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2007 AHEAD Program Recipients

Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Tucson, AZ	Arizona State Credit Union	The Community Housing Organization	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor will employ displaced workers to reclaim electronic materials from landfill for sale to recyclers. The workers will receive basic computer technician skills training for future jobs refurbishing computers and other office equipment donated or salvaged from local businesses and institutions. The refurbished equipment will be sold to low-income residents and community organizations. The program will also provide environmentally responsible disposal options for electronics. The grant will fund a computer technician apprenticeship program that will prepare students for jobs with the company.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Reno, NV	Bank of Nevada	Community Services Agency Development Corp.	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor, in partnership with California Community Economic Development Association, will prepare government and private nonprofit entities to undertake the revitalization of low- and moderate-income communities throughout Nevada. The grant will fund training and provide technical assistance to increase capacity of nonprofit community development organizations in Nevada.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
San Francisco, CA	California Bank & Trust	San Francisco Community Land Trust	$25,000
Project Description: The project will acquire and convert apartment buildings to limited-equity housing cooperatives that will provide affordable homeownership opportunities to low- and moderate-income households in San Francisco. The sponsor will maintain ownership of the land to ensure affordability in perpetuity. The grant will pay the salary of staff to implement the program and provide training for all participants in the cooperative.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Rural Communities in Nevada	Charles Schwab Bank	Nevada Rural Housing Authority	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor seeks to establish a statewide community land trust that will create and perpetually preserve a stable supply of affordable housing in rural areas in Nevada. The grant will fund feasibility and sustainability studies for a proposed statewide land trust.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Sparks, NV	Charles Schwab Bank	Nevada Certified Farmers Market Association	$25,000
Project Description: The project will establish a permanent, year-round farmers market facility that will expand opportunities for low-income farmers and entrepreneurs and increase access to affordable locally grown foods in the community. The grant will pay for facility planning and design and infrastructure for a permanent market facility.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
San Francisco, CA	Citibank, N.A.	Bayview Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc.	$25,000
Project Description: The project will construct a facility in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood that will include a senior center with health and social services and supportive housing for seniors aging in place. The grant will pay a portion of the salary for a director and pay overhead and administrative costs.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
San Francisco, CA	Citibank, N.A.	Earned Assets Resource Network (EARN)	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor seeks to make financial services and products available to graduates of EARN programs in order to help them preserve and leverage their assets and build new assets over time. Alumni Association members will have continued access to financial education and planning services and to low-cost investment and insurance products. The grant will pay the salary of staff for Alumni program administration, measurement, and evaluation.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Santa Ana, CA	Citibank, N.A.	Taller San Jose	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor will employ students from its building trades training course for low-income, at-risk youth to build affordable housing for the City of Santa Ana through a joint venture with the city and Orange County Community Housing Corporation. The grant will fund program start-up costs, including a project manager's salary, tools, equipment, and transportation.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
San Francisco, CA	Citibank, N.A.	La Cocina	$25,000
Project Description: The project provides commercial kitchen space, food industry training, and technical assistance to low-income women who operate informal food-related businesses out of their homes, or who would like to start such a business. The grant will fund development of internal fiscal and human resource systems and evaluation tools that will enable La Cocina to operate as an independent nonprofit.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Avila Beach, CA	Coast National Bank	Avila Business Association	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor, Avila Business Association, seeks to accelerate the recovery of Avila Beach, an unincorporated, low-income seaside community, from a devastating oil spill. The Association proposes to develop and implement an economic development strategy that will: significantly increase business and job opportunities; market the town's many recreational assets to increase tourism; and build an infrastructure to accommodate increased tourism and commerce, such as a parking district and additional retail space. The grant will pay the salary of an executive director to create and implement a long-term economic development strategy for rebuilding the town.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Los Angeles, CA	Mississippi Valley Life Insurance Company	A Community of Friends	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor seeks to create a transit-based, mixed-use development that combines a pre-school, commercial space, and subterranean parking with 41 affordable rental units designed for large families and families with special needs. The grant will pay for predevelopment fees associated with the project and build capacity for development.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Phoenix, AZ	National Bank of Arizona	International Rescue Committee	$25,000
Project Description: The project, a component of IRC's refugee resettlement program, provides linguistically and culturally appropriate financial education to refugees. The training includes: pre- and post-homeownership instruction, credit counseling, mortgage preparedness, anti-predatory lending guidance, and home maintenance. The project also provides an Individual Development Account (IDA) program that helps clients save for a home purchase. The grant will pay staff costs of providing financial education and housing counseling services and of administering an IDA program.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Rural Communities in Arizona, California and Nevada	Rabobank, N.A.	Radio Bilingue, Inc.	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor will collaborate with ACORN Housing Corporation on a financial literacy initiative targeting rural families in California's major agricultural regions and selected rural communities in Arizona and Nevada. Six live interactive talk show programs, along with related educational and promotional announcements, will be produced and broadcast in Spanish by a network of public FM stations in California and on select stations in Arizona and Nevada, and will also be made available nationally via satellite. Printed materials will be distributed through ACORN’s network of local offices and at events held in targeted cities. The grant will fund curriculum and materials development and broadcast program development, production, and air time.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Monterey, CA	Rabobank, N.A.	Women's Fund of Monterey County	$25,000
Project Description: The project will provide educational and financial resources to help low-income women launch or expand small home-based businesses. This micro-lending program promotes economic advancement for women who are mainly farmworkers residing in the rural areas of northern Monterey County. The grant will fund development of the program's technical assistance and mentoring components.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Oakland, CA	Silicon Valley Bank	Mandela MarketPlace Inc.	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor seeks to economically empower low-income inner-city residents by operating the Mandela Foods Cooperative, a worker- and community-owned grocery cooperative and nutrition education center in West Oakland that brings healthy food choices to an underserved area. The grant will pay consultant fees associated with pre-opening activities and entrepreneurship training.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Los Angeles, CA	United Commercial Bank	Valley Economic Development Center	$25,000
Project Description: The project will provide technical assistance and loan packaging services to emerging and existing entrepreneurs in a 30-block area of historic downtown Los Angeles targeted for retail revitalization. The grant will pay marketing costs associated with outreach to targeted businesses.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Stockton, CA	Washington Mutual Bank	Women's Center of San Joaquin County	$25,000
Project Description: The project will expand the financial education services available to low-income victims of domestic violence residing at DAWN House, a safe house for battered women and their children. The grant will fund financial education services provided to women being served by DAWN House.
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Location	Member	Sponsor	Grant Amount
Oakland, CA	Washington Mutual Bank	Northern California Land Trust	$25,000
Project Description: The sponsor seeks to create a facility that will serve as an incubator for low-income artists and a local performing arts venue for the West Oakland community. The Noodle Factory Performing Arts Center will consist of a theater, classrooms, rehearsal space, and a café. The grant will pay for staff salaries to fundraise and increase capacity for the structural build-out of the Performing Arts Center and Café.
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