Location: New Orleans, LA

It is the mission of Gulf Coast Housing Partnership (GCHP) to revitalize the Gulf Coast through transformative development. Working in partnership with public, nonprofit, and private entities, GCHP creates vibrant, high quality communities which are socially and economically integrated affordable and sustainable.

GCHP was originally founded in 2006 by the Housing Partnership Network (HPN) in close collaboration with local civic leadership, network members from the Gulf Coast region and national financial institutions and foundations.  With seed capital provided by HPN and Enterprise Community Partners, GCHP strives to leverage its balance sheet on behalf of the partners and ventures to which it commits. 

GCHP is a social enterprise that reflects the organizational learning and experience of the most successful developers, long-term owners and lenders in the Housing Partnership Network (“the Network”). Our business strategy is based on building a financially sound organization whose leadership is focused on deploying company assets, in partnership with other entities and communities, to achieve measurable and productive results both immediate and long-term. GCHP melds talent, resources and commitment with sustainable productivity, which has positioned GCHP as a catalytic housing production partner in communities across the Gulf Coast region.  To learn more about GCHP, please visit:  http://www.gchp.net

Location: New York, NY

Public Interest Projects (PIP) brings together the work of philanthropic institutions, nonprofit groups and other public interest organizations who share a vision and commitment to creating a just society. PIP does this by making grants to nonprofits through its collaborative funds, fiscal sponsorships and special projects on behalf of foundations and donors committed to issues related to social justice and human rights.

Through its collaborative funds, PIP brings together donors with like-minded philanthropic goals and pools their resources, thereby maximizing the impact of their funding. PIP also provides strategic direction, day-to-day management, administrative support and financial oversight to a range of specialized groups and grantees working in the area of social justice.  Finally, PIP offers fiscal sponsorship services to philanthropic affinity groups that do not have nonprofit status so that they too can broaden their funding options and advance their causes.  PIP has experienced tremendous growth due to its success and plans to continue to increase their impact going forward.  To learn more about PIP, please visit our website:  http://www.publicinterestprojects.org/