NeighborNews Archive
Delisa’s Dedication
Board Chair, Jose Villanueva, with President and CEO, Roy Nash presenting Vice President and COO, Delisa Burnell-Smith with an achievement award. President and CEO, Roy Nash, interviewed Vice President and COO, Delisa Burnell-Smith about her dedicated service over...
Sustaining Goals
By Chris Qualls For 25 years, NeighborWorks Waco has served Central Texas, striving to build stronger neighborhoods through homeownership, quality rental housing and community-building initiatives. Our vision is and has been that through our organization, and its...
25th Anniversary Awards
By Chris Qualls Fall of 2018 marked our 25th anniversary. We have loved serving Central Texas, building stronger neighborhoods, and helping families achieve their dreams of homeownership. For a quarter of a century, we have built our foundation, developed numerous...
Chair’s Message
By Jose R. VillanuevaChair of the Board This newsletter celebrates several areas of our success, community engagement and new initiatives. It is a good snapshot of our current work in Waco and Central Texas. Despite the disfunction of federal appropriations,...
Executive Insights
By Roy Nash, President/CEO, NeighborWorks Waco Housing affordability is a challenge we work on every day at NeighborWorks Waco. How do we keep houses affordable for our clients when home prices are sharply increasing, mortgage rates are swelling, and wages...
People First
By Chris Qualls, LMSW September 5, 2018 American history is something of a mixed bag. Like all great stories, there are ups and downs. Forming a representative democracy upon the idea of individual freedom is a particularly good moment in the arching trajectory of...
Taking Root in Waco
While moving out of your parents house before the age of twenty is not uncommon, it proves to be a bit more challenging when trying to balance that new independence with a college degree, two jobs, and your first child. However, Gerika is a proud, 25-year-old...
Hammers & Heels 2018
Four years ago, NeighborWorks Waco began offering “Hammers & Heels”, a post-purchase workshop in partnership with local Home Depot locations. NeighborWorks Waco is always looking for new and better ways to build stronger neighborhoods through homeownership,...
Saving For A Different Future
In November 2017, NeighborWorks Waco started a new limited run program- Project SAVER. Project SAVER was designed to help 30 participants rebuild credit and start a pattern of saving by offering a financial incentive for those who successfully followed program...
