Hanging in Laura Escobar’s office is a comic strip showing several unusually small football players. One tells the other, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”   

The Mortgage Bankers Association recently announced the launch of the CONVERGENCE Collaborative, a new charitable organization to help address the racial homeownership gap. The Collaborative will deploy more than $1 million over each of the next three years to build on the existing network of place-based CONVERGENCE sites focused on expanding minority homeownership.