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chfa’s 2015 community engagement events
housing forum colorado finance agency leaders. The event featured a welcome
from Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock. Educational
Housing Forum Colorado (HFC), an event series touring sessions focused on strategies and updates in home
various cities and towns, provides mortgage lending finance, asset management, multifamily finance, disaster
and real estate professionals information about local recovery, and other housing-related topics.
homeownership programs. Sponsoring organizations
include CHFA, FHA, USDA-RD, VA, and CHAC. HFC 2015 david w. herlinger
events were held in Pueblo, Denver, Grand Junction, golf tournament
Fort Morgan, and Longmont.
In its 11th year, CHFA’s annual David W. Herlinger Golf
Last year’s series achieved record participation. Pueblo Tournament raised $75,000 for Mercy Housing Colorado.
experienced a 400 percent increase in attendance, and Funds will support the nonprofit in its efforts to provide
Denver showed a nearly 40 percent boost in participation. affordable, program-enriched housing to more than 2,000
low to moderate income Coloradans, including families,
2015 housing credit summit: seniors, veterans, and people with special needs.
building partnerships
like it forward
CHFA hosted the 2015 Housing Credit Summit, a popular
biennial event. The Housing Credit Summit convened CHFA held its first-ever holiday giving Facebook campaign
community development leaders to discuss trends in in 2015 called “Like It Forward,” which benefitted two
LIHTC development, the housing credit equity market, local nonprofits. The campaign invited Facebook users
and other related industry topics. Michael Novogradac of to “like” CHFA’s page. For each new “like” of CHFA’s
Novogradac & Company LLP was the keynote speaker. Facebook page, we purchased one soup and cornbread
gift bundle from Women’s Bean Project, and donated it
mountain plains housing summit to Food Bank of the Rockies. As a result, 234 food bundles
were purchased and donated, totaling $2,796 in value.
CHFA hosted the Mountain Plains Housing Summit, an
annual gathering of the mountain region’s housing and
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