2007 Sponsors

Major Sponsors ($15,000)

Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.

Co-Sponsors ($7,500)

International Economic Development Council
The International Economic Development Council is dedicated to helping economic development professionals improve the quality of life in their communities. With over 4,000 members we represent all levels of government, academia, and private industry. IEDC provides a broad range of member services including research, advisory services, conferences, professional certification, professional development, publications, legislative tracking and more.

Supporting Sponsors ($5,000)

Richard Lerner (Private Donor)

Branig Capital Markets
Relationships are the key to success in the multifamily mortgage industry. This is why Branig Capital Markets successfully places in excess of $500 million annually of FHA- and RHS-insured mulitfamily mortgages.

Capital Funding Group, Inc.
Capital Funding Group, Inc. is a commercial mortgage lender, specializing in healthcare loans. We are a national leader in FHA-insured mortgages for healthcare entities such as Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Board and Care Homes, Mental Health and Rehabilitation Facilities, and Hospitals. Comprehensive financing solutions are provided through various types of programs.

Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac makes housing more accessible and affordable for millions of families across America. How? We link homeowners and renters to the world’s capital markets. It is a unique mortgage credit system that makes homeownership a reality for more of America’s families.

Event Sponsors ($1,500)

The Choice, Inc.
The Choice Inc. is proud to be Washington's hometown staffing organization. We have served the Metropolitan area since 1983 and we're proud of the reputation we have built for providing optimal customer service. We are also proud of our reputation for treating associates well. At The Choice Inc. we have a keen understanding that it is imperative to keep associates and clients happy! We understand the choices we each have when seeking a staffing partner and we want to ensure we are the choice time and again.

Mortgage Bankers Association
The Mortgage Bankers Association seeks to create an environment that enables its members to invest in communities and achieve their business objectives. The association creates this environment by developing innovative business tools, educating and training industry professionals, providing a gathering place for the sharing of ideas, acting as the industry's voice on legislative and regulatory issues, and developing open and fair standards and practices for the industry.

Prudential Mortgage Capital Company
Prudential Huntoon Paige is one of the nation's largest originators of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured multifamily loans secured through HUD. We leverage Prudential Financial's 125 year commitment to the commercial real estate business and Prudential Mortgage Capital Company's broad range of commercial products.

Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital
Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital specializes in permanent financing for multifamily properties and healthcare facilities primarily through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA and conduits. This provides a wide range of funding programs, which are augmented by other Wells Fargo products.

Reznick Group, P.C.
Reznick Group is a national accounting, tax and business advisory firm that specializes in providing sound, strategic business counsel. The firm works with clients in a broad spectrum of industries, specifically in providing services to real estate professionals; lenders and investors; corporate executives, business owners and entrepreneurs; government professionals; nonprofit professionals; and healthcare administrators.

Tee Sponsors ($1,000)

Appraisal Institute
The Appraisal Institute is an international membership association of professional real estate appraisers, with more than 21,000 members and 99 chapters throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. Its mission is to support and advance its members as the choice for real estate solutions and uphold professional credentials, standards of professional practice and ethics consistent with the public good.

Data Interchange Standards Association
Home to numerous organizations developing e-business standards, the Data Interchange Standards Association helps individuals and the business community improve business processes, reduce costs, increase productivity, and take advantage of new opportunities.

Deutsche Bank Berkshire Mortgage
Specializes in financing for multi-family originations for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA; find out about loan programs, recent projects, and investor ... www.berkshiremortgage.com

House of Printing
For more than three decades, we have provided our clients in the Baltimore-Washington metro area with customized, cost-effective, and efficient printing services. Our commitment to quality control is evident in our full-service in-house capabilities, including digital pre-press, embossing, foil stamping, binding, and finishing.

International Council of Shopping Centers
Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 65,000 members in the U.S., Canada and more than 80 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers and other professionals as well as academics and public officials. As the global industry trade association, ICSC links with more than 25 national and regional shopping center councils throughout the world.

Jackson Lewis LLP
For over 45 years, Jackson Lewis has placed a high premium on preventive strategies and positive solutions in the practice of workplace law. We partner with employers to devise policies and procedures promoting constructive employee relations and limiting disputes. With 23 offices in major cities throughout the U.S. Jackson Lewis combines a national perspective with an awareness of local business environments. Our clients represent a wide range of public and private businesses and non-profit institutions.

Martell and Associates
As an experienced law firm in Washington D.C., Martell and Associates has been serving a spectrum of clients since 1983 specializing in transactional work involving government mortgage products including FHA project loans and GNMA mortgage bank securities.

National Association of Realtors
The National Association of Realtors, the voice for real estate, is America's largest trade association serving more than 760,000 members. Working for America's property owners, the National Association of Realtors provides a facility for professional development, research, and exchange of information among its members and to the public and government for the purpose of preserving the free enterprise system and the right to own real property.

National Multi Housing Council
The Washington, DC-based National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) is the apartment industry’s leading advocate and strategic consultant. Founded in 1978 with just a few members, including such industry legends as Sam Zell, Preston Butcher, Howard Ruby, Trammell Crow, and Richard Fore, NMHC’s membership roster now includes the principal officers of the most distinguished multifamily firms in the United States. NMHC members are engaged in all aspects of the rental housing business, including apartment ownership, management, development, brokerage and finance. Backed by one of the most competent and professional staffs in real estate, the Council focuses on the three key areas of advocacy, strategic information and industry meetings.

Nixon Peabody
Practicing in virtually all business areas from offices located throughout the Northeast, including Boston, New York City and Washington DC. www.nixonpeabody.com

Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing
The Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) is an independent, nonprofit, corporation based in Columbus, Ohio. Our mission is to cause the construction, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing throughout all of Ohio. Since its inception, OCCH has raised more than $1 billion in corporate equity through 14 funds and completed more than 300 transactions, creating over 16,000 units of affordable housing.

PEPCO
Pepco is a regulated electric utility that provides transmission and distribution services and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI). We deliver electricity to more than 725,000 homes and businesses in the District of Columbia and its Maryland suburbs.

Richard A. Hall, P.C.
Richard A. Hall P.C. is a McLean, Virginia CPA firm that provides tax, accounting and auditing services for clients in the Washington metropolitan area. For 14 years, clients including individuals, non-profit organizations, and corporations, have benefited from the expertise of Richard A. Hall, P.C.

Robert J. Jones (Private Donor)

Patrons ($500)

Jim Tanner (Private donor)