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Cinnaire Recognizes Juneteenth – the Oldest Known U.S. Celebration of End of Slavery – a Company Holiday
Juneteenth - a blending of the words June and nineteenth - is the oldest known U.S. celebration of the end of slavery. It commemorates June 19th, 1865, the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and ...
Read More A Message from our CEO: Cinnaire Stands in Solidarity
George Floyd, dead at the hands of the police. Breonna Taylor, dead at the hands of the police. Ahmaud Arbery, dead at the hands of vigilantes. I say their names to etch them into my heart and mind, to come ...
Read More Cinnaire Appoints Vice President, Asset Management and Executive Vice President, Operations and Corporate Risk Management
Cinnaire has announced the promotion of Ryan Robinson to Executive Vice President, Operations and Corporate Risk Management. Affordable housing industry veteran Mike Witt has joined Cinnaire as Vice President, Asset Management. In these leadership positions, Ryan and Mike will each ...
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SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Funds Available
Content provided courtesy of the Delaware Bankers Association The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (SBA PPP) is an unprecedented government initiative to provide desperately needed financial assistance to the small business community in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Banks ...
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Cinnaire Announces Closing of Funding for CDFI Friendly Bloomington Developments
The Bloomington Housing Authority announced today the closing of $17.8 million in funding for the preservation and renovation of 116 units at their Reverend E.D. Butler and Walnut Woods Communities in Bloomington, Indiana. Thanks to an allocation of $11 million ...
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Cinnaire’s Policy Pulse: The Federal COVID-19 Policy Response
Chris Neary Vice President, Policy, Research and Advocacy Cinnaire's Policy Pulse is an evolving update on policy developments, reports and trends designed to keep us informed on how federal issues and policies affect the affordable housing and community development industries. ...
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MRI Software Features Cinnaire’s COVID-19 Response as Best Practices
As the COVID-19 situation has unfolded over the past few months, businesses across the real estate industry have been faced with the need to swiftly respond to a rapidly evolving set of circumstances. Given the face-to-face nature of the industry, ...
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Cinnaire and Michigan Bankers Association Announce New LIHTC Equity Fund
Over the past 12 years, Cinnaire has partnered with the MBA Service Corporation to create five LIHTC equity funds. These five funds totaling $58 million were supported by 27 community banks to help finance the new construction or rehabilitation of ...
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COVID-19 Special Series Podcast: Addressing the Challenges Facing Affordable Housing Developers, Managers & Lenders
In this COVID-19 Special Series episode of Advancing Communities Podcast, Cinnaire CSO Jim Peffley talks with Steve Spears, CFO of Mercy Housing, a national nonprofit developer, manager, and lender of affordable housing properties. Jim and Steve discuss the challenges diverse organizations ...
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Special Series Podcast: CDFI Continuity & COVID-19
Navigating and Learning through Uncharted Territory Panel In this Special Series Episode of the Advancing Communities Podcast, Cinnaire CSO Jim Peffley digs deep into the impact of COVID-19 on CDFIs and the partners we serve. Five experienced CDFI leaders candidly share ...
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CDFI Continuity & COVID-19: Watch the Webinar Recording
In this informative CDFI Continuity & COVID-19 Webinar, five experienced CDFI leaders candidly share their strategies, best practices and experience on navigating and learning through COVID-19. View the webinar and learn their front line perspectives on: Experiences they are addressing ...
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COVID-19 Special Series Podcast: Affordable Housing Managers Address the Serious Challenges the Crisis Presents
COVID-19 has created many challenges for affordable housing owners, managers, and tenants. In this Special Series episode of Advancing Communities Podcast, Cinnaire CSO Jim Peffley digs deep into some of these challenges with Paul Spencer, President & CEO, KMG Prestige and ...
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Cinnaire/CDFI Friendly America – Free Webinar, Thursday, April 16
CDFI Continuity & COVID-19 Navigating & Learning this Uncharted Territory CDFIs are resilient, with decades of experience lending in all economic conditions. Our experience navigating the economic repercussions of the 2008 recession make CDFIs uniquely positioned to provide leadership and ...
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Lessons Learned from the 2008 Housing Crisis: Listen. Plan. Navigate. Rest. Repeat.
Over the last few weeks as Cinnaire’s leadership team has been managing through the challenges presented almost daily with the COVID 19 crisis, I’m repeatedly drawn to the fact that we are living through an unprecedented milestone in history. It ...
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Cinnaire Recognized as Best Nonprofit to Work For by the Nonprofit Times
Annual Award Program Honors the Best Employers in the Industry Cinnaire announced today the company has been recognized as a 2020 Best Nonprofit to Work For by the Nonprofit Times, the leading business publication for nonprofit management. This is the sixth ...
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Cinnaire Names New Chief Financial Officer
Cinnaire has announced Brett S. Oumedian, CPA has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective April 1st, 2020. Brett will succeed Christopher Cox who served Cinnaire since 1995 and announced his retirement in January. Brett brings more than 15 years ...
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Advancing Communities Podcast – The COVID-19 Crisis: How Housing & Community Development Fit into Washington’s Policy Response
The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a dramatic and unprecedented policy response from Washington. What does this response mean for affordable housing and community development? In this episode, Cinnaire CSO Jim Peffley is joined by a panel of national community development policy ...
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Adina Abramowitz & Mark Pinsky: CDFI Friendly America
In January, Mark Pinsky and I launched CDFI Friendly America, a new way of bringing the value of CDFIs flexible capital and know-how to America's small cities and towns. We are excited to introduce a new strategy to make it ...
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Silver Star Apartments is an 85-unit permanent supportive housing facility, providing veterans a safe, secure, and supportive place to call home. Located in Battle Creek, Michigan, Silver Star is adjacent to the Battle Creek VA Medical Center and serviced in-house by Zero Day. Zero Day offers veterans accredited vocational training, apprenticeship opportunities, supportive services, life skills mentoring, career coaching, and job placement. Cinnaire invested $16.7 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits.
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