Achieving Excellence in Community Development Round V applications (nonprofit housing organizational development program) (due March 15)

NeighborWorks® America is now seeking qualified participants for the next round of the NeighborWorks® Achieving Excellence in Community Development program, set to begin in fall 2010. We are seeking a group of inspired individuals to lead their organizations and communities through performance-driven change.

We appreciate your help in identifying appropriate candidates for the program by telling your colleagues and business contacts about this exciting opportunity—and we also hope you will provide us with recommendations for the next Achieving Excellence class. If you are recommending someone for the program, please let us know that by sending an e-mail to Christina Deady (cdeady@nw.org) with the applicant’s name and a few words about your recommendation or by providing something to go with the person’s application and please identify yourself as an Achieving Excellence graduate. Your recommendation is important to us.

NeighborWorks® America typically selects participants who have been executive directors or other senior organizational leaders with significant authority in a community development organization for five or more years (even if not at the same organization), and whose current organization is at least 5 years old. We seek individuals who are thoughtful about the community development field, excited about the work that they do now, and eager to take that work to the next level.

Although you can certainly draw on your experience when telling others about the program, we’d like to bring to your attention some of the important quantifiable impacts Achieving Excellence has had among the entire population of participants, as demonstrated in an independent evaluation of the first two classes:

:: More than $12.3 million new income generated by 23 organizations, more than $5.5 million of which was generated through operations (fees for service, etc.)
:: $5,566,076 new income generated from internal operations and $6,788,978 new income from externally generated sources by 23 organizations
:: Total clients served increased by 146%.
:: Average total assets increased by 23%; average increase attributed to AE was $6,860,507 per organization with $96,047,109 cumulatively
:: Affordable housing units developed and managed increased 32% and 22%, respectively.
:: Approximately 2,500 new affordable rental units developed, managed or acquired by 18 organizations
:: 89,100 square feet new commercial space created by 7 organizations
:: 887 new homeowners created by 15 organizations

Attached below is an application form and the application can also be downloaded at www.nw.org/ae, where there is also a lot of information that may address many of the potential participants’ questions. Applications are due to NeighborWorks® America by Monday, March 15, 2010. To nominate a leader in the community development field or to find out more about the application process, please contact Christina Deady, director of leadership and workforce development programs, at cdeady@nw.org or 202-220-2432.

Application: AEV-Application.doc

Brochure: AEV Brochure.pdf