The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equality, and social justice. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the Urban League collaborates at the national and local levels with community leaders, policymakers, and corporate partners to elevate the standards of living for African Americans and other historically underserved groups. The National Urban League is a member of the Black Homeownership Collaborative.
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NCRC’s Race, Wealth & Community division seeks to grow and transform wealth building opportunities to end historical economic inequality. We’re aiming for a society where wealth and its growth advance the nation as a whole, including historically disenfranchised racial and ethnic groups.
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It is the goal of the New American Dream initiative to increase the rate of Black homeownership in America through hard work, integrity, collaboration, and continued learning. Their mission is to decrease racial disparities by providing educational opportunities related to home buying, financial access, and career opportunities in the mortgage business for African-Americans. The initiative is a program developed by New American Funding. New American Funding believes that Black homeownership is an important factor in economic development. They aim to bridge the racial wealth gap by developing opportunities for all communities.
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Ninety to Zero provides a roadmap for companies and organizations to drive change now, and acts as an engine for continued collaborative learning and growth. Leading CEOs and Executive Directors across all pillars of our nation’s economy are moving together, guided by experts, to transform the economic landscape and drive racial equity.
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Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency has launched a comprehensive program designed to raise awareness and dispel the myths of purchasing a home in the Greater Sacramento Region. The Community Homeownership Initiative program is a partnership effort consisting of the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Sacramento Realtist Association, and MUFG Union Bank. While this initiative is open to anyone, this effort provides expanded outreach to increase the homeownership rate in the Greater Sacramento Region for African American prospective home buyers.
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The single-family products from Freddie Mac make homeownership more accessible and affordable. Keeping mortgage capital flowing is their business in the secondary mortgage market. Thwy acquire mortgage loans from lenders so they can then lend to qualified borrowers.
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TechEquity Collaborative envisions a world where the growth of the tech industry creates economic prosperity for everyone, and where tech sector employees and companies are engaged and active participants in making our economy equitable. They mobilize tech workers and companies to advance structural change in housing and workforce & labor to address economic inequality at its core.
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The Greenlining Institute believes that housing needs to be de-commodified and understood as a human right, because equitable housing will lead to greater health and economic security for all. We endeavor to advance a statewide housing agenda that builds wealth and assets for communities of color through homeownership, community-led innovation, and security and stability for renters.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.
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The National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA) is a national trade association dedicated to the enrichment and betterment of women and minorities who work in the real estate finance industry. As an association, we will seek to partner and leverage our relationships to provide training, education and career development resources to the real estate finance industry which align and support sustainable home ownership in communities across the country. NAMMBA’s members work in all segments of the real estate and real estate finance industry while serving in sales, operations, servicing and real estate capacities within their respective organization. NAMMBA members are from diverse backgrounds as the organization is all inclusive. A board of directors and corporate advisory board govern NAMMBA and include highly successful practitioners, entrepreneurs, and government.
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