Mercy Housing Grant



Organization - Mercy Housing
Grant Amount - $240,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs associated with the potential merger of a national affordable housing provider with a supportive housing agency that serves homeless adults and families in metropolitan Chicago, and documenting the lessons learned to develop a framework for how to address scale in the supportive housing industry through a merger/acquisition business model


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