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Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)
NOAH was organized as a non-profit, and began serving East Boston in 1987 as a two-person organization operating from the basement of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Maverick Sq. The early founders were well-regarded neighborhood activists and leaders who stood strong and spoke publicly for affordable housing, environmental justice, respect for peoples arriving from other nations and for economic redevelopment of our business community.
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With a clear need for the production of affordable housing in Boston suburbs as well as enhanced social media platforms, NOAH now serves communities throughout Greater Boston with our mixed-income housing development initiatives, our multi-faceted homebuyer/financial fitness classes and programs. Our organizational capacity has grown, and NOAH has 22 full-time and fourteen part-time staff members governed by a multi-cultural eleven-member Board of Directors.
While our initiatives and business lines initiatives have multiplied over the decades, our original goals remain the nucleus of our work: creating and preserving affordable housing opportunities for both affordable and market rate housing, generating opportunities for individual and community wealth as well as building a safe and healthy environment for our vulnerable residents and businesses.
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About NOAH
Thank you to all our generous funders, donors, investors and supporters, and to our hard-working volunteers, partners including NOAH’s Board and staff. Together, we have been able to achieve the following:
We have been able to serve over 1,400 housing and 1,100 neighborhood programming client/households each year; assisting 3,500+ individuals per year.
Our efforts have paid off. Thanks to NOAH commitment 3,000 families work have retained their homes in the face of a potential foreclosure, with over an 80% long-term-case success ratio.
By 2024
Since 1994
Since 1987
OUR FOUNDATION
We have helped over 1,888 families purchase their first homes since 1994.
Today, we serve 96+ Greater Boston municipalities through its bilingual housing-related programming
Since 2008
March 2023
2020
Development of Aileron in East Boston began; and three more active projects pending.
We completed Coppersmith Village, a 71-unit, mixed-income, mixed-use $43 million development in East Boston, and our organization continues to manage and grow its real estate development pipeline since then.
We assisted more than 4,500 individuals in housing and neighborhood programming
Currently, we work with 300 or more low-income families yearly, through five free bilingual service lines for renters funded largely by the City of Boston.
NOAH continues to be rated as 'Exemplary' by NeighborWorks America.
Over seventy percent of NOAH's clients earn 79% or less of AMI (Average Median Income); and between 50% of NOAH's clients earn less than 50% AMI.
Each year, approximately 65% of NOAH's clientele represented an ethnic minority (50% new-immigrant, first-generation Hispanic families). All client-serving staff members are bilingual.
We have rehabilitated or developed 494 units within 80 buildings in East Boston, Everett, Beverly, Holliston, North Andover, Carlisle, Webster, and Middleborough; with three additional developments in its pipeline.
Each year, we offer ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes to over 150 students and citizenship training.
Through our partnership with the City of Boston, NOAH performs over 300 safety repairs annually for low-income homeowners and offers home rehabilitation for seniors, including cost-free improvements and interest-free loans.
2019
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Who We Serve
NOAH serves diverse individuals and families in East Boston and across the Greater Boston Area, from the North South Shore and MetroWest. While our clients are primarily low- to moderate-income and reflect the rich diversity of the area, we serve so many people who have decent incomes but are challenged bu the very tight marketplace.
We do not turn away any distressed Massachusetts family looking for help.
NOAH’s Youth Leadership Development Program
WE TRAIN AGES 8-12 AND 14-18 EACH YEAR
The Youth EJ projects have addressed community issues such as Climate Change Preparedness; Community Tree Canopy Expansion; Littering and Spilled Trash Mitigation; Waterfront Access; Greenspace Access; Local Food Production; Walkability; Air and Water Pollution; Bike Access on the MBTA; and more.
PROGRAMS
That works with 65+ children each year, an ongoing seven-week Summer Schoolyard program that serves 90-200 disadvantaged elementary schoolchildren each summer, and a yearlong youth leadership program for disadvantaged East Boston teens.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Executive Director
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Phil graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in the Mid-West but moved East with his family when his father took a job at Natick Labs. Phil moved to East Boston in 1971 when neighborhood activists and some fellow conscientious objectors were forming the East Boston Community Development Corporation. Phil has been involved with affordable housing since the 1970's when friends formed a small corporation to rehabilitate vacant housing and rent it out at a low cost to local residents. Soon after, he joined some friends at the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council (EBECC) who were responding to the call for racial harmony and affordable housing. NOAH became the entity that focused on housing, with Phil serving as the Executive Director officially since July 1987. In the 70's Phil co-founded Shelter Inc, now a leading homeless shelter and advocacy organization with sites in the Cambridge and Greater Boston areas. He co-chaired the Framingham Housing Partnership from 2002-2004. Lastly, he is currently on the Board of the Mass. Association of CDC’s, giving him a strong presence in regional issues. He later moved to Framingham with his wife Nancy O’Hare in the late 90's, where they would go on to raise their son, Justin.
Director of Administration and Fundraising
Linda holds a bachelor’s degree from Regis College and a master’s degree from Boston College. She is a graduate of the US Chamber of Commerce “Organizational Management” program. Linda has served on the board of directors of seven nonprofit organizations, and has been a Board officer for six of these (including several tenures as a Board Chair). She has been an active community volunteer, served as an elected Library Trustee, and has performed award-winning fundraising efforts on behalf of the WGBH Channel 2 Auction. Before coming to NOAH, Linda served as VP and Acting President for a regional chamber of commerce. She brings her strong background in organizational leadership to NOAH’s resource development efforts, including managing NOAH’s grant and contract proposal processes, as well as its fundraising. Linda ensures contract activities compliance, and oversees NOAH’s resource reporting processes. She is also responsible for NOAH’s communications and marketing components, including NOAH’s website, electronic newsletter, social media and annual reporting. With Vinny, she oversees NOAH’s operations in the absence of the Executive Director.
Director of Finance
Vinny Qualtieri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a Major in Accounting from Suffolk University. A long-time East Boston resident, Vinny graduated from East Boston High School in 1991. He now lives in Revere with his wife and young daughter. Vinny most recently worked as a full-time treasurer for a family-owned construction company, and is on the Board of the East Boston Chamber of Commerce. Before that he worked for Dreyfus Retirement Services as a Manager in Trust Accounting. With Linda, he oversees NOAH’s operations in the absence of the Executive Director.
Director of Homebuyer Services
Diana Franco has been with NOAH since 2004, both full-time and part-time. She was born in Medellin, Colombia and came to the United States at the age of eight. She went to Elementary School in East Boston at James Otis, then to Barnes Middle School, and graduated from West Roxbury High School. Diana has worked in many different fields, starting as Liaison Agent at the City of Boston Police Department, where she worked for five years. In 2001 she moved to Citizens Mortgage as a part-time Assistant Loan Officer/Administrative Assistant for three years. In May 2003, Diana went to Citizens Bank as a Banker/Loan Captain while also beginning as an agent working for Addison Wellesley Real Estate Services. She later moved to ReMax Real Estate in East Boston. Diana started with NOAH as the Program Director of the Maverick Hope VI program, and continued on as Program Director of the Washington-Beech Maverick Hope VI program, where she helped people of low- and middle-income to purchase their first homes. Diana loves her position at NOAH because she gets to help people find homes and thinks it is “so gratifying to see them so happy.” In 2010 she was promoted to Department Director, and now oversees NOAH's First- Time Homebuyer, Financial Literacy, and Foreclosure Prevention & Mitigation activities. She currently lives in Revere with her dog Lucas, and her young son.
Diana Franco
Diana Franco
Director of Property Management
Mal oversees NOAH’s operations of commercial, multi-family and elderly apartment communities in 48 buildings throughout eastern Massachusetts. Mal has over 15 years of experience working in affordable and conventional housing. His experience includes LIHTC, HUD Programs, and conventional and commercial properties. Mal is a Certified Property Manager (CPM) candidate as well as an Accredited Resident Manager (ARM) with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). Mal is also a Certified Housing Asset Management (CHAM) candidate with NeighborWorks of America and holds various LIHTC, Asset Management and Maintenance certifications with Spectrum Enterprises, NCHM and NAHRO. In his spare time Mal enjoys spending time with family, playing basketball and traveling.
Fundraising and Communications
AssociateEDoherty@noahcdc.org
617-567-5882
Youth Coordinator/Comm.
Org.kflores@noahcdc.org
617-567-5882
Senior Community
Organizermmendez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8242
Senior Staff
Accountantsli@noahcdc.org
617-418-8251
Foreclosure Prevention
Counselorcgrajalest@noahcdc.org
(617) 418-8268
FP & Fin. Services Counselornkallab@noahcdc.org
(617) 418-8263
First-Time Homebuyer & Homeowner
Advocatecsuarez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8261
Assistant Property Manager
617-418-8247
Administrative Assistant
617-567-5882
Real Estate Project Manageralambert@noahcdc.org
(617) 418-8262
Homelessness Prevention Case
Managerccarrillo@noahcdc.org
617-418-8257
Housing Stability Case
Manageriris@noahcdc.org
617-418-8264
Lead Homelessness Prevention Case
Managerapena@noahcdc.org
617-418-9122
Senior Homeowner Services Manager
adandrea@noahcdc.org
617-418-8265
PT Asst. Carpenter
Assistant Property Manager
dpratt@noahcdc.org
617-418-8247
Administrative Assistant
gorellanav@noahcdc.org
617-567-5882
Property Management Director
mnelson@noahcdc.org
617-418-8245
Foreclosure Prevention
cgrajalest@noahcdc.org
(617) 418-8268
FTHB Coordinator/HO Counselor
csuarez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8261
Homeownership Services Admin. Assistant
cescobar@noahcdc.org
617-418-8243
First-Time Homebuyer & Homeowner
Advocate
ltoledo@noahcdc.org
617-418-8244
Real Estate Project Manager
alambert@noahcdc.org
617 418-8262
Lead EHAP/Homelessness Prev. Case Manager
acoco@noahcdc.org
617-418-8260
Housing Stability Case Manager
ccarrillo@noahcdc.org
617-418-8257
Housing Stability Case Manager
pgauthier@noahcdc.org
617-418-8264
Senior Homeowner Services Manager
adandrea@noahcdc.org
617-418-8265
Fundraising and Communications
Associate
edoherty@noahcdc.org
617-418-7813
Sr. Staff Accountant
sli@noahcdc.org
617-418-8251
Youth Coordinator/Community Organizer
kflores@noahcdc.org
(617) 567-5882 Ext. 241
Senior Community Organizer
mmendez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8242
Junior Community Organizer
gorellanav@noahcdc.org
(617) 567-5882 Ext. 244
Assistant Property Manager
dpratt@noahcdc.org
617-418-8247
Administrative Assistant
gorellanav@noahcdc.org
617-567-5882
Property Management Director
mnelson@noahcdc.org
617-418-8245
Foreclosure Prevention
cgrajalest@noahcdc.org
(617) 418-8268
FTHB Coordinator/HO Counselor
csuarez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8261
Homeownership Services Admin. Assistant
cescobar@noahcdc.org
617-418-8243
First-Time Homebuyer & Homeowner
Advocate
ltoledo@noahcdc.org
617-418-8244
Real Estate Project Manager
alambert@noahcdc.org
617 418-8262
Lead EHAP/Homelessness Prev. Case Manager
acoco@noahcdc.org
617-418-8260
Housing Stability Case Manager
ccarrillo@noahcdc.org
617-418-8257
Housing Stability Case Manager
pgauthier@noahcdc.org
617-418-8264
Senior Homeowner Services Manager
adandrea@noahcdc.org
617-418-8265
Fundraising and Communications
Associate
edoherty@noahcdc.org
617-418-7813
Sr. Staff Accountant
sli@noahcdc.org
617-418-8251
Youth Coordinator/Community Organizer.
kflores@noahcdc.org
(617) 567-5882 Ext. 241
Senior Community Organizer
mmendez@noahcdc.org
617-418-8242
Junior Community Organizer.
aorellana@noahcdc.org
(617) 567-5882 Ext. 244
City of Boston Climate Change & Environmental Planning Project Manager
Vice President & Residential Loan Officer, Rockland Trust
Interim Treasurer
Sr. Real Estate Dev. Project Mgr., Madison Park CDC
Family Center Coordinator, Boston Public Schools
Court Victim Witness Advocate, Suffolk County DA’s Office
Interim President Retired, former Director of Advocacy, MACDC
Clerk Retired; Community Activist & Volunteer
Registry Office, City of Boston
Assistant Manager, Napoles Restaurant
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In 2016, NOAH received a 3-year Grant Award from The Kresge Foundation to advance its climate change resiliency efforts through the ClimateCARE program, which focuses on community engagement, collaboration with the City of Boston on its Climate Action Plan, and forming the Adaptation Planning Working Group for coordinated climate resilience strategies.
In 2019, NOAH partnered with New York University on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project: Integrative Resilience for the SCALE UP East Boston initiative, which aims to enhance social cohesion, adaptation, and leadership during emergencies. Final results will be posted soon.
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The Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) is now in its thirty-fifth year as an award-winning multi-service non-profit community development corporation (CDC).