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NEWS AND UPDATES
IN TRIBUTE: Bob Wilden - Our Own Man for All Seasons
On behalf of the Falls Church Housing Corporation, I would like to take this opportunity to voice the many like-minded thoughts and prayers that have been lifted up in sorrow, commingled with immense gratitude for the privilege to have known, worked with and loved Bob Wilden. For a few brief years, Bob chose to leave his personal mark on our community - quietly and strategically initiating communal efforts to create, grow and sustain caring enterprises that will leave a legacy - any one of which the normal civic minded citizen would be proud to claim.
Bob was a seed planter who not only challenged us with his "think impossible" ideas, but then stayed to put his money, personal talents and sacrificial time where his mouth was. Inside the Housing Corporation, we called him the prophet as he was always one step ahead with undeniable truths that made some of us squirm and many of us take leaps of faith and jumps through hoops we would have undertaken in no other atmosphere.
Even in the last year of less than optimal health conditions, Bob was still stirring up new plans and wanted nothing more than to stay around to see them take flight under his experienced and pragmatic wings.
Bob was all about leveraging small steps for big results. As an example, some of us are pledged to carry out his very simple and elegantly multi-faceted plan to boost our Falls Church community to take baby steps to help "green up our community". Here's the deal: Signers-On will pledge to convert X number of their home and office use incandescent bulbs to LED. With the funds they expect to save in one year, they will donate the same number or more of LED bulbs thru their faith community or civic group to Homestretch. Homestretch will provide the bulbs to their client families who will experience a savings in electric bills at the same time we are each reducing our carbon footprint by small, but multiplied amounts. Simple, educational, community involvement: Bob Wilden style. We will not forget his legacy nor his challenge to "make things better all the time".
God bless and keep you, Dear Bob.
Carol Jackson, a grateful Friend
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Imogene Wilden Housing Legacy Fund
FCHC Directors are thrilled to announce that they are authorizing preliminary development expenditures for City Center South Apartments from the recently donated funds assembled by the following list of donors to the Imogene Wilden Memorial Seed Capital Fund to benefit our project development efforts in the "quick strike" early development phase when equity capital is most needed. To be competitive in the commercial real estate arena in Northern Virginia, any serious developer requires a significant bank account or access to immediate cash in order to act decisively in the pursuit of properties designed to accommodate permanently affordable rental housing development.
To control these type of funds was the inspired plan initiated by Bob Wilden, FCHC Vice President, who used his own assets combined with those of his own family to honor his wife, Imogene's, memory and establish a challenge grant that FCHC Directors were privileged and motivated to match. Thanks to the vision of a few and the generosity of many, FCHC now has more than $1 million in liquid assets and short term pledges which is now under supervision of Wilden Fund Trustees and dedicated to providing revolving fund cash advances in the pursuit of projects in the very first site control and study phases of land redevelopment. Needless to say we are excited and honored to have this resource available as we work hard to bring into being our first new site since the creation of the Imogene Wilden Memorial Fund.
Imogene Wilden Housing Legacy Fund Donors
Founder and Challenge Grant Initiator
Robert Wilden
Benefactors ($100,000+)
Atlantic Realty Companies
John and Marilyn Duke
Evelyn Ann Freed
Robert Wilden
Stakeholders ($25,000+)
Acacia Federal Savings Bank
Falls Church Presbyterian Church
Jack McClendon
Philip L. Graham Fund
Richard and Susan Stoll
F. Chapman Taylor
The Falls Church
Investors ($5,000+)
BB&T
Christopher W. Elrod Trust
Daniel Elrod
Kathryn J. Elrod
Bernard and Denise Hains
Mercantile Potomac Bank/aka PNC
Washington Forrest Foundation
Contributors ($500+)
Thomas and Patricia Meyers Hemphill
Heritage Property Company LLC
Charles and Carol Jackson
George Snyder
Richard and Linda Spence
Village Preservation and Improvement Society
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Patrons ($50,000+)
Akrige Real Estate
City of Falls Church
Columbia Baptist Church
Commonwealth of Virginia
Partners ($10,000+)
The Acacia Foundation
Dulin United Methodist Church
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
PNC Bank
Temple Rodef Shalom
The Young Group
Shareholders ($1,000+)
Donald Campbell
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.
Falls Church Animal Hospital
Thomas and Phyllis Kelley
The Doris Elrod Ramsey Trust
Stephen Sprague
St. James Catholic Church
The Wollenberg Foundation
James Edmonson, UniDev, LLC
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Supporters
Michale Ankuma
Walter and Mary Bodling
Chester and Carol DeLong
Eugene and Peggy Dolan
Robert and Cynthia Donaldson
Falls Church City Education Association
Jenny Ferry Robles
Margot Fixx
Michael and Kathleen Glover
Louis and Janice Greenberg
Ruth Kaufman
Paul and Susan Lannon
Hank and Joan Lewis
Jeffrey Lybrand
Richard and Susan Dovell Maynard
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Larry and Beverly McNickle
Cindy Mester
Vaughn and Michele Moore
Mary Frances Prothro
Richard and Anne Rodgers
Stepen and DIana Ruth
Diana Sedney
Tom and Edie Smolinski
Michael thursam
Lilla Wise
Sara Fitzgerald and Walt Wurfel
Rosemary Ziskind
Honorary
Meredith Morrison
Jim Scott
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