JPH Associates provides administrative support to the Nonprofit Housing Roundtable of Central Florida, at the direction of the Orlando Realtor Foundation. Over the past four months, these two nonprofits have worked together on a major outreach to the Central Florida community. The outreach effort included a series of listening sessions. These sessions accounted for over eleven hours of community input/feedback and involved over 80 stakeholders. Participants included representatives from the development, banking and governmental communities, as well as homeowners and renters. A copy of the final report from this initiative can be found on the Roundtable’s website at www.housingroundtable.org.

JPH & Associates continues to be involved in successful grant applications for two local nonprofits. JPH & Associates helped to procure $10,000 in grant funds from Wells Fargo Bank for the Florida Real Estate Foundation. Of this total, $5,000 will be used for preliminary planning for an affordable single family development in the Holden Heights area of Orange County. The second $5,000 will be used to support ongoing activities of the Nonprofit Housing Roundtable of Central Florida, which is now supported by the Florida Real Estate Foundation. The Roundtable is a membership association that is committed to strengthening inclusive affordable communities through the production and preservation of quality housing.

The second local nonprofit is IDignity, which JPH & Associates has been assisting staff with selected grant applications over the past year. Recently, three new grants were awarded totaling $18,500. This brings the total grant awards, which JPH & Associates was involved, to over $234,000. These new grants and previous awards will help IDignity continue to do their good work in the area of identification procurement for the poor in our community.