Community Programs

We’re connecting our members and their partners with resources to support and strengthen communities.

Funds available to build desperately needed affordable housing, facilitate homeownership, or fuel economic development in underserved neighborhoods are persistently in very short supply.

Our members use our community program grants and discounted credit products to help:

  • Create or preserve quality affordable housing for lower-income families and individuals, many with special needs
  • Facilitate sustainable homeownership for low- to moderate-income families and individuals
  • Deliver skill-building educational programs and life-enhancing social services to underserved communities
  • Support innovative targeted jobs programs and entrepreneurship
  • Give a boost to local nonprofits, seed or sustain small businesses, and advance community-based economic development objectives

Across Arizona, California, Nevada, and other regions where our members do business, our Community Program grants are making a difference. 

Unhoused veterans find both a stable place to live and a fellowship of vets at an AHP-assisted apartment complex in Carson City. A single mother received a WISH first-time homebuyer grant to help with the downpayment to purchase her family a home, with a lower mortgage payment compared to her previous monthly rental payments, in Fresno County. And with a boost from a commercial kitchen funded by an AHEAD economic development grant, an ancestral foods entrepreneur focused on health grows her business in Phoenix.

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Funds available to build desperately needed affordable housing, facilitate homeownership, or fuel economic development in underserved neighborhoods are persistently in very short supply.

Our members use our community program grants and discounted credit products to help:

  • Create or preserve quality affordable housing for lower-income families and individuals, many with special needs
  • Facilitate sustainable homeownership for low- to moderate-income families and individuals
  • Deliver skill-building educational programs and life-enhancing social services to underserved communities
  • Support innovative targeted jobs programs and entrepreneurship
  • Give a boost to local nonprofits, seed or sustain small businesses, and advance community-based economic development objectives

Across Arizona, California, Nevada, and other regions where our members do business, our Community Program grants are making a difference. 

Unhoused veterans find both a stable place to live and a fellowship of vets at an AHP-assisted apartment complex in Carson City. A single mother received a WISH first-time homebuyer grant to help with the downpayment to purchase her family a home, with a lower mortgage payment compared to her previous monthly rental payments, in Fresno County. And with a boost from a commercial kitchen funded by an AHEAD economic development grant, an ancestral foods entrepreneur focused on health grows her business in Phoenix.

More stories about people and communities benefiting from the Community Program tools and resources our members deliver can be found In the Spotlight.

    Doris Ealy, 56, never felt comfortable renting a room under someone else’s roof. The single mother of four children and grandmother to four didn’t like cooking in a shared kitchen or how her landlord ...
    Our members partner with housing and community development organizations to access funding that makes a difference.