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270 records found
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First Home, Inc.
Description: First Home, Inc.provides first time homebuyers with essential financing services and programs including extensive home buyer education, comprehensive short and long term home purchase counseling, community homebuyer subsidy program placement assistance, first time home buyer loan programs and a coordinated approach to working through all the elements of a real estate transaction.
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Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
Parent Org: Habitat for Humanity International
Description: Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Locally, the Greater San Francisco affiliate partners with working families and the community to build affordable ownership homes in Marin, San Francisco and the Peninsula. Formed through the merger of Peninsula Habitat for Humanity and Habitat for Humanity San Francisco in August 2008, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco provides a unique solution to the local housing crisis and has enabled nearly 150 families to purchase affordable housing.
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HIP Housing
Description: HIP Housing (formerly Human Investment Project Housing) is a non-profit organization that creates permanent housing solutions for over 1,000 persons in San Mateo County every year and assists an additional 1,500 with housing resources. HIP Housing is the only readily available resource for low cost housing in San Mateo. Each year HIP Housing provides housing through the property it owns and manages, and through its programs in Homesharing Help and Information, Self Sufficiency and Home Equity Conversion Programs. HIP Housing also develops, acquires and rehabilitates existing housing to expand the pool of affordable housing in San Mateo County. HLC itself is among the many housing initiatives HIP has helped launch.
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Housing Trust Fund Revenue Sources Advisory Group
Parent Org: PIA
Description: Peninsula Interfaith Action, made up of 21 Peninsula and Santa Clara County religious entities, organizes for change in six main issue areas: affordable housing, homeless services,homework centers, education and parent organizing, economic development, childcare and organizational development.
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Inn Vision/Clara Mateo Alliance
Description: Now a division of InnVision, a nonprofit group based in San Jose, the Clara-Mateo Alliance (CMA) is a unique collaboration between the public and private sectors in the Silicon Valley area. The Alliance includes The VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, the cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Jose and Mountain View, plus several private foundations, corporations, individuals, and over forty community service providers. These local entities work together to provide safe shelter and services to homeless individuals, couples and families from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and the surrounding communities. Besides providing basic shelter needs, CMA offers a wide range of other services such as information and referral, housing search assistance, and aftercare support to help people maintain their housing.
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Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
Parent Org: Joint Venture Silicon Valley
Description: Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network has a vision of building a sustainable community that competes globally. Their mission is to mobilize people from business, labor, government, education, and all segments of the community to identify and to act on regional issues. One of Joint Venture's initiatives is the Silicon Valley Civic Action Network (SV CAN). The mission of SV CAN is to engage thousands of Silicon Valley residents and workers in achieving the goals of Silicon Valley 2010, a vision for the future emerging resulting from a communit stakeholders process. Components of the vision include an innovative economy, a livable environment, an inclusive society and regional stewardship. Two special projects towards these goals are Shared Prosperity (Bridging the Digital Divide) and Livable Communities (Promoting Smart Growth).
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Jones Day
Description: Tracing its origins to 1893 in Cleveland, today Jones Day encompasses more than 2,000 lawyers resident in 25 locations and ranks among the world's largest and most geographically diverse law firms. The Firm acts as principal outside counsel to, or provides significant legal representation for, more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as to a wide variety of other entities, including privately held companies, financial institutions, investment firms, health care providers, retail chains, foundations, educational institutions, and individuals.
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Kainos Home and Training Center
Description: Kainos provides residential homes for adults with developmental disabilities. Services are provided in four program areas: Residential Living Skills Training, Independent Living Program, Vocational Training and Supported Employment.
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