With 42 years of experience in addressing America’s massive shortage of affordable rental homes, Enterprise is the only national nonprofit that does it all — solutions, capital, and community development — under one roof.
Vision
A country where home and community are stepping stones to more.
Mission
To make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging, as well as platforms for resilience and upward mobility.
How We Work
Our Impact Areas
With this feedback loop and clear alignment as our foundation, our teams work together across six impact areas to create meaningful change for systems, people, and communities.
- Preservation and Production
- Racial Equity
- Resilience
- Upward Mobility
- Partner Sustainability and Growth
- Resident Success
Our Capabilities
When you support our work and partner with us, we bring a full range of capabilities to the table to maximize our impact and reach our goals.
- Products for Investors
- Financing for Developers
- Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
- Policy
- Advisory Services and Technical Assistance
- Program Design and Evaluation
- Development, Property Management, and Resident Services
Our Strategic Plan
Enterprise's 2020-2025 Strategic Plan reflects what we know from 42 years of fighting for affordable housing: home and community matter most.
How We’re Organized
Enterprise is organized around three central goals: to increase housing supply, advance racial equity, and build resilience and upward mobility. To achieve these goals, we operate across three divisions — Solutions, Capital and Community Development — that unify and leverage a family of purpose-built affiliates to execute our work.
Our Solutions division operates a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nationwide with programmatic, policy, advisory, and capacity-building arms at the national, state, and local level, working in more than 700 communities and in collaboration with thousands of partners in the nonprofit, public, and for-profit sectors.
Our Capital division comprises several subsidiaries: a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that invests and asset manages a range of tax credits and equity; a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is one of the country’s largest publicly rated Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI); and an equity interest in Bellwether Enterprise, through which we also provide access to conventional mortgage products.
Our Community Development division operates a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is one of the largest nonprofit owners and developers of affordable homes in the Mid-Atlantic and is the sixth largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in the U.S.
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