- to moderate-income families and families of color.
NeighborWorks America provides network organizations with resources that include
flexible grants , tailored technical assistance, best-in-class training and more. As a
steward of taxpayer resources, NeighborWorks America also conducts rigorous
oversight and annual assessment of the network.
What We Do
To ensure that our network organizations are strong and healthy in their operations, we conduct rigorous assessment before acceptance into the NeighborWorks network and every year after. We offer programs and support to help our network organizations establish and maintain healthy operations, measure the reach of their efforts, expand their program offerings to meet community needs, and move toward long-term stability and growth. NeighborWorks builds the skills, supplements the resources and amplifies the reach of network organizations so they can empower more individuals and transform more communities than they could on their own.
Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI)
Advancing Race, Equity Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) is a corporate priority for NeighborWorks America. In order to drive operational excellence and stewardship, REDI is used as a decisional framework to assess equity and inclusion within the organization and across our network. Our goal is to foster an organizational culture and climate that identifies, addresses and resolves inequities. Through our equity plan, we systematically and strategically identify patterns that allow inequities to exist and implement changes in our practices, protocols and policies to advance inclusive excellence.
Contact NeighborWorks America
Our National Headquarters
1255 Union St. NE, Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20002
Phone: (202) 760-4000
https://www.neighborworks.org/Contact-Us
