A collage of five images. A group of children on a field trip to the Indianapolis Children's Museum during WIN's Summer Camp. Two women smiling and taking notes during one of WIN's Homebuyer Training Classes. A small brick and panel house. A man tending to the Community Garden. A blue two-story house.
A collage of five images. A group of children on a field trip to the Indianapolis Children's Museum during WIN's Summer Camp. Two women smiling and taking notes during one of WIN's Homebuyer Training Classes. A small brick and panel house. A man tending to the Community Garden. A blue two-story house.

Our Mission

Empower people to make informed choices for themselves and their neighborhoods through community building, homeownership, and economic learning.

Our Programs

Homeownership

Owning a home is an integral part of
belonging to a community.

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Financial Literacy

Being smart about managing money
is the first step.

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Community Building

Strong communities make
strong individuals, perpetually.

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Our Work

Since 1978, Working In Neighborhoods has revitalized communities and helped families gain equity by renovating and building homes for first time homeowners, providing financial literacy training, and training neighborhood residents to work together to improve their own communities. Leveraging partnerships with national and local lenders, WIN has produced over $700 million in conventional mortgage loans all invested in Cincinnati’s low and moderate income neighborhoods.

OUR IMPACT
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Invested in Local Neighborhoods
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Homes Saved from Foreclosure

Sustaining Sponsors

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Logo of PNC Bank.
Logo of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Fast Park, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of First Financial Bank, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Flagel Huber Flagel, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Integra Group, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Messer Construction Company, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Union Savings Bank, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of Guardian Savings Bank, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.
Logo of LISC Greater Cincinnati, a sustaining sponsor of Working In Neighborhoods.

OUR PROCESS
FOR BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

Give residents the tools they need to improve their credit scores and comfortably buy their first home, avoid predatory lending practices.

Working In Neighborhoods builds new homes on vacant lots and rehabs homes that are in disrepair, focusing on energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades whenever possible to help ensure low energy bills. We then sell the homes to local residents who are ready to become first-time homeowners.

As more new and rehabbed homes are added to the community the housing stock improves.

As the housing stock improves, housing prices start to recover, and homeowners begin to see their investments in their homes increase.

WIN works with residents to create a strategic action plan and trains residents in how to work together with local governments to make needed improvements, resolve community challenges, and build strong community bonds.

All these elements work together to help WIN create sustainable, resilient communities that work together to make their neighborhoods enjoyable and thriving places to live.

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