Each year, we spend the week of Valentine’s Day sharing the love for our partners who support and amplify our work at Northwest Housing Alternatives. We are so grateful to our partners across sectors who work with us to ensure everyone has a safe, stable home and opportunities to succeed.
Kicking off our Week of Gratitude, we’d like to thank Loveridge Hunt & Co PLLC, a CPA firm with whom NHA works very closely.
Our partners at Loveridge Hunt are extremely supportive and engaged in the work that we do, consistently accommodating additional audits and tax engagements as we bring new projects online. Additionally, as other audit firms have been stepping out of the affordable housing space, we have appreciated Loveridge Hunt’s continued dedication in this space.
Beyond their contributions through audits, they are consistently supportive of NHA’s mission. Thank you, Loveridge Hunt!
Arbor School of Arts & Sciences
For this year’s Week of Gratitude, the Resource Development department is excited to celebrate one of our longest running partnerships – the Arbor School of Arts and Sciences!
From penny wars to donating the profits from their annual Arbor Fest auction to collecting toys, food, and coats, we have been honored to be the recipient of the Arbor School’s generosity for decades. In fact, the students and school community have raised nearly $145,000 for the Annie Ross Housing Services and services teams at NHA over the years!
Students go beyond donating with their involvement – each year, Arbor School students visit our shelter or a property where they learn more about how homelessness affects families and what NHA does to prevent it. Their dedication to learning about this crisis intimately as well as taking action to support Oregonians in need is remarkable.
We were thrilled to present a certificate of gratitude to the students at the Arbor School this week in honor of their years of dedication and hard work. Thank you, Arbor School staff (special shoutout to Leigh), students, and parents!
NHA would like to highlight our partnership with Coles + Betts Environmental and, in particular Jill Betts. Coles + Betts is an environmental consulting group that was instrumental in our M Carter Commons housing project.
A firm dedicated to creating a clean, safe environment, their expertise and collaboration with NHA has enabled us to move forward confidently with M Carter Commons which is now about to break ground! The project will bring 63 affordable homes for low-income seniors to the Overlook neighborhood of North Portland.
M Carter Commons is an incredibly complicated project that involved environmental obstacles we needed to work through. What was needed was an expert and we found that with Jill Betts. Jill brought her years of experience and knowledge to help us understand and then plan for how to develop the site. Beyond her efficiency and deep knowledge in this area, she brought an amazing can-do spirit and commitment to the work.
In such kind words, Jill shared that she “value(s) our partnership on this project that brings much needed affordable housing to our community” and that “it is a pleasure to work with the NHA team.”
Coles +Betts went above and beyond advocating for us at every turn to make sure this project would move forward to bring more affordable housing to the City of Portland. For that and so much more, we are very grateful and would like to thank Jill and Coles + Betts as a whole for their remarkable partnership.
Northwest Pilot Project (NWPP) has been an instrumental service partner for our Emmons Place South PSH residents, providing day-to-day services to households transitioning out of houselessness. NWPP also partnered with NHA during a relocation process for residents at Rosemont. They were tasked with providing ongoing supports to our senior community during the moving process as well as with their housing stability in their new homes.
NWPP is a community-based organization with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the social service space and has been gracious in their support to NHA households when called upon. NHA is grateful to partners like NWPP because we are stronger together and can make a tangible difference in the lives of those we serve.
Thank you, NWPP, for your partnership with NHA and with your overall support in the community at large!
Crabby Beach Foundation
To round out the Week of Gratitude, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Crabby Beach Foundation. They have been supporting NHA’s programs and services through general operating grants since 2013—more than a decade!
Their steady support has allowed NHA to focus less on the administrative components of grants and more on our mission, delivering housing stability, and homelessness prevention services. Over the years, they have increased their support to become one of our largest and most impactful funders. We appreciate the trusting and dedicated work of the Crabby Beach Foundation and their many years of partnership.
Thank you, Crabby Beach Foundation!
