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Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has selected Eric Price as its senior vice president for Neighborhood Markets, responsible for oversight and guidance of the Center for Commercial Revitalization, the New Markets Tax Credit initiative, the Community Safety Initiative, the Community Investment Collaborative for Kids and the Youth Development and Recreation initiative. For the past five years, Price served as deputy mayor for Planning and Economic Development in Washington, DC. Price has also served as director of housing production at the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and as development officer at the Shore Bank Development Corporation.

Habitat for Humanity New York has named Carey Shea as its chief operating officer. Since 1997, Shea has been with the Surdna Foundation where she was most recently the program director for community revitalization. Previously, she was the program director for the National Community Building Initiative of LISC and the executive director and founder of the East New York Urban Youth Corps.

Jennifer C. Lavorel is the new policy director for Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future. She was recently a housing policy consultant for the National Housing Conference, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and the Community Preservation and Development Corporation. Prior to her consulting work, Lavorel served as director of operations for the Millennial Housing Commission. She worked with Henry Cisneros, Jack Kemp, Nicolas Retsinas and Kent Colton in preparing “Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy,” soon to be available through Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Advocates for Homeless Families, Inc. selected Gregory and Elizabeth Galaida to be its new executive directors. The couple will share the responsibilities. The Galaidas have done extensive volunteer work in the areas of housing and homelessness over the past 15 years, in addition to their previous professional careers, where Greg was the human resources manager for the Council of Foundations and Elizabeth was chief development officer for the NEA Foundation.

The Rockefeller Foundation named Dr. Judith Rodin as its new president, succeeding Gordon Conway. She will assume her duties in March 2005. Rodin served as president of the University of Pennsylvania. She was the first female to head an Ivy League institution and is also the first to lead the Rockefeller Foundation.

Kevin Parker joined National Community Reinvestment Coalition as a fair lending specialist assigned to the National Anti-Predatory Lending Consumer Rescue Fund, specializing in foreclosure prevention, loss mitigation, mediation and alternative dispute resolution matters. Parker has more than 10 years of real estate experience and has worked with lenders, lawyers and homeowners on foreclosure, mortgage lending and bankruptcy matters.

After 25 years, Don Wolff is retiring as the senior vice president and community investment officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. Wolff was the FHLB of NY’s original community investment officer for the Affordable Housing and the Community Investment Programs and over the years has help the bank to reach many successes. Wolff is a member of the boards of the Rutgers University Graduate School of Management and the Montclair State University Business School. He also serves on the board of the National Housing Conference.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom named Matthew Franklin as director of the Mayor’s Office on Housing. Franklin recently served as director of California’s Department of Housing and Community Development. He was also deputy chief of staff to the HUD Secretary and deputy federal housing commissioner under the Clinton Administration.

Housing and Neighborhood Development Services, Inc. received the (New Jersey) Governor’s Excellence in Housing Award for its groundbreaking work in returning abandoned and deteriorated housing to productive reuse and revitalizing neighborhoods. www.handsinc.org.

Poverty and Race Research Action Council has prepared and posted an introductory research guide on community organizing, which will be helpful to students, organizers, researchers and advocates not familiar with the basics of community organizing.www.prrac.org.

Neighborhood Reinvestment’s 2004 Dorothy Richardson Award winners are Pamela Cates, Gwinnett Housing Resource Partnership, Norcross, GA; Meg Grande, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY; James K. Howard, Pasadena Neighborhood Housing Services, Pasadena, CA; Maye Johnson, Project Renew, Fort Wayne, IN; Mishell Lilly, West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation, Providence, RI; Andrea Pardo, El Centro, Inc., Kansas City, KS; Kerra Thurston, Community Housing Partners Corporation, Inc., Charlottesville, VA; and Cleola Williams, Avenue Community Development Corporation, Houston, TX. www.nw.org.

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). Called the Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance (CHETA) Initiative, the grant aims to strengthen customized employment and permanent housing services so that chronically homeless people with disabilities may live, work and fully participate in their communities. CSH will work in partnership with Advocates for Human Potential to provide intensive employment-related technical assistance to the five September 2003 awardees of the department’s “Ending Chronic Homelessness Through Employment and Housing” grants: Worksystems, Inc., Portland, OR; the Boston Private Industry Council, Boston, MA; the Private Industry Council, San Francisco, CA; the Indianapolis Private Industry Council, Indianapolis, IN; and the Workforce Development Division of the Community Development Department, City of Los Angeles, CA. www.csh.org.