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Agua Caliente Clippers recognize CORE Montclair residents
It was the final game of the inaugural season for the Agua Caliente Clippers. The new NBA G league team kickedoff the season in November, serving as a development team for the Los Angeles Clippers. With the Citizens Business Bank Arena as their home court, the...
How SparkPoint helps families in Anaheim move from homeless to home again
It started with a cup of coffee each day. Martha and her husband never considered their daily cup of java from the local gas station to be a luxury. But they were now living out of their car with their son and daughter, and every penny mattered.
Arts Foundation recognizes top benefactors
On a recent Saturday evening, the Rancho Cucamonga Community and Arts Foundation recognized three supporters for their dedication to the mission of the Foundation. The awardees were honored at a reception held prior to a Foundation-sponsored performance at the Lewis...
Seniors on fixed income are stretched to make ends meet
We’ve relied on them our entire lives. The waiter in our favorite restaurant, the childcare worker, and the package delivery driver. They’ve finished their working years and are now supposed to be enjoying retirement and a life of leisure.
Anonymous donor steps up to match up to $100,000 in donations to Hope Through Housing Foundation
National Community Renaissance, also known as National CORE, a respected nonprofit community builder, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and the individuals who created the organization
How one program brought a boy from almost homeless to homeowner
Steven Crosby was 12 years old when he and his mother moved into the Monterey Village apartment community in Rancho Cucamonga. It was 1996, and they were transitioning out of a very difficult time. Steven recently had been reunited with his mother who was working...
Finding Hope through Housing for neighbors
by Gregory Bradbard President, Hope through Housing Foundation Think for a moment about the last time that you didn’t need a place to sleep at night. Other than choosing to sleep in a tent while camping, most of us have a difficult time remembering a time when we...
A Life Transformed: Moving here ‘just made my life perfect’
Valerie Aguilar is an honor student, a member of her high school scholarship club, Bible club and marine biology club, and will attend the University of California-Santa Barbara next fall in her quest to become an environmental engineer.
A Life Transformed: How Live-Work Spaces are Helping Building Karina Orozco’s American Dream
EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Karina Orozco stops in mid-sentence, emotions taking her to a place she’d been trying to avoid. “It’s hard, but I would do anything for my children,” she says through her tears. “As parents, we don’t take days off. We don’t get sick. We do...
Lives Transformed: Giving back after years of desperation and homelessness
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Living homeless in “the field,” raising her young daughter by whatever means she could, Lisa Ponder often wondered if she would ever again have a roof over her head. Life in a tent – surrounded by others who, like you, had lost just about...
National CORE receives more than $2 million in AHP funding to support affordable housing development in Southern California
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – National Community Renaissance (National CORE), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit community builders, was awarded more than $2 million in grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program (AHP). The money will be used...
Oakcrest Heights receives tax credit allocation of $15.8 million; Construction to begin before the end of the year
YORBA LINDA, Calif. – National Community Renaissance (National CORE), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit community builders, will receive more than $15.8 million in federal tax-credit financing which will yield more than $17 million in equity financing to help...
San Diego County: Mission Cove receives more than $1.4 million in AHP funding to support affordable housing development
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – Mission Cove, a 100 percent affordable multi-generational apartment home community now under construction, was awarded more than $1.4 million in grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program (AHP) Mission Cove consists of 150...
CORE CEO: Lack of affordable senior housing is a national health crisis; policies to integrate housing and supportive services must become priority
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – A new report that warns of dire consequences if the housing needs of America’s growing senior population aren’t met underscores one of our country’s most pressing public health concerns, the head of one of the nation’s largest nonprofit...
Three National CORE, Hope through Housing team members honored with Bright Lights Awards
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – Three National Community Renaissance (National CORE) and Hope through Housing Foundation team members were honored by the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH) for outstanding achievement in the area of affordable...