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11/14/08	FDIC Offers Plan for Reworking Mortgages [NPR]
11/12/08	Sweeping Mortgage Aid Plan Unveiled [Mercury News]
10/17/08	Renters in Foreclosed Homes Get Help
10/17/08	Mortgage Fraud: New and Improved [CNN]
10/17/08	MacArthur Foundation Offers up to $68M in Mortgage Rescue Money
10/16/08	More than 1,000 People Complete NeighborWorks America's On-line Foreclosure Intervention Counseling Course
10/16/08	Mortgage Industry Supported Foreclosure Prevention Ad Campaign Reaches More than 100 Million Households
10/09/08	Local TV Broadcast - NeighborWorks CEO Ken Wade and Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania Discuss Mortgage Help at NHS of Lackawanna County (PA) Event
10/08/08	NeighborWorks America Receives More Than $4 Million in HUD Support for Housing Counseling
10/07/08	Bank of America Announces Help for Countrywide Borrowers
10/07/08	NeighborWorks America Launches New Resources for Community Stabilization at www.stablecommunities.org
10/03/08	Financial Bailout Bill is Law
10/02/08	Senate Passes Financial Rescue Bill
10/01/08	HUD Launches 'Hope for Homeowners' Program to Help More Struggling Homeowners keep Their Homes
09/27/08	How the Financial Rescue Bill Affects Homeowners
09/26/08	Preston Allocates Nearly $4 Billion to Stabilize Neighborhoods in States and Local Communities Hard Hit by Foreclosure —HUD Plans Housing Summit to Explain New Neighborhood Stabilization Program
09/25/08	NeighborWorks America: Foreclosure Crisis Not Caused By Low-income Borrowers
09/23/08	What About My Mortgage?
09/08/08	U.S. Seizes Mortgage Giants
09/08/08	Nearly Two Hundred Register for NeighborWorks Foreclosure Intervention Counseling Training
08/28/08	NeighborWorks CEO Urges Lawmakers to Preserve the American Dream of Homeownership
08/27/08	Two Milliion Troubled Borrowers Avoid Foreclosure
07/30/08	NeighborWorks America Supports Sweeping Housing Legislation
07/30/08	The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to Help Struggling Homeowners, Communities and Housing Markets
06/17/08	Congress Holds Foreclosure Hearings in Cleveland
06/10/08	NBC News Special Report on Foreclosure Assistance
06/06/08	Rental Households Also Suffer During Foreclosures
06/03/08	Blight of US Home Foreclosures May Take Years to Heal
05/31/08	Faith-Based Foreclosure Prevention Campaign Launched in New Jersey Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer Attends Press Conference
05/27/08	Contractors Are Kept Busy Maintaining Abandoned Homes
05/21/08	Senate Panel Approves Housing Bill FHA Would Insure Loans for 500,000 Troubled Borrowers
05/07/08	NeighborWorks America Announces New Partnership with the Federal Reserve to Help Stabilize Communities Affected by Foreclosure
05/06/08	Lenders Come Together to Help Homeowners [Jacksonville, FL]
05/05/08	Housing Counselors Feeling Squeeze Lenders want their money; borrowers want their home
05/05/08	Thousands of Homeowners Receive Free Foreclosure Help Through NeighborWorks America and HOPE Now Alliance Outreach
04/24/08	House Panel Approves $15 Billion Foreclosure Bill
04/21/08	Foreclosures Taking a Big Toll on City Finances, Poll Shows
04/14/08	More Than Two Hundred Register for NeighborWorks Foreclosure Intervention Counseling Training
04/11/08	Senate Passes Mortgage Relief Bill
04/05/08	Newark Neighborhood Preservation Patrol Day a Huge Success
03/28/08	New Jersey Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure Through Elizabeth, NJ-Based Brand New Day, Inc.
03/27/08	America Joins with Prince George’s County, Maryland, to Prevent Foreclosure and Promote Sustainable Homeownership
03/24/08	HOPE NOW: National Homeownership Preservation Tour Off to Strong Start
03/04/08	Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Addresses Ways to Reduce Preventable Mortgage Foreclosures
02/26/08	$130 Million Awarded Through National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program
02/26/08	HUD Secretary Applauds NeighborWorks America for Awarding $130 Million for Foreclosure Prevention Counseling
02/21/08	HOPE NOW Releases List of Alliance Members Toll-Free Numbers [PDF]
01/30/08	NeighborWorks America Announces Six Months Results of Foreclosure Prevention Awareness Campaign; Recognizes 2008 Program Supporters
01/18/08	National Housing Groups Announce the Endorsement of National Industry Foreclosure Counseling Standards to Help Save Thousands from Foreclosure
12/27/07	Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Efforts Receive Boost From $180 Million Appropriation -- NeighborWorks America Selected to Award Grants to Approved Intermediaries
12/07/07	NeighborWorks America Applauds Latest Effort to Combat Foreclosure; Cites the Importance of Counseling for Homeowners in Danger or Foreclosure
12/03/07	HOPE NOW Announces Hotline Deliverable [PDF]
12/03/07	Remarks by Secretary Paulson on Actions Taken and Actions Needed in U.S. Mortgage Markets
11/05/07	Speech by Federal Reserve Governor Randall S. Kroszner, The Challenges Facing Subprime Mortgage Borrowers
11/02/07	Remarks of Kenneth D. Wade, Chief Executive Officer, NeighborWorks America Before the House Financial Services Committee — Hearing on Progress in Administration and Other Efforts to Coordinate and Enhance Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention [PDF]
10/25/07	Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, NeighborWorks America Release Results of National Focus Groups
10/16/07	Treasury Secretary Paulson Calls for Aggressive Response to Foreclosures, Downturn in Housing
10/16/07	Speech by Ken Wade: Saving the American Dream: Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis in Michigan
10/10/07	Atlanta Fed Releases Video on Foreclosure Prevention with NeighborWorks and Other Partners
10/10/07	HOPE NOW Alliance Created to Help Distressed Homeowners
10/03/07	Video: SmartMoney Segment on Avoiding Foreclosure
10/02/07	NeighborWorks Partners in Northeast Region Recognized for Their Foreclosure Prevention Efforts
09/24/07	NeighborWorks America's Foreclosure Prevention Work Mentioned in Statement of Ben S. Bernanke, chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Financial Services U.S. House of Representatives [PDF, 44 KB]
09/20/07	NeighborWorks America CEO Wade Stresses Role of Pre-Purchase Education in Preventing Foreclosures and Greater Scrutiny in Choosing Home Loans
09/18/07	Ohio Housing Finance Agency Adds $3.1 Million to Ohio NeighborWorks Foreclosure Prevention Tool Box
09/17/07	Connecticut Congressman Chris Murphy Announces Mortgage Help Resources
08/31/07	NeighborWorks America Welcomes President Bush's Call for Homeowner Help
07/16/07	FDIC, NeighborWorks America Form National Partnership to Help Consumers at Risk of Foreclosure
06/27/07	Comptroller Dugan Unveils Public Service Announcements Encouraging Delinquent Borrowers to Contact Lenders for Help to Avoid Foreclosure
06/26/07	NeighborWorks America and The Ad Council Launch National Foreclosure Prevention Awareness Campaign
05/31/07	National Neighborhood Improvement Kicks off With NeighborWorks® Week; Mortgage Education and Foreclosure Prevention Workshops Will Be Featured in Many Communities
05/15/07	Over 7000 Ohioans Call 1-888-995-HOPE Hotline in First Year — Ohio Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Get Help from NeighborWorks
04/30/07	Comptroller Dugan Expresses Concern over Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures; Receives "Making-the-Difference" Award from Credit Counseling Foundation
02/09/07	Effort Helps Fight Foreclosure Columbus Dispatch
01/24/07	More Bay Area Homeowners In Foreclosure Trouble KGO TV San Francisco (ABC)
12/28/06	Nonprofit working to prevent foreclosures in 2007 Gwinnett (GA) Daily Post
12/20/06	Subprime foreclosures to spike CNNMoney.com
11/03/06	$1M To Help Stave Off Foreclosures Hamilton (OH) Journal News
09/28/06	City's High Foreclosure Rate Spurs Hotline, Counseling Baltimore Business Journal
09/27/06	Group fights foreclosure: New $800,000 effort offers advice to city homeowners in trouble Baltimore Sun
09/23/06	New Program Will Help Stave Off Foreclosures The Baltimore Examine
08/25/06	Can’t Pay? Talk to Mortgage Lender USA Today
08/20/06	“Mortgage morass” Falling behind on payments? Lenders’ workout programs can help MarketWatch
08/17/06	NeighborWorks America and MetLife Foundation Recognize Key Foreclosure Prevention Efforts DS News
08/14/06	Foreclosures For Sale Newsweek
07/27/06	Task force is helping to save homes Community Newspapers (Ohio) This Week
07/15/06	Foreclosures Rising: NeighborWorks® to the Rescue Real Estate Matters Syndicate
06/23/06	NeighborWorks Prepares For Flood Of Mortgage Delinquencies Realty Times Syndicated
06/02/06	Ohio Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Get Help from NeighborWorks RIS Media
Summer 06	Preventing Foreclosures: Research and Innovation Are Keys [PDF, 57 KB] bright ideas
Summer 06	The Tragedy of Foreclosure: Community-Based Nonprofits Respond [PDF, 57 KB] bright ideas
05/08/06	Three More Mortgage Industry Leaders Join Coalition with NeighborWorks to Avert Home Foreclosures NeighborWorks News Release
Spring 06	Homeownership: Preserving the American Dream, Community Developments Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Newsletter
05/01/06	Subprime Lending Spurs Syracuse Foreclosure-Prevention Program NeighborWorks Article
04/10/06	National Mortgage Lenders and NeighborWorks Partner to Avert Foreclosures NeighborWorks News Release
04/03/06	Some homeowners struggle to keep up with adjustable rates USA Today
11/22/05	Partnership Helps Homeowners Facing Foreclosure NeighborWorks News Release
05/26/05	Ohio NeighborWorks Groups Team Up to Prevent Foreclosures NeighborWorks Press Release
02/15/05	Effort Launched to Reduce and Prevent Foreclosures in Ohio NeighborWorks News Release
01/18/05	Forum to Highlight Strategies for Addressing Ohio’s Rising Foreclosure Rate NeighborWorks Press Release