Training
Convening and Training for Community Stabilization
As part of the effort to help mitigate the effects of the foreclosure crisis on communities across the country, NeighborWorks America is focusing on developing tools and training to help local governments and nonprofit organizations evaluate approaches and tailor responses to the increase in foreclosures and real estate owned properties (REO). The following portfolio of courses are available at the NeighborWorks Training Institute and are meant to provide individuals and organizations with the strategies and specialized skills needed to acquire, rehab and manage or sell these properties. You can click the course to see the detailed description.
- Affordable Housing
- Asset Management
- Community & Neighborhood Revitalization
- NR231 Stabilizing Neighborhoods in a Post-Foreclosure Environment
- NR 121 Measuring the Impacts of Your Revitalization Work
- NR 365 ADVANCED CLINIC: Marketing Your Neighborhoods in Good Times and Bad
- Community Engagement
- CB 240 Engaging Neighbors in the Stabilization of Post-Foreclosure Neighborhoods
- Construction and Production Management
- CP 240 Greening Housing Rehab
- Homeownership and Community Lending
- HO 260 Counseling Borrowers who Purchase Real Estate Owned (REO) Properties
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Previous Convenings
NeighborWorks America facilitated two afternoon workshops on community stabilization at the NeighborWorks Training Institute in Chicago, IL.
- "Responsible" Approaches to Neighborhood Stabilization
- Models for REO Acquisition: Lessons from the National Community Stabilization Trust
Put Your Action Plan to Work: How to Use HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program in Your Community
At the December 2008 NeighborWorks Training Institute 200 practitions gathered to learn how to put a HUD Neighborhood Stabilization Program action plan to work. The goal of the all-day forum was to help practitioners understand how to effectively use the $3.92 billion in funding from the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Speakers will include Craig Nickerson from the National Community Stabilization Trust, Daniel Kildee from the Genesee County Land Bank, and Bruce Katz from the Brookings Institution, as well as many other industry experts from states and localities.
Building Stable Communities: A Regional Workshop
On November 17-18, 2008, the NeighborWorks America partnered with the National Vacant Properties Campaign and the Federal Reserve System to convene Building Stable Communities: A Regional Neighborhood Stabilization Workshop. Hosted by the Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, this day and a half workshop brought together nonprofit organizations and local governments from Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama to learn about new resources and innovative strategies in community stabilization from experts around the country. The workshop was facilitated by Mike Shubert and presenters included Sharon Price of the National Housing Conference, Alan Mallach, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Ann Houston of Chelsea Neighborhood Developers and the Massachusetts Foreclosed Properties Task Force. Attendees participated in a series of panel discussions, then broke into small facilitated working groups to begin to develop or refine neighborhood stabilization action plans for their communities.