Neighborhood Progress Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 9, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$5,137,511

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Reimagining cleveland: additionally, we manage citywide vacant land reuse and vacant property reclamation and prevention programming to the areas hardest hit by foreclosure and property abandonment crisis. In 2011, neighborhood progress and its partners received the american planning association's national planning excellence award for innovation in sustaining places for the creative land reuse initiative, reimagining cleveland, which has transformed 195 unproductive vacant parcels into 124 greenspace projects within the city of cleveland, including vineyards, orchards, market and community gardens, sideyards, and pocket parks. Reimagining cleveland is made possible through the partnership of the city of cleveland, cleveland urban design collaborative, land studio, and neighborhood progress, inc. Neighborhood progress also partners with the cleveland housing network, community development nonprofit staff, the city of cleveland, and foreclosure prevention agencies in six of the nine sii neighborhoods on the opportunity homes initiative.

Activity 3

Opportunity homes: opportunity homes is a three-tiered program consisting of the renovation of homes that have become vacant through foreclosure, demolition of vacant or abandoned homes not suitable for renovation, and-through counseling, organizing and advocating for families in distress - preventing families from losing their homes through foreclosure. This initiative builds upon a network of strong community development organizations: the 27-year track record of the cleveland housing network, the financial and development capacity of neighborhood progress, the community development nonprofits' ties to the neighborhood and residents, the proven track record of counseling agencies such as empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) in facilitating loan modifications and workouts, and a commitment of the city of cleveland to target resources and programming to these six neighborhoods that will support them now and in the future as great places to live.the opportunity homes program has seen the acquisition and rehab of 66 homes with an average sales price of $109,061. In addition, through close coordination and collaboration with our partners in these target areas, over 350 blighted and abandoned structures have been demolished, 86 foreclosures were averted through work with counseling agencies, over 160 low income housing tax credit homes were completed, and 50 vacant lots have been brought back to beneficial use, e.g. Landscaping, pocket parks, playground or community gardens.

Filer

EIN

34-1611055