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* Plymouth Apartments
The tenants of the 74-unit Plymouth Apartments at 1236 11th Street, NW will exercise their first right of refusal by purchasing their building.  They will be joint owners along with Manna CDC and the National Housing Trust. Most of the residents are from Central America. The property will be renovated and maintained as affordable rental housing.   LISC provided a $3,000,000 acquisition and predevelopment loan and a $41,013 Recoverable Grant for predevelopment activities.  (ONE DC-Formerly Manna CDC)

Arthur Flemming Senior Services Center
Renovation of three adjoining properties to provide permanent program space for Emmaus Services for the Aging. Construction is complete, and a portion of the space is also leased to inter-faith and social justice organizations. LISC provided a $400,000 construction loan and $200,000 permanent loan. (Emmaus Services for the Aging)

Thurgood Marshall Center
Renovation and conversion of the Anthony Bowen YMCA building at 1816 12th Street, NW into the Thurgood Marshall Center. The Center houses the operations of FLOC, the Shaw Heritage Trust, Inc. and other nonprofit tenants. LISC provided a $475,000 construction loan. (Thurgood Marshall Center, Inc.)

Logan Court
Redevelopment of 5 Victorian townhouse shells, 1 small three-story apartment building and 6 vacant lots into 18 rehabbed, and 15 newly constructed condominium units at 11th and O Street. All units have been sold. LISC provided a $400,000 construction loan. (Manna, Inc.)

Riggs and S Street
Purchase and rehabilitation of 17 publicly and privately owned properties under the HomeSight Program. Homes were completed. LISC provided a $22,000 loan and $263,000 guarantee. (Manna, Inc.)

Florian Gardens Cooperative- 9th and Peabody
Tenant sponsored conversion including rehabilitation of 3 adjacent buildings into a 40 unit limited equity cooperative. Units are occupied. LISC provided a $316,000 loan. (WISH)

1425 T Street Cooperative
Tenant sponsored conversion including substantial rehabilitation and reconfiguration of a 40-unit apartment building located at 1425 T Street, NW into a 32-unit, limited-equity cooperative. LISC provided a $33,000 recoverable grant, a $200,000 construction loan and a $25,000 interest write-down grant. (WISH)

919 L Street Cooperative –1919 L Street
Tenant sponsored conversion and substantial rehabilitation into a 24 unit limited equity cooperative. LISC provided a $75,000 loan. (WISH)

Whitelaw Apartments
Purchase and substantial rehabilitation of Whitelaw Hotel. Financing included historic tax credits as well as low-income tax credits provided by LISC's affiliate, the National Equity Fund (NEF). The Whitelaw was the first non-profit sponsored tax credit project in the District of Columbia. The Whitelaw became operational in 1992 and offers a mix of 35, 1-2-and 3-bedroom rental units. (Manna, Inc.)

Shaw Neighborhood Initiatives
These projects were sponsored by Manna Community Development Corporation and supported with LISC grant funding.

• Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Council: Created in 1996. Worked diligently for the redevelopment at Kennedy Playground, Shaw’s only playground for children and started Slumbusters which works with local officials, law enforcement and developers to restore or demolish abandoned properties in the neighborhood where drug activity and other crimes take place.
  
• Shaw Listening Project: Uses a tool referred to as the Listening Project, a Quaker community organizing methodology to solicit concerns and opinions from residents. The Shaw Listening Project enables the community organizers to efficiently and effectively engage with community residents.
  
• Shaw Eco-Village: Collaborative project between Ecocity Builders and Manna CDC which began as an intensive summer educational program to expose youth to the area of urban design and planning students plan and implement their own design projects.
  
• Enterprise Staffing Service: Established in 1998. Focuses on transitioning people from welfare to work using a strategy of placing unemployed residents in companies on a temporary-to-permanent basis. Manna CDC incubated this business for the first three years and ESS now operates as an independent, profit-generating business.

Recycle-A-Bicycle Program/Chain Reaction
The Recycle-A-Bicycle Program was born out of the Shaw EcoVillage Summer Internship Program of 1998. Teens participating in the program learn bicycle maintenance/repair, and skills to run a retail business. Following the successful completion of the workshops, the students become apprentice mechanics and can exchange labor for a bicycle and other cycling equipment. Donated bicycles are refurbished and sold to the community at a low cost or given to those who can't afford them. Chain Reaction located 1416 North Capitol Street NW is the program’s retail store. Supported by LISC grant funding in the amount of $20,000. (Manna Community Development Corporation)