The Jim and Patty Rouse award is given to individuals who have provided outstanding service to Jubilee Support Alliance and Jubilee Housing. The award is named after two original founders and longtime supporters of Jubilee, Jim and Patty Rouse.

This year the Jim and Patty Rouse Award was given to Greta Perry for her dedication to Jubilee and its mission, her contributions extend over more than 20 years.  It was through Jim Rouse that Greta found her way to Jubilee and his dedication to the work of Jubilee carries on today with Greta’s volunteer efforts.  Working as an employee for Jubilee back in 1984, Greta assisted Jubilee in the purchase of the Euclid building and provided the predevelopment work for the Festival Center.  Greta was working for Jubilee back when Jim and Patty were very active in the organization. Jim and Patty attended board meetings and could be seen leading tours for Enterprise through the neighborhood and rolling up their sleeves to work directly with the staff and residents of Jubilee.  

Greta has continued her volunteer efforts for Jubilee over the last 20 years, supporting all fourteen Jubilee Work Day events, adopting a Jubilee family each Christmas, putting a volunteer team together to prepare and furnish a Jubilee unit for a family relocated by Hurricane Katrina.  Greta has served on the Jubilee Support Alliance board and as President in 2002-2003. She continues as an active Council of Advisors to JSA and is working as a volunteer directly with Jubilee Housing on the construction of the current Jubilee renovation project.  Greta has always been there for the call from JSA and Jubilee to support their mission and she serves as a dedicated leader to the organization.

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The Jubilee Support Alliance was proud to present the 2006 Corporate Community Service Award to Enterprise Community Partners. Through the mission of Enterprise, we find daily examples of how ordinary people can do extraordinary things. But there was nothing ordinary about the young women of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., back in 1972. Their tenacity, strength, will power and vision were the catalyst not only for Jubilee Housing, but Enterprise as well. 

These women wanted to do something – to create decent affordable housing for the low-income people in their community. And "no" was not in their vocabulary, even from a respected, renowned developer like James Rouse. With his advice, three years, $1 million and 50,000 sweat equity hours later, the Adams Morgan community had 90 new decent affordable homes … and a new community development organization called Jubilee Housing Inc. And Jubilee Housing did more than just build new homes. They helped other organizations replicate their efforts in communities across the city. And as board members of this unique nonprofit and witnesses to what “ought to be done,” Jim and Patty Rouse found their calling – to take this model to a national level.

And since that pivotal moment, Enterprise has grown to be one of the nation’s leading national nonprofits in affordable housing and community development, investing more than $7 billion in communities across the country since its founding in 1982. As a result, every 80 minutes someone in the United States moves into a home that Enterprise helped create.

Jubilee Support Alliance commends Enterprise for their commitment and dedication to community improvement.