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This award was created to honor businesses that seek to build
and improve relationships and conditions in their own communities.
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.
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