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This holiday season, excitement ran high at La Posada when Jenni Rivera, called the queen of banda music, paid a personal visit to the residence. After touring the affordable housing program for single mothers and their children run by New Economics for Women, Jenni donated $10,000 and pledged her ongoing support.
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Congratulations to the 2009 Jorge Jackson Scholarship Recipients.
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Over 250 people attended the NEW Home Rescue Fair on June 27, 2009 in Panorama City, California.
The Alliance for Stabilizing our Communities organized the event to help provide local residents with the tools and resources they need to make informed decisions.
Participants were invited to bring their loan documents and other financial information to get advice in English and Spanish from industry experts.
NEW will be following up with attendees.
On May 14, 2009, NEW honored five remarkable women.
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On September 11, 2008, Los Angeles City Councilmember Dennis Zine, representatives from New Economics for Women and the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, along with community leaders from Canoga Park celebrated the groundbreaking for the third and final phase of the Tierra Del Sol Redevelopment Project - a much anticipated Community Center!
For complete description, see profile. 
The National Advocacy Group La Raza adds a focus on health such as dietary
and lifestyle issues to its familiar concerns such as jobs and immigration.
LA TImes - La Raza Convention adds Focus on Health July 10 ,2006
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Leticia Andueza
landueza@neworg.us
(213) 483-2060 x310
As the Los Angeles based member of a national consortium, New Economics for Women (NEW) will be receiving HUD funds to purchase, repair and sell one hundred (100) foreclosed properties in the San Fernando Valley…The Neighborhood Stabilization Funding will help make dreams come true for many families in San Fernando Valley,” commented NEW Executive Director Maggie Cervantes.
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Kim Baldonado, Anchor Reporter KNBC 4; Maggie Cervantes, NEW, Janet Lamkin, Bank of America State President & Councilman Ed Reyes at the Bank of America Awards Ceremony on Oct. 28, 2008 at the Los Angeles River Center
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently recognized NEW along with the Chrysalis Center, Inner-City Arts and Para Los Niños as its 2008 Neighborhood Builders. The award comes with $200,000 in unrestricted grant funding as well as sponsorship of the executive director and an emerging leader from the organization to participate in a leadership development program sponsored by Bank of America for nonprofit leaders across the country and London.
November 2007 - Spanish
Running Time: 3:28
Click here to watch the interview video.
The trailblazing work of New Economics for Women has not gone unnoticed.
NEW has received awards and recognition at the local, state and national level.
Awards, Recognition, Councils & Commissions
On November 16, 2007, the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies presented the 2007 HOME Excellence Award to The Los Angeles Housing Department for its role in financing New Economics for Women's Tierra Del Sol project. This is the third recent award for Tierra del Sol, following the Charles L. Edison Tax Credit award and recognition as Best Family Development by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine.
Tierra del Sol was named among the winners in the 12th annual Charles I. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards. These national awards are presented to the most outstanding Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties in four categories Metropolitan/Urban, Rural, Senior and Special Needs properties. Tierra del Sol was the winner in the Metropolitan/Urban category.
Tierra wins Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award Press Release
Tierra del Sol was named best family development in the Affordable Housing Finance magazine's 2006 Reader's Choice Awards for the nation's best affordable housing developments. Tierra del Sol was profiled in the magazine's August 2006 and December 2006 issues.
www.housingfinance.com
When NEW Economics for Women, or NEW, the developer of Tierra del Sol, began accepting applications, it set off a stampede.
More than 1,000 families applied for the 119 apartments. Today there are 600 families on the waiting list...
Los Angeles Times - Excerpts from “Six 'Dreamers' Find a Home”, August 29, 2005
A first-of-its-kind, $53 mil apartment complex that combines homes with a charter elementary school opened
Thursday as "the Club Med of Affordable Housing"...
Los Angeles Daily News - "School-house project comes to fruition", October 20, 2005
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