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Center for Community Self-Help, Self-Help Ventures Fund

Location:
Durham, North Carolina
Website:
http://www.self-help.org

Grants to Center for Community Self-Help, Self-Help Ventures Fund

  • $1,500,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — To create refinance mortgage products to assist homeowners in Chicago at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure.

  • $15,000,000Active Strategy

    2008 (Duration 19 years, 3 months)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Program-Related Investment to support the creation of a new lease-purchase mortgage product, as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project.

  • $1,000,000Active Strategy

    1997 (Inactive Grant)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Program-related investment to increase home ownership opportunities for low-income residents of North Carolina (over 15 years).

  • $2,000,000Active Strategy

    1997 (Inactive Grant)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Program-related investment to increase home ownership opportunities for low-income residents of North Carolina (over 15 years).

  • $1,500,000Active Strategy

    1992 (Duration 26 years, 2 months)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Program-related investment to expand technical and financial assistance to business and housing projects for rural and low-income individuals and to help create a statewide network of community development organizations committed to economic justice.

  • $1,500,000Active Strategy

    1988 (Duration 30 years, 4 months)

    Impact Investments

    DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — Program-related investment to expand the ability to provide technical and financial assistance to business and housing projects that address the needs of rural and low-income individuals in North Carolina, and to create a statewide network of community development organizations committed to economic justice.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Center for Community Self-Help, Self-Help Ventures Fund $22,500,000 between 1978 and 2016.

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