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Community Building and Organizing
SPNHS is a non-profit neighborhood revitalization and community housing development organization (CHDO) formed in 1980. It was established to stimulate reinvestment in blighted neighborhoods through a working partnership of residents, government, the business community, lending institutions, and several national partners. SPNHS relies on research, uses market studies, conducts focus groups, initiates model block projects, and promotes clean-up campaigns to collect data, fashion proven strategies, identify “best practices,” foster pride, and build active involvement. SPNHS collaborates with various agencies and organizations to achieve strategic crime prevention, educational, cultural, and economic development goals related to its mission.
The result of the agency’s revitalization efforts are measurable by the changes that have occurred or are in progress in targeted neighborhoods, such as Old Southeast, Roser Park, and Bartlett Park in St. Petersburg. Old Southeast and Roser Park were early projects in the agency’s history, while revitalization efforts in Bartlett Park have been ongoing for 15 years. Upcoming neighborhood revitalization activities will focus on the Childs Park and Campbell Park neighborhoods of south St. Petersburg.
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City of St. Petersburg Homebuyer Assistance Programs
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Florida Housing Finance Corporation: The mission of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation is to help our fellow Floridians obtain safe, decent housing that might otherwise be unavailable to them.
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Front Porch Community Development Association, Inc. (St. Petersburg) has a mission to assist individuals, businesses and communities with economic development.
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Money Management International is a nonprofit, community service organization that provides professional financial guidance, counseling, community-wide educational programs, and debt management assistance.
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Money Smart is an education program of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), created to help adults outside of the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.
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Pinellas Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International.
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St. Petersburg Housing Authority has a mission to provide a variety of safe, sanitary, accessible, decent and affordable housing to eligible citizens of the City of St. Petersburg, while enhancing and promoting resident self-sufficiency.
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Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing
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State of Florida-Department of Community Affairs
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The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, livable communities through the integration of affordable housing built responsibly and the preservation and restoration of community trees.
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the nation's housing agency committed to increasing homeownership, particularly among minorities; creating affordable housing opportunities for low-income Americans; and supporting the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and people living with AIDS. The Department also promotes economic and community development, and enforces the nation's fair housing laws.
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The Warrick Dunn Foundation is dedicated to providing opportunities for economically-disadvantaged single parents and children who have demonstrated a commitment to achieve financial independence and stability
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