Enterprise Community Partners

Enterprise Community Partners Bringing Energy-Efficent Homes to the Masses With $4 Billion Project

Ariel Schwartz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:08:00 -0400

Fast History: Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall in New Orleans, 2005

Clay Dillow — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:01:29 -0400

Most Americans remember tuning into the news this morning four years ago to find a beloved American city half immersed in water after Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3-fueled storm surge broke New Orleans fragile levees. Katrina wrought more than $80 billion in destruction, but the worst damage might have been inflicted on a beleaguered President George W. Bush, who saw many supporters turn sour as the death toll climbed (eventually settling at 1,836, with more than 700 unaccounted for). But while it has taken time, New Orleans is on the rebound.

Social Enterprises of the Year

Fast Company staff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:30:07 -0500

Enterprise Community Partners, has invested $9 billion in equity capital, pre-development lending, mortgage financing, and development grants to house low- and moderate-income Americans. It also helped create the low-income-housing tax credit that for 25 years has provided a way for the business world to address the need for affordable housing while still making a profit. That credit has accounted for some 90% of the affordable rental housing in the U.S. Now it is taking on the credit crunch with innovative financing and a green-building initiative.

High Point: Seattle's Gren Community

Fast Company Staff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:15:27 -0500

"When George shows you his water trick, be very amazed," whispers Enterprise Community Partners CEO Doris Koo. "It's his favorite." We are at High Point, a 120-acre mixed-income project in Seattle, waiting for George Nemeth of the city's housing authority. He arrives bearing charts, graphs, and a bottle of water.

Contributors

Fast Company Staff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:42 -0500

Kevin Van Aelst

The 10 Best Social Enterprises of 2009

Fast Company Staff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:15 -0500

We have found them: Nine bold and timely ideas that wow us -- and that have earned these organizations a place alongside Enterprise Community Partners on our honor roll of 2009 Social Enterprises of the Year. Will all of these notions work in the long run and on a grand scale? Perhaps not. But they represent the kind of innovative thinking that can transform lives and change our world.

Do Something: An IPO

Edward Norton's $9,000,000,000 Housing Project (that's $9 Billion)

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:14 -0500

Edward Norton, the two-time Oscar nominee, stood at the podium at the Hilton Washington this past May and tried to be humble. The actor was in the capital to present a major civil rights award to someone he knew well -- his grandmother. It was gearing up to be a nice moment. "I work in a profession," he told the crowd of social workers, lawyers, and community organizers, "that gets a totally disproportionate amount of attention relative to its true contribution to our culture." Suddenly, from the front row, the no-nonsense clerk of the U.S.