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*: > • <br />^^f'4 <br />:vwX'^*y; <br />?l'£\ <br />i-r.. <br />[^b^; <br />:; «* <br />n-V»| ■« <br />.’^ -I <br />m <br />%, <br />.fj.. <br />Ife- <br />nIs. <br />-'5?- ,S:ii0A <br />■:p>’-irn^^'- <br />.1*: ■,,»!•; . <br />0.i::*-r <br />’Mi'- <br />: u\'» <br />0r;,l <br />' r^ ' <br />’^f'-;J,J <br />s:V>> <br />p^u^y ■ <br />Founded Community Builders, a new nonprofit corporation established to provide long <br />term affordable housing and economic opportunity for low income households. <br />Established an informal agreement with Project in Pride for Living to jointly pursue the <br />development of low income housing projects in our service area. <br />WHHS assisted in obtaining funds from the special needs housing program of the <br />Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and acted as the general contractor using this $22,000 <br />grant to rehabilitate a single family home to be used by homeless families as shelter. This <br />project was a collaborative effort with the City of Hopkins and Simpson Transitional <br />Housing. <br />Collaborated with the City of Hopkins on a successful application to the department of <br />housing and urban development for a $100,000 HOPE I Planning Grant to empower public <br />housing residents in hopkins to become homeowners. This grant will be used to develop a <br />resident organization, study the feasibility of homeownership, provide training and <br />counseling for homebuying, identify ways to provide economic self-sufficiency and assess <br />rehabilitation needs of housing to be purchased. <br />WHHS obtained funding commitments from the private industry councils of Hennepin, <br />Scott and Carver counties to support the development and printing of an updated <br />edition of “Basic Tools: Survival Skills for the Unemployed and Underemployed". <br />As pan of our efforts at providing coordination, WHHS actively participates in <br />organizations and coalition. Some examples where staff are on the Board of Directors are <br />the Minnesota Housing Partnership, the Minnesota Counril of Non-Profits, the Minnesota <br />Council of Local Energy Officials, the Bridge, Employment Action Center, the Minnesota <br />Community Action Association, etc. <br />After a several year information gathering and vision development process, WHHS <br />completed a five-year long range plan which will shape our direction and activities over the <br />next five years. As part of this process we developed a values statement for the <br />organization. The development of the long range plan was a participatory process with <br />ideas gathered from many parts of the community. <br />im., .