Local Grant Opportunities

HOPE Awards Provide Recognition and Honorarium for Promoting Minority Home Ownership

Reprinted from the Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin

Posted: May 31, 2002
Deadline: December 2, 2002

Applications Invited for 2003 HOPE Awards to Promote Minority Home Ownership

The HOPE ("Home Ownership Participation for Everyone") Awards is an industry awards program created by a partnership of real estate associations to honor organizations and individuals who are making outstanding contributions to promote minority homeownership.

Categories for the awards include: homeownership education, finance, project of the year, real estate brokerage, public policy, media coverage, and leadership. Awards will be determined by a panel of distinguished judges based on the impact of the nominee's work on promoting minority homeownership, use of innovative ideas, acceptance by the minority community, focus on minority homeownership, and focus on affordability.

Each of the award winners will receive a $10,000 honorarium. Winners will also discuss their work and share their experiences with housing policy makers at a symposium at the National Press Club.

Information about the program and application forms are available at the HOPE Awards Web site.

Grant Awards:

A community foundation receives funding for its Regional Economic Diversification Program

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Grantmaker:
New York Women's Foundation
34 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10010
(212) 414-4342; f
ax (212) 414-5708
info@nwyf.org
http://www.nywf.org

Description:
To help low-income women develop leadership and self-sufficiency skills by combining collective economic-development activities with financial education: $30,000 to Central Brooklyn Partnership, Sisters Lending Circle (Brooklyn, New York).

Published: June 27, 2002