“In her role as Executive Director of VCCDC, Ms. Garcia has been a valued and creative partner of NHSA,” says Mary Lee Widener, President and CEO of NHSA. “Ms. Garcia has been a leader in advancing the use of NHSA’s technological tools to achieve loan approvals for families throughout Ventura County. Ms Garcia’s overwhelming passion for, and depth of knowledge about, financing for affordable housing was a primary reason for inviting her to join NHSA’s board of directors.”VCCDC is an active community development lender in Ventura County. Working with local government and private sector partners, VCCDC has created affordable financing opportunities for dozens of families throughout the County. NHSA leaders say that Ms. Garcia’s membership on NHSA’s board will create new and important access to affordable home financing for dozens of families in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.CEDC is a private non-profit community development corporation that provides comprehensive housing services, through a community building approach, in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Since its incorporation in 1981, CEDC has built more than 1,000 units of affordable for-sale and multi-family rental housing, manages 440 affordable rental units, and has helped more than 250 families into homeownership through education, counseling, and lending services. CEDC is a chartered member of NeighborWorks®, a national network of more than 220 community development and affordable housing organizations. This year marks CEDC’s 26th year of operation.
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National non-profit appoints Bertha Garcia to board of directors
May 30, 2007
First NeighborWorks® America Affiliate Member to Receive NHSA Board Appointment
Santa Paula News
The Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) is proud to announce the appointment of Bertha M. Garcia to the board of directors of the Neighborhood Housing Services of America (NHSA), a national nonprofit lender based in Oakland, California, that focuses on revitalizing neighborhoods and strengthening communities across America. Ms. Garcia has been on staaff at Ventura-based CEDC for 19 years and currently also serves as the Executive Director of the Ventura County Community Development Corporation (VCCDC) and Director of CEDC’s NeighborWorks® America (NWA) Home Ownership Center (HOC). The HOC was established in 1998 to assist the greater Ventura community in purchasing and retaining homes, and offers a wide variety of free financial education classes, counseling, and mortgage loans. VCCDC is a non-profit lending subsidiary of CEDC.
NHSA (www.nhsaonline.org) is the leading provider of nonprofit secondary market capital to the community development field. The organization has developed innovative loan products and services in support of affordable single-family and multifamily residential properties. For more than 30 years, NHSA has been a resource to the NeighborWorks® network of more than 240 local nonprofits, including CEDC, in partnership with NeighborWorks® America.Ms. Garcia joins the NHSA’s 15-member board of directors. NHSA’s board members represent diverse organizations across the United States. In addition to her role on the board of directors at NHSA, Ms. Garcia will serve on both NHSA’s loan and capital development committees.Ms. Garcia is the first HOC director of an NWA affiliate to be appointed to NHSA. NeighborWorks America is a national network of more than 240 community-based organizations in 50 states creating healthy communities through the work of thousands of residents, business people, government officials and other partners.“It is with great pleasure that NHSA announces the approval of membership for Bertha M Garcia to join its board of directors,” says Ernest E. Baskette, Jr., Senior Vice President for NHSA’s Strategic Business Alliance Group and a member of VCCDC’s board of directors. “Ms Garcia received the unanimous approval of NHSA’s board and will add a valuable and important link to NHSA’s national secondary market activities in the promotion of innovative technological and loan products for families, with the resource and affordable housing needs of localities throughout the United States.”
