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The Innovative Academy of Liberal Arts & Sciences (IALAS) IALAS utilizes a 2-Generation approach to provide STEAM (science, technology, entrepreneurship, arts, and mental health) education, career training, economic empowerment, and innovative mental health services for students and parents that have been geographically and politically isolated from key resources and opportunities to build wealth east of the river in the District of Columbia.

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Innovative Academy of Liberal
Arts & Sciences
301 Tingey Street SE, #109
Washington, DC 20003
Ashley McMichael,
Founder/Executive Director

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www.theialas.org

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The mission of Manna, Inc. is to help low- and moderate-income persons acquire quality housing, build assets for families through home ownership, revitalize distressed neighborhoods, and preserve racial and ethnic diversity. Manna accomplishes its mission through the following means: Developing and building affordable housing, with emphasis on home ownership housing and Providing, at no cost to participants, high quality financial literacy training and home buyer education with peer support.

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Manna, Inc.
6856 Eastern Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20012
Bill Winston, Chief Administrative Officer

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www.mannadc.org

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Community Housing Partners Corporaton
448 Depot Street
Christiansburg, VA 24073
Samantha Brown

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The Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA) envisions the city of Alexandria with a range of affordable housing options that provide residents with a springboard to increased levels of prosperity and to improve their quality of living. ARHA is a viable and capable housing partner with its Residents, the City, the Private Sector and the Community in the creation and preservation of sustainable neighborhoods.

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Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority
401 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Octavia Jackson, HR Director

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http://www.arha.us

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Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) has a primary mission to preserve and steward affordable rental housing to provide stability, hope and economic security to low- and moderate-income individuals and families. Between 1965 and 1990, $60 billion in federal funding was invested in privately-owned, affordable rental homes for families, the disabled and the elderly. These homes were built in big cities, small towns and rural areas across the country. They were multi-story high-rises and single family bungalows. But all were built according to the same premise: that the government would provide funds to underwrite construction and operating costs, and in return, owners would promise that rents would be affordable to low income families and seniors on fixed incomes for the duration of the fixed financing period. Now more than four decades have passed, and the financial notes which built this housing are reaching “paid in full” status. With the expiration of each financing agreement, the leverage for keeping rents affordable is lost.

POAH seeks to intervene and forestall such losses, preserving this valuable and fragile asset for future generations. POAH also uses its preservation transactions to demonstrate how creative thinking and innovative financing can combine for the best outcomes. To the professionals at POAH, a deal is not just a deal. Navigating the complicated and highly regulated world of affordable housing finance is POAH’s proven route toward the goal of preserving and protecting these valuable and vulnerable homes for the future for those in need.

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Preservation of Affordable Housing
777 N. Capitol Street NE, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20002
Maia Shanklin Roberts

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www.poah.org