VIDA Members

The Northeast Oregon Economic Development District is dedicated to helping individuals, businesses and communities in Baker, Union and Wallowa Counties. We offer IDAs for small businesses. Our workshops, business classes, business plan review, and business loans can help you accomplish your goals. With more than twenty years experience our knowledgeable staff is looking forward to connecting you with the resources you need. NEOEDD – Growing business and strengthening communities!

Our asset goal is homeownership. Siletz Reservation land is located in Siletz Oregon. Siletz has many services to help it’s members including a health clinic, self sufficiency support services, cultural center and a housing department. We currently have a Down Payment Assistance Program to help Tribal Members buy their first home. Along with the administrative department located in Siletz Oregon, we have three area offices located in Portland, Salem and Eugene to extend services to Tribal Members living in the valley.

Salem - Keizer CDC’s mission is to build community by stabilizing neighborhoods and empowering families. We create safe, high quality, affordable housing and provide families with opportunities and connections to community resources to achieve economic prosperity. Salem - Keizer CDC currently offers a variety of activities including, Rental housing, Homeownership Education, Financial Education, Micro-Enterprise Development Education, Individual Development Accounts and Resident Services. Offer all three asset-goals: Homeownership, Business, Education

Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services, a private nonprofit community development corporation, is committed to improving lives and strengthening neighborhoods through quality housing, homeownership, and economic opportunity and community partnerships. We offer the Valley IDA program for 3 asset goals: Microenterprise, Homeownership and Education.

CCLT provides permanently affordable homeownership opportunities and supportive educational resources to people of moderate means. CCLT develops and preserves affordable homeownership opportunities in Clackamas County. We also provide Homeownership Education and Financial Literacy programs. CCLT offers Individual Development Accounts through VIDA for income qualified persons wanting to save money for the purchase of their first home.

MIPO provides inventors and small business owners with consulting, trainings, and resources that focus on bringing their inventions to market as a means of diversifying Oregon's economy and increasing opportunities for solutions to societal challenges. MIPO works with entrepreneurs to move their inventions and conceptional models toward commercialization or licensing ventures. By doing so, local communities will benefit from an increase in higher-paying jobs and better opportunities for products to enter the market that were conceived in Oregon. By partnering with the Avita Business Center, MIPO also provides small business assistance to local entrepreneurs, while focusing on business development, growth, and analysis. MIPO and the Avita Business Center are working together to support Inventors and micro businesses by offering VIDA for small business funding. We are currently on a waiting list for the 2010 funding. Please contact our office for further information.

Northwest Oregon Housing Authority (NOHA) has been providing Housing Choice Vouchers for low income families living in Clatsop, Columbia, and Tillamook Counties since 1976. Beginning in October 1994, NOHA began offering the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program to its clients. Since that time, we have had two people purchase homes subsequent to their participation in the FSS Program. We have a current caseload of 40 in the FSS Program. Some are pursuing home ownership, others education, and still others the development of a small business. NOHA will be working in conjunction with Clatsop Community Action to broaden our target base to qualifying families and individuals throughout Clatsop County who are not utilizing NOHA’s services. Together we will be providing support for Home Ownership and Education IDAs.

Housing Works assists lower income individuals and families through various programs such as the Housing Choice Voucher Programs (rental assistance) and the Section 8 Homeownership Program. We creatively and resourcefully work to meet our region’s affordable housing needs. Through the Family Self-Sufficiency Program, we also enter into partnerships with families to utilize community resources as tools to achieve financial independence. This program focuses on determination and written goals of our clients and supporting their decision to change. Housing Works provides assistance to over 1,600 families and has over 500 units of affordable housing throughout Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties, with another 100 units under development. Three Asset Goals We Offer: Assist families in acquiring and building their assets. Participating families are directed towards acquiring job skills, achieving home ownership and higher education. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate the stability, self-sufficiency, self-respect, and pride of families and individuals – by fostering dignity through affordable housing.

Mid-Columbia Housing Authority provides safe, decent, affordable housing to low income families in Wasco, Sherman, and Hood River counties in Oregon. Through the VIDA program we are able to assist families reach their goal of first time homeownership, going back to school, or to start/expand a small business.