Washington D.C. Business

September 8, 2022

#HousingDC22 Annual Housing Champion: Frank Nothaft

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Housing Finance Strategies Founder & CEO Faith Schwartz today announced this year’s Housing Champion Award recipient is the late Frank Nothaft. Each year Housing Finance Strategies reviews a short list of candidates for the prestigious Housing Champion award and announces the winner at the #HousingDC conference….

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August 19, 2022

New Children’s Book Embraces the Bond of Parents and Child Through Life and Death

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With an aim to help families begin to heal after the terrible loss of a child, “ScootieToots and the Feathers From Heaven: A Family Healing Book” (ISBN: 978-0228866862) by Audri B. Cabness is a whimsical children’s story with a powerful message that offers families an uplifting vantage point, at any point in their healing process, from which they are given the opportunity to begin to pivot from despair to serenity….

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August 2, 2022

Housing Finance Strategies Names Industry Leader Jeff Jaffee as Senior Advisor

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Housing Finance Strategies Founder & CEO Faith Schwartz today announced she has recruited industry veteran Jeff Jaffee to join her firm as a Senior Advisor focusing on fair lending and consumer protection compliance….

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July 14, 2022

New Writing Program Mobilizes Therapists to Help K-12 Teachers, Librarians and School Administrators

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Things They Carry Project (TTC), part of New Directions in Writing, an offshoot of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, was launched in April 2021 to offer writing for resilience workshops to frontline Covid healthcare workers suffering the trauma of working during the pandemic. The project has helped over 700 participants from the US, Asia, Brazil, the UK, and the Middle East….

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July 12, 2022

U.S. Climate Activist, Illai Kenney, Urged Young Leaders to Unite Globally for Climate Justice During the Continental Youth Symposium in Uganda

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Determined to encourage unity across the African Diaspora, expand their global network of youth working to advance climate justice and to promote the upcoming PreCOP27 Africa Virtual Summit, the HBCU Green Fund sent a small delegation to participate in the 3rd African Peer Review Mechanism Continental Youth Symposium in Kampala, Uganda last week….

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July 1, 2022

HousingWire identifies Sales Boomerang’s Richard Grieser as a Marketing Leader

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sales Boomerang, the mortgage industry’s top-rated automated borrower intelligence and retention system, today announced that Richard Grieser, vice president of marketing, was named to the prestigious 2022 HW Marketing Leaders List. This award, presented by HousingWire magazine, is presented to marketing leaders driving outsized business performance in the mortgage and real estate industries….

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June 21, 2022

Mobile Truck Mounted Medical POD to Aid Sick and Wounded Ukrainian Civilians Hand Off Event to United Help Ukraine

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pacific Engineering Inc. (PEI) has joined forces with United Help Ukraine (UHU), Gaithersburg, MD to take a small, but critical step to provide much-needed care to Kharkiv’s sick and wounded. PEI is honored to make a contribution to UHU by donating a truck-mounted Rapid On Demand – Portable Medical Platform (ROD-PMP™) to provide emergency medical assistance in Ukraine….

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June 7, 2022

Housing Finance Strategies Hires Stuart Quinn as Managing Director

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Housing Finance Strategies Founder & CEO Faith Schwartz today announced she has recruited mortgage consulting and product manager Stuart Quinn to join her firm as Managing Director….

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June 1, 2022

Cheryl Messner joins Sales Boomerang to oversee customer experience department

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sales Boomerang, the mortgage industry’s top-rated automated borrower intelligence and retention system, today announced that it has tapped Cheryl Messner to manage its customer experience departments. In her new role, Messner will define strategies to enhance Sales Boomerang’s customer experience, engagement, success and operations as well as help the company build upon its growth from a fintech startup to the industry’s leading borrower intelligence solution….

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May 6, 2022

Housing Finance Strategies Names Allen Jones Chief Administrative Officer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Housing Finance Strategies President Faith Schwartz today announced that she has named industry veteran and former Big 4 consulting executive Allen Jones as Chief Administrative Officer and Managing Director of the Consulting Practice….

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