The Finance Committee oversee the audit process, operating performance and metrics, as well as cash flow projections, investments and capital. Members have expertise in CDFI and nonprofit operations.
Chief Financial Officer, Aeon
Finance Committee
Caroline is responsible for Aeon’s real estate asset management, finance and accounting functions. She has expertise in developing management systems that ensure the long‐term viability of assets and monitor organizational risk factors. Since 2007, Caroline has been a member of the STRENGTH MATTERS CFOWorking Group which has developed a series of white papers on external reporting best practices for the nonprofit affordable housing industry. Caroline has a degree in accounting and a CPA. She has been with Aeon since 1998, an organization with over 2,200 units of affordable rental housing.
Managing Director, Wells Fargo Community Lending and Investment, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Megan Teare has been working in the community development field for 25 years. She is currently a managing director with the Wells Fargo Community Lending and Investment group where she manages the program that provides enterprise-level capital to community development financial institutions (CDFIs), minority depository institutions (MDIs), and nonprofit housing developers. Megan also serves as a board member of NeighborWorks Capital. Before joining Wells Fargo, she served as senior loan officer at the McAuley Institute and as a consultant to non-profit housing developers. She has an undergraduate degree in architectural history from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Virginia.
Retired Executive Director, Cambridge Neighborhood Apartment & Housing Services
Finance Committee
Loan Committee
Mr. Daly has 30+ years of community development experience and, prior to his retirement, was most recently responsible for the operations of a community development corporation in Cambridge, MA., an affiliate of Neighborworks America with a focus on the development of homeownership and rental housing, two lending and rehab programs - one for owner-occupied 1-4 family and the other for privately owned multi-family properties, and an asset management program. Under his leadership, their rental portfolio grew from 17 units to over 1,000 units. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Community Economic Development and Assistance Corporation, a Massachusetts based CDFI.
Director of Lending, Housing Assistance Council
Eileen Neely joins the NeighborWorks Capital Finance Committee with over 30 years of experience in finance and impact investment. She is currently the Director of Lending at Housing Assistance Council where she leads lending and community investment functions to provide low-cost capital to local nonprofits, for-profits, and local governments developing affordable housing in rural communities throughout the United States. Eileen has consulted for housing and impact investment organizations across the country and previously worked as Director of Capital Innovation at Living Cities, the Director of Strategy for the District of Columbia Housing Authority, the COO of the Fresno Housing Authority, and Director of Public Entity Lending at Fannie Mae.
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Community Loan Fund
Finance Committee
Charlotte Crow is senior vice president of the Enterprise Community Loan Fund, responsible for borrowing capital to support lending activities, investor relations, cash management and general treasury functions. During her tenure, Enterprise Community Loan Fund joined the FHLB of Atlanta, was rated for the first time by S&P Global Ratings and issued a $50 million general obligation bond in 2018. She brings almost 30 years of banking, finance and treasury experience to her role. Prior to joining Enterprise in May 2006, Charlotte spent 14 years at Signet Bank in Richmond, VA, where she was in charge of the asset and liability management group and served as a member of the Asset and Liability Committee. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Kenyon College and MBA from College of William and Mary with a concentration in finance.
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Finance Committee
Grace is the lead banker for the Community Development sector within the public capital markets including execution of the CDFI Sector IPO in the Public Capital Markets including CDFI Debt IPOs for LISC, Enterprise Community Loan Fund, LIIF and BlueHub Loan Fund as well as Freddie Mac’s first Social Bond with Impact Community Capital. She also is the non-profit lead banking coverage includes CDFIs, affordable housing developers, charter school networks, private K-12s, universities and foundations. Recently she participated in the ground-breaking $1 Billion Ford Foundation bond issuance and MacArthur Foundation bond issuance. She has earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College majoring in Government and Philosophy and a MBA from Yale University School of Management.
The Loan Committee reviews all loans and is composed of experienced NeighborWorks network developers and community development bankers who are familiar with affordable housing and community development finance.
Chief Operating Officer and EVP, DreamKey Partners
Loan Committee
Fred Dodson, Jr. is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of DreamKey Partners (formerly Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership), leading the organization's real
estate development and construction operations
teams. Before joining the Housing Partnership in 1997, Dodson gained experience directing the Hospitality House of Boone, North Carolina homeless shelter as well as the New River Valley Habitat for Humanity Affiliate and the Montgomery County Community Shelter, both located in Virginia. Mr. Dodson earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Appalachian State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Director, Vector Fund, Rural Community Assistance Corporation
Loan Committee
Mr. Carroll has more than 40 years of community development leadership and lending experience in public, nonprofit, and corporate environments. He is currently Director, Vector Fund for RCAC, rejoining the organization in 2022 after previously serving as their Lending & Housing director between 2008 and 2017.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Carroll was Director of Lending for Rural LISC. He has also served as Director of Multifamily Programs at California Housing Finance Agency, Housing and Loan Fund Director at Rural Community Assistance Corporation. He was director of sales and marketing for Fannie Mae Multifamily and director of its Sacramento Partnership Office, where he developed local initiatives to support Fannie Mae’s $20 billion/five-year investment plan for the California Central Valley. He had a long tenure as Senior Vice President with Bank of America, where he managed community development lending and product development. He began his career as a VISTA volunteer and then became a full-time employee at Self-Help Enterprises.
Principal, BSI
Loan Committee
Since 2010 Mr. FitzGibbon is the Managing Director and Chief Operations Officer for Talmer Bank and Trust (formerly First Michigan Bank), a $2.8 billion privately held community bank with 60 offices in Southern Wisconsin and Eastern Michigan. His role includes the acquisition and integration of failed banks into a well-capitalized holding company. Previously he was Executive Vice President of the $10 billion Chicago-based MBFinancial Bank. His community activities include serving as President of Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (2004-2008), Director of the Woodstock Institute and Chairman of ACCION-Chicago. He is also a member of the Regional Lender Advisory Board for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and a board director of the New York based Wall Street Without Walls.
Principle, Law Offices of Peter C. Quigley
Loan Committee
Mr. Quigley has over 25 years of affordable housing finance experience. His legal practice represents affordable housing clients undertaking new construction and preservation projects. He previously served as General Counsel at Chicago Equity Fund and Associate General Counsel at National Equity Fund. His practice represents a wide range of real estate transactions including for-sale, multifamily, historic and commercial projects using New Markets, HUD, LIHTC, FHA and commercial financing.
President & CEO, Levanta Residential
Tayani Odeleye is the President & CEO of Levanta Residential, the single-family development affiliate of The Integral Group. The mission of this new company is to increase homeownership and wealth building in Black and brown communities using various approaches to products and services. One approach embraces new urbanism planning principles by developing single-family neighborhoods based on “missing middle” building solutions. Another creates a pool of new landlords and their rent-to-own purchasers, creating a regular flow of renters who transition to ownership. Tayani most recently worked for the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, leading all real estate development and asset management functions for the company. The firm’s pipeline and portfolio included a wide mix of single-family and multifamily properties. She has a long history of managing diverse teams that include a core staff as well as an array of consultants and contractors who perform land acquisition, site analysis, design and engineering, construction, property rental and sales, and resident-centered activities. Tayani is passionate about utilizing specialized financing tools from both the public and private sectors to create and preserve affordable housing in mixed-income environments. She has a depth of experience in sourcing subsidies from local and national funding programs, and then combining these dollars with private capital to support impactful community development transactions. She sees affordable housing initiatives as critical components of stable mixed-income neighborhoods, especially in urban spaces with burgeoning gentrification.
Vice President - Acquisitions, Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
Emmanuel Kinard is currently Vice President of Acquisitions at Hispanic Housing Development Corporation (HHDC) where he is focused on acquiring and preserving multifamily affordable housing communities in the Midwest and Puerto Rico. He also oversees the long-term physical and financial planning for HHDC’s portfolio. Prior to joining HHDC, Emmanuel worked for a tax credit equity syndicator underwriting LIHTC equity investments; a CDFI originating debt for multifamily affordable housing communities across the Midwest; and a State Housing Finance Agency underwriting the allocation of 9% and 4% LIHTC. Throughout his affordable housing career, he has contributed to the creation of 3,600 affordable homes, underwrote $102 million of LIHTC equity investments, and originated $123 million of debt.
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