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Coming Soon - the 2012 MetLife Awards Cycle

Enterprise and MetLife Foundation congratulate the winners of the 2011 MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing, which laud best practices in green, service-enriched housing for low-income seniors.

Meet the Winners

Casa Grande Senior Apartments, Petaluma, Calif. (PEP Housing) | Video
Covenant House, Brighton, Mass. (B’nai B’rith Housing New England)
Ingleside Retirement Apartments, Wilmington, Del. (Ingleside Homes, Inc.) | Video
Julia Martin House, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp.) | Video

Learn more about the 2011 winners | Meet past winners

Overview

In partnership with MetLife Foundation, Enterprise offers the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. The awards program recognizes 501(c)(3) community-based or regional nonprofit organizations and Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities that show exemplary leadership, innovation, effectiveness and quality operations and services delivery in green, affordable senior housing with services.

Winners receive:

$50,000 unrestricted grant
A commemorative plaque
A press release, issued locally and nationally, announcing your accomplishments
A profile of the winning project
An event for residents, partners and community members at the property

New this year: Enterprise will sponsor a local event for each winner!

The goals of the program are to:

Showcase models of excellence in the design, operations and property management of affordable senior housing
Increase the understanding of how to achieve success in providing innovative and high quality independent living for seniors
Provide an unrestricted financial award for agencies that exhibit excellence in senior housing
Disseminate model senior independent living programs

Resources

2011 MetLife Foundation Award Winners
Meet this year's winners.

Leading the Way Home: Celebrating 15 Years of the MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing
Download this special commemorative publication, profiling 7 of the MetLife Foundation Awards program's most innovative and prolific winners from 1996 through 2010.

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