National Council for Community Development Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 8, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$15,670,148

Major Activities

Activity 2

Conduct programs to inform and aid communities in obtaining and utilizing governmental and other funds for support of local economic development. See schedule o. Inform and aid communities in obtaining and utilizing governmental funds for support of local economic development: ndc conducts training and provides counseling and technical assistance to disadvantaged communities for support of local economic development. During the year, ndc worked with more than 100 communities providing technical assistance and guidance in carrying out economic and community development strategies, programs and projects and in developing public facilities. Through these services, ndc achieved financing for projects and programs, with government and private sector funds, in excess of 700 million. A sample of the projects on which ndc is providing technical assistance around the country include: in salt lake city, ndc is helping the city and county to work with community based organizations and several commercial banks to create a community development corporation designed to revitalize the low income areas of the city and county utilizing sba, new markets tax credits (nmtc), low income housing tax credits and private sector and philanthropic sources of capital. In detroit, mi, ndc worked to structure, finance, and convert a vacant 40,000 sq. Ft. Building into the detroit wellness center, to provide family and obstetric medical services and mental health and juvenile delinquency counseling to residents of the minority southwest community. Work with the city of cleveland, cuyahoga county, and the cleveland foundation to design and implement a lending program for the greater university circle, a very low income community on cleveland's eastside. Under the program, ndc identifies, structures, and finances small businesses, real estate projects, and worker cooperatives that create jobs and quality of life improvements in the neighborhood. In conjunction with this effort, ndc has received low cost financing from a bank consortium, the living cities foundation, and the ford foundation. Assisted the houston food bank, a food bank and employment training center that supplies 572 hunger relief agencies in the houston area, to plan and implement its 50 million expansion to meet increased demand for food and employment training to low income residents of metropolitan houston by financing the rehabilitation and expansion of its facility using new markets tax credits. Worked with meharry medical college, a historically black college and university (hbcu) to expand their medical services for low income residents, to enhance their campus infrastructure, to create a community facility, and to begin revitalizing the surrounding community, one of the poorest neighborhoods in nashville, tn. Worked with the university of maryland, eastern shore, an hbcu in rural maryland, and discover bank and renewable energy tax credits to structure and finance a 25 million project to reduce energy costs by installing solar panels on the chicken houses of low income farmers in the area. Assisting the city of buffalo to attract investment into the 36 million expansion of roswell cancer center campus using public and private funds. The expansion of the campus will create 292 new jobs, most of which will be reserved for low income residents. Working through a partnership with the national association of community economic development agencies, ndc provides technical assistance, training and financial support to fledgling, local nonprofit economic development organizations.

Activity 3

To provide housing for low income individuals and families. See schedule o. To provide housing for low income persons: ndc conducts training and provides counseling and technical assistance to disadvantaged communities and nonprofit organizations in support of providing housing for low income persons. During the year, ndc worked with more than 100 communities and nonprofit organizations and provided training to more than 1,800 practitioners in housing development for low income persons and in low income communities. Our technical assistance provided to nonprofit service providers and community organizations and through ndc's nonprofit housing affiliate and low income housing fund spurred investment that resulted in governmental and other financing totaling more than 100 million, creating or rehabilitating 900 housing units for low income persons, families, the elderly, and persons with special needs. Through our housing development affiliate, ndc has developed over 8,500 units of housing for low income and disadvantaged persons. Partnering with communities and/or local not for profits we initially evaluate the role that we should play, we identify the development team, design the project and structure the financing. More than 75% of our projects are undertaken with not for profit partners and over 35% of our projects are located in rural areas across the country. While the majority of our projects involve new construction we have completed numerous rehabilitations and historic rehabilitations. A sample of some of our projects that we are working on or have completed over the last several years include: working with morgan stanley, the kresge foundation and the local initiatives support corporation under a program entitled "healthy futures," ndc is working to bring together affordable housing and medical services provided by federally qualified health care centers. Under hud's neighborhood stabilization program, ndc has provided formal training and technical assistance to nearly 1,000 local non-profit practitioners working in the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods that are suffering from the highest rates of abandonment and foreclosures. In puerto rico, ndc is working with the department of housing to develop a strategy to convert abandoned housing into renovated units for low income families. In madison county, il ndc has assisted the madison county housing authority to further their housing agenda and create 650 units of new, quality affordable housing. In seattle, wa, ndc is working in the capital hill neighborhood to preserve affordable housing for local residents in a gentrifying neighborhood. Working with the national rural housing coalition, ndc provides technical assistance and financial support to rural housing organizations across the nation.

Filer

EIN

13-6532871