NeighborWorks America Launches New "Green" Website for Healthy and Sustainable Homebuilding and Communities

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - November 5, 2008) - NeighborWorks America recently launched a new website (www.nw.org/green) designed to help the housing and community development industry create "greener" and healthier housing and communities. The launch follows the corporation's successful "Go Green Now" symposium held earlier this year in Atlanta.

"This is an exciting time for the non-profit community development community and its efforts to create healthier, sustainable and affordable housing," said Thomas P. Deyo, Senior Advisor Green Strategies and Gulf Rebuilding at NeighborWorks America. "The redesigned website contains important information that will help housing developers choose the products and processes to improve the environmental quality of housing.

"It also presents examples of various green efforts being undertaken in the field for building homes, improving business operations, and undertaking green community projects. Importantly, the site also includes links to the latest education and training courses available for professionals who want to learn how to make major changes in the way they build and manager housing," said Deyo.

NeighborWorks America offers a three week Green and Healthy Homes Specialist certification. The nine courses are available from the NeighborWorks Training Institute, with the next opportunity to take a required course occurring at the December NeighborWorks Training Institute to be held December 8-12 in Washington, DC.

NeighborWorks America offers a total of sixteen green building and related courses, including courses in how to "green" multifamily housing to how to "green" an organization. New courses are being rolled out at this institute in Green Building Science and Green Housing Rehabilitation.

About NeighborWorks® America

NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities by providing access to homeownership and to safe and affordable rental housing. Since 1991, we have assisted nearly 1.2 million low- to moderate-income families with their housing needs. Much of our success is achieved through our support of the NeighborWorks network -- more than 230 community development organizations working in more than 4,400 urban, suburban and rural communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In the last five years, NeighborWorks organizations have generated more than $15 billion in reinvestment in these communities. NeighborWorks America is the nation's leading trainer of community development and affordable housing professionals. www.nw.org.

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