Home HeadQuarters Celebrates NeighborWorks® Week June 7th-June 14th With a Series of Events and A National Honor

Syracuse, NY -- Home HeadQuarters, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building better neighborhoods through homeownership, is celebrating National NeighborWorks® Week, June 7th-June 14th, with a series of events open to the public. NeighborWorks® Week, now in its 20th year, is a celebration of the accomplishments of the more than 200 not-for-profit housing organizations located throughout 49 states that make up the NeighborWorks® network. During NeighborWorks® Week, residents, business people, government officials and other volunteers work side by side to complete projects or take part in activities that help improve their communities.

Nationally, the NeighborWorks® Network of housing organizations generated nearly $1.7 billion for affordable housing and community development, helped 67,300 lower-income families purchase, improve and maintain their homes and provided pre- and post-purchase homebuyer counseling to 72,400 families.

In Syracuse since 1996, Home HeadQuarters has provided more than 740 first-time homebuyers with Down Payment and Closing Cost Assistance, counseled close to 3,000 prospective homebuyers and generated more than $44.6 million in home purchase mortgage financing. Home HeadQuarters was recently honored by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the founder of NeighborWorks® Week, as one of the Top 25 National HomeOwnership Producers in the NeighborWorks® Network for a five-year homeownership campaign.

HOME HEADQUARTERS NEIGHBORWORKS® WEEK EVENTS:

Saturday, June 7th
Community Garden Planting -- 164 W. Corning Ave., 10am-2pm (rain or shine)
Join the "Together We Can" Block Association, Home HeadQuarters and the neighbors in the Cannon-Newell and South Salina Corridor Neighborhoods for a community garden planting on an open lot at 164 W. Corning Avenue. Volunteer gardeners are invited to bring their children and any gardening tools they may already own. Planting materials, refreshments, balloons for the kids and giveaways will be provided.

Saturday, June 7th
Neighborhood Planting, Cookout and Information Day at Congress Avenue Park (near the corner of Oswego St., and Congress Ave.), 1pm-3pm (rain or shine)
Home HeadQuarters is hosting this Near Westside neighborhood gathering offering residents a chance to beautify an adjacent open lot and enjoy "open mic" performances by neighborhood kids. Refreshments will be provided and information booths will be available from such organizations as P.E.A.C.E., The Boys and Girls Clubs and CBAP.

Wednesday, June 11th
Home HeadQuarters Homebuyer Education Course Alumni Celebration
5pm-6:30pm, Home HeadQuarters, 124 E. Jefferson St., (must register in advance by calling 474-1939 x245) Some of the City's newest and happiest homeowners are celebrating their accomplishments along with the people and organizations that helped them achieve homeownership. Graduates from Home HeadQuarters' Homebuyer Education Course, area banking institutions and not-for-profit housing organizations will gather at Home HeadQuarters for a casual event with refreshments, giveaways, prize drawings and the "Good Neighbor-Banking" award presentation. This event is free, but attendees must register in advance due to space constraints.

Thursday, June 12th
Let's Be Frank! Home HeadQuarters Open House and Hot Dog Lunch, 12pm-1:30pm, Home HeadQuarters, 124 E. Jefferson St., free and open to the public
The Home HeadQuarters Open House and Hot Dog Lunch is for anyone who "relishes" the idea of owning their own home, fixing up the one they already own or anyone who wants to "ketchup" on the latest housing information. Free hotdogs, lemonade, giveaways and Home Ownership & Improvement Information Kits are available to visitors (while supplies last).

For more information regarding these events or how to get involved in NeighborWorks® Week, please call Home HeadQuarters at 474-1939.