- 2024 Who's Who in Impact Investing Awards Announced
- CHFA Receives National Recognition
- CHFA Awarded $4.5 million Grant to Support Affordable Housing
- Own Your Tomorrow Homebuyer Event
- Small-scale Technical Assistance Awards Announced
- GrantCorps Spring Cohort Application Now Open
- CHFA in the Community
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who's who in impact investing awards announced | CHFA congratulates its Executive Director and CEO, Cris White, and CHFA Board Member Santhosh Ramdoss (President, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Gary Community Ventures), for being selected as 2024 Who’s Who in Impact Investing awardees. The awards were announced by Denver Business Journal and Impact Finance Center on November 8th. Winners were recognized for their significant contributions in their field, and creating a positive, lasting impact. View the full list of Who's Who awardees. | |
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chfa receives national recognition | |
This fall, CHFA was proud to receive several awards, and recognition at the national level.
Brian Miller, CHFA Director of Asset Management, received a Contract Administration Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Asset Management by the Affordable Housing Management Association (AHMA). The award recognized Brian’s exceptional leadership and was given at the Rocky Mountain Heartland AHMA conference in September.
CHFA was also recognized among its peers at the annual conference for the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) held in Phoenix in September. The NCSHA award recognized CHFA’s Community Partnerships platform, including efforts focused on statewide engagement with communities to learn about unique needs, inform investment, and build capacity. Additional details about the award are available on the NCSHA website.
Finally, CHFA earned a spot on the 2024 Fortune Best Medium Workplaces list. This list spans all industries and recognizes companies throughout the United States whose employee feedback demonstrates that they are among the top surveyed organizations overall. CHFA also earned spots on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2024 and Best Workplaces for Women 2024 lists.
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chfa awarded $4.5 million grant to support affordable housing | |
The U.S. Department of the Treasury awarded CHFA a $4.5 million Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) grant to support the preservation and construction of affordable multifamily rental housing in Colorado. CMF grants are competitively awarded, and CHFA was one of 48 organizations to receive an award during the latest round. This is the sixth time that CHFA has been awarded a CMF grant since 2017.
To date, CHFA has deployed $38.1 million in prior Capital Magnet Fund awards to 46 developments throughout Colorado, supporting more than 3,000 affordable apartments. Additional information about the CHFA CMF program is available at chfainfo.com/cmf.
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own your tomorrow homebuyer event | CHFA will host a homebuyer event on Saturday, November 23rd, from 10:00am to Noon at CrossPurpose in Denver as part of its Own Your Tomorrow initiative to increase Black and African American homeownership. Attendees will hear from CHFA and industry experts about how homeownership creates generational wealth, how to build a homebuying team, and how to access down payment programs. There will be time for questions, and one-on-one meetings with experts. The event is free, and attendees are encouraged to register online. | |
small-scale housing technical assistance awards announced | |
CHFA congratulates the following 10 applicants recently awarded small-scale housing technical assistance during the latest application round.
- AmericaWest Housing Solutions (Cripple Creek)
- Bennet School District (Bennet)
- Byers School District (Byers)
- City of Yuma (Yuma)
- Mancos Valley Properties (Mancos)
- Melissa Memorial Hospital (Holyoke)
- Monte Vista Urban Renewal Authority (Monte Vista)
- Town of Del Norte (Del Norte)
- Town of Hayden (Hayden)
- Town of Westcliffe (Westcliffe)
CHFA’s Small-scale Housing Technical Assistance (SHIP-TA) program helps catalyze small-scale affordable housing developments of 25 units or fewer by providing access to an affordable housing consultant and pre-development grant assistance. With this latest round, CHFA has supported over 65 projects across the state with small-scale technical assistance since the program launched in 2021. The next application round will be held in early 2025, and details will be announced soon. Full TA program details are available on the CHFA website.
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grantcorps spring cohort application now open | CHFA is a proud funding partner of GrantCorps, a program offered by Community Resource Center that provides information, training, and technical support to nonprofits across Colorado in grant development and management. In 2025, GrantCorps will offer grant capacity-building support for up to 24 organizations over two application periods including access to information and resources, training, coaching, and technical support. Visit the Community Resource Center website to learn more and to apply. Applications for the spring cohort will be accepted until January 10, 2025. | |
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Follow CHFA on social media (see the links in the email footer) to keep up with our involvement at various happenings around Colorado. Over the next month, you can find us in attendance and/or proudly sponsoring the following events across the state.
Week of November 11 – November 17
- November 8 – 22 | Food for Hope – Feed 5000 | Thornton| More Information
- November 14 | Higher Learning U African American Young Ladies Summit | Aurora | More Information
- November 14 | SBDC 4th Annual Holiday Pop-Up and Networking Event | Pueblo | More Information
- November 15 | Project I See You 2024 Annual Gala | Denver | More Information
- November 16 | Hayden Business Pitch Competition | Hayden | More Information
Week of November 18 – November 24
- November 21 | SAINT Volunteer Transportation – Volunteer Celebration | Fort Collins | More Information
- November 23 | Own Your Tomorrow Homebuyer Event | Denver | More Information
- November 23 – 24 | HopeWest Holiday Show and Luncheon | Grand Junction | More Information
Week of December 2 – December 8
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CHFA Community Relationship Managers:
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Trisha Herman, Community Relationship Manager, Eastern Colorado | |  |
Kaylee Romero, Community Relationship Manager, South Central Colorado | |
Caroline Trani, Community Relationship Manager, Southern Colorado | | |
Chris Lopez, Community Relationship Manager, Southwest Colorado | |
Margie Joy, Community Relationship Manager, Western Slope Colorado | | |
John Plakorus, Manager, Regional Community Relationships | |
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