The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its associated problems such as chronic undernutrition, heart disease and obesity, and a national voice for the importance of health in hunger relief. Reaching across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, the CAFB partners with hundreds of community organizations to deliver 45 million pounds of food – or 35 million meals – to more than 540,000 low-income community members each year.

In Greenville, the heart and soul of the Mississippi River Delta, economic development partners have come together to save a historic property that will now serve as a catalyst for future economic growth. The redevelopment of the shuttered Sears, Roebuck & Company store, built in the 1940s, and three adjacent vacant buildings in downtown Greenville marks a major step forward for this small community – providing needed jobs in a town that faced challenging economic realities in recent years.

Northern Nevada HOPES, a Federally Qualified Health Center, has been serving patients in need since 1997. Often patients can’t afford care elsewhere, and so it wasn’t surprising when the facility recently found it had outgrown its 18,000-square-foot building in downtown Reno, Nevada. To help HOPES complete a much-needed expansion, Enhanced Community Development provided $3 million in federal and $8 million in Nevada New Markets Tax Credit allocation. This funding allowed HOPES to develop a new, approximately 37,000-square-foot building that will serve thousands more patients each year – and provide many new jobs in the process.