MBA: Opens Doors Foundation Completes Record-Setting Fundraising Season

The Mortgage Bankers Association Opens Doors Foundation reached its 2016/2017 fundraising campaign goal of $1.5 million during its recent annual convention, the foundation announced yesterday. 

The Mortgage Bankers Association Opens Doors Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing assistance to families with a critically ill or injured child by making the family’s mortgage or rent payment. It currently works directly with nine children’s hospitals to identify families in need. 

“Providing individuals and families with safe, sound and affordable homes fuels our desire to go to work every day,” said Debra Still, CMB, Opens Doors Foundation Chairman and CEO of Pulte Mortgage. “Opens Doors has provided critical relief for families who are balancing medical expenses, job loss and other financial demands while sitting beside their child’s hospital bed.”

Still noted that the foundation has distributed nearly one million dollars in housing payments to more than 660 families in 20 states. 

MBA Opens Doors donors also fielded 15 runners in the 2016 TCS New York City Marathon, raising more than $63,000–126 percent of the original goal.

MBA Opens Doors also announced that it will participate in Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving for communities around the world, on Tuesday, November 29th. To participate by giving to MBA Opens Doors, click here and select #GivingTuesday in the “Gift Designation” drop down.

Donations to MBA Opens Doors Foundation are always accepted at www.mbaopensdoors.org or by texting “ODF” to 20222 to make a one-time $25 donation from your mobile phone. You can also designate MBA Opens Doors as your AmazonSmile beneficiary at smile.amazon.com.

At the MBA Annual Convention and Expo in Boston, the foundation premiered a new video featuring families that have received grants. You can view the video here

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Guardians
–Arch MI
—CMG Foundation
–PrimeLending
–Pulte Group / Pulte Financial Services
–SWBC Mortgage
–Union Home Mortgage

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Champions
–Bank of America
–CalAtlantic Mortgage/CalAtlantic Homes
–CoreLogic
–Cornerstone Home Lending
–First American
–Fidelity National / Black Knight / ServiceLink
–Lennar/UAMC
–M&T Bank
–Quicken Loans
–Radian Guaranty
–SunTrust Mortgage
–Taylor Morrison Home Funding
–Teraverde
–US Bank
–Wells Fargo

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Partners
–Chase
–Colonial Savings
–Impac Mortgage
–New American Funding
–Success Mortgage Partners
–Towne Mortgage

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Friends
–Alliance Home Loans
–CBRE
–HomeStreet Bank
–McLean Mortgage
–Meritage Homes/MTH Mortgage
–Walker & Dunlop

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Fan
–VantageScore Solutions

Opens Doors is currently able to pass on 100 percent of the donations it receives to families in need of assistance. Potential recipients of the grants are identified through the foundation’s ongoing relationship with children’s hospitals in Washington D.C., Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston and now northern and southern California. Opens Doors is a 501(c)(3) organization and all contributions are tax deductible.  

For more information about the Foundation or to make a donation, please visit www.mbaopensdoors.org.