Insurance, a repair business, a real estate firm and a sub-shop franchise. These are just some of the ways NeighborWorks network organizations earn revenue to support their nonprofits, which, with new management practices and processes, should help those nonprofits remain stable for years to come. 

Tia McCoy, neighborhood engagement director for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and instructor at NeighborWorks America's upcoming Winter Virtual Training Institute (VTI), is thinking about changes: Evictions and foreclosure moratoria ending, an ever-changing pandemic, and the impact these things have on credit.

The new year is a time when people often look ahead. They talk about their hopes, their resolutions, the things they want to achieve in the coming 365 days. On the cusp of the new year, we asked NeighborWorks America's senior vice presidents to share some of their hopes and wishes for 2022. 

"Every community can be a place of opportunity," shares Steve Barbier, senior relationship manager for the Western Region at NeighborWorks America. The tenet underscores NeighborWorks' decision several years ago to better understand how to be of service to Native communities.
 

There were already obstacles when it came to building homes on the Navajo Nation. Accessing water and electricity, for instance. Or the ability for would-be homeowners to find a mortgage. Native Partnership for Housing (NPH), a NeighborWorks network organization working to create a path to affordable homeownership, had an additional obstacle: Finding the right construction crew to do the job.

For 25 years, Memphis, Tennessee's United Housing, Inc., has built and renovated hundreds of homes, while helping individuals with everything from repair loans to down payment assistance.