Rule Enterprises, LLC
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Rule Enterprises, LLC
1023 S 26th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Brandon Rule, President
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www.RuleEnterprisesllc.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Rule Enterprises, LLC
1023 S 26th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Brandon Rule, President
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www.RuleEnterprisesllc.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Commitment
• A career of over 35 years focused on enabling people at the community level to achieve change
• Bringing sound planning and management approaches to work in an activist setting
• An approach grounded in the values of social activism and economic justice, cooperative group engagement, and pragmatic practices focused on achieving significant results
Consulting and Technical Assistance
• Clients including community development, organizing, advocacy, early childhood education, and service providers
• Services including project management, organizational development, trouble-shooting and turnaround of underperforming projects, coaching, evaluation, retreat facilitation, and strategic planning, social enterprise
Provider of consulting services to nonprofits, specializing in enabling groups to successfully carry out their projects. The focus is on empowering groups, so they can pursue their critically important work of empowering their communities. Special focus on helping groups whose projects are “stuck”: in predevelopment where the group is unable to move the project forward, or is struggling with achieving the project’s goals after completion.
Services include:
• Assessing capacity, including projecting organizational resources and risks
• Organization development, troubleshooting and turnaround
• Project planning and management
• Assembling and coordinating the work of a development team
• Project financing
• Troubled projects – assessing critical issues, developing stakeholder buy—in on turnaround plans, managing turnaround
• Asset Management
• Training for staff and Boards
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5405 35th Ave
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Bob Brehm
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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2501 Wisconsin Avenue NW, #102
Washington, DC 20007
Marie Bibbs
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Brick & Story is an urban consultancy practice focused on telling the stories of the built environment and the people who live, work, and play within its spaces. In finding creative ways to tell these stories, Brick & Story provides grant writing, strategic communications, engagement strategy, and planning research and analyses to private firms, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and individuals working in the built environment.
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Brick & Story
1112 42nd Street NE
Washington, DC 20019
LaToya Thomas
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www.brickandstory.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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JAC supports affordable housing practitioners in their efforts to create and preserve diverse housing choices for residents in the communities they serve. JAC strives to help clients achieve a balance between doing good and doing well with the belief that when this balance is achieved, communities are strengthened, stabilized and improved. We offer comprehensive underwriting and development for lenders and developers.
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Deepthi Jain
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www.jacllc.org
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Determined by Design specializes in the creation of beautiful, functional and stimulating interior spaces that enable the progress of people and their neighborhoods. In partnership with integrated teams, the firm provides full service interior design for multifamily affordable and supportive housing properties, boutique hotels and small businesses located in economically challenged and emerging communities.
The Determined by Design team is driven by a commitment to establish exceptional interior design as a standard for all, rather than a luxury for few. From real estate developers to architects, and property owners to entrepreneurs — the firm collaborates with many who share a common vision of uplifting lives and enriching places.
Known for being intimate, invested and intentional in approach — the firm’s designers have bonds to the communities they work in, and fully research all directions to present design solutions they emphatically stand by. On every project, Determined by Design leads with price-conscious decision making and leverages strong relationships with suppliers to produce high quality design and durable solutions at any budget.
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2024 Naylor Rd. SE #301
Washington, DC 20020
Kia Weatherspoon
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www.determinedbydesign.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Experienced project manager / owners representative specializing in design coordination and construction administration for affordable housing. Extensive experience in due diligence and cost analysis for multifamily and retail projects. Integrated approach of identifying major construction cost variables early with accurate information to ownership throughout design, bidding and construction.
Services provided include: 1) feasibility analysis to meet investor and lender criteria; 2) representing ownership in design, construction pricing and bidding; 3) contract negotiations; 4) selecting professional consultants; 5) CA; and, 6) capital projects on stabilized properties, including sustainability upgrades.
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Metropolitan Consulting, LLC
2013 Dayton St.
Silver Spring, MD 20902
John Enagonio
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/john-enagonio-90676b3b
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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To make a contribution to affordable housing through architectural design and the sharing with other members of best practices in the fields of architecture, construction technology and sustainability.
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Sassan Gharai
7508 Wisconsin Ave 4th Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814
Sassan Gharai
P: 301-652-6263
sas@sgacos.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Urban Ventures, Inc. provides affordable housing and real estate development consulting services to nonprofit developers, local governments, and nonprofit lenders. Urban Ventures specializes in helping clients secure financing for affordable housing projects, including supportive housing for homeless and other special needs populations. Urban Ventures also assists developers with site selection and financial feasibility analysis. In addition, Urban Ventures helps local governments and nonprofit lenders underwrite affordable housing projects and design affordable housing finance programs. Urban Ventures, Inc. is a DC Certified Business Enterprise (CBE).
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Urban Ventures, Inc.
1625 16th Street, #502
Washington DC 20009
Stuart Hershey, President
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www.urbanventures.com
Consultant & Sole Practitioner Member
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Creative Consultants
1011 Highland Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Peggy Sand
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