Faulkner, Henderson and Pfeiffer to Join Council
ATLANTA, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
(FHLBank Atlanta) announced today that it has appointed three new members
to its Affordable Housing Advisory Council. Council members will serve
three-year terms that began Jan. 1, 2008. The new members are:
Dr. Thomas G. Faulkner, III has served as president of the Nehemiah
Community Revitalization Corp. since 1993. During his career, he has served
in several housing and community development positions throughout the Mid-
Atlantic, including roles as director of renewal and development with the
city of Greenville, S.C. and management intern with the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. Faulkner has focused his professional career
on new construction and rehabilitation of housing, while his graduate
studies focused on the creation of successful partnerships between churches
and economically- deprived neighborhoods. His projects have included
developing rental housing for families and special-needs populations, such
as the homeless, as well as developing single-family homes in subdivisions
and scattered lots. Faulkner, a co-founder of Greenville County Habitat for
Humanity, recently earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Erskine
Theological Seminary and holds a master's degree in urban studies from
University of Chicago.
Jane N. Henderson currently serves as president of Virginia Community
Capital. A more than 24-year veteran of the banking industry, Henderson
formerly served as the community development executive for Wachovia Corp.,
where she managed all aspects of the community development operations,
lending and compliance portfolio for ten years. She has also served as a
board member of the Community Development Trust and a member of the
Community Bankers Association Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) committee.
She is currently the director of Community Housing Partners Corp. and the
chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Community Advisory
Council. Henderson holds a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College in
Pennsylvania and a Master of Finance from St. Joseph's University.
Earl Allen Pfeiffer has served as executive director of Florida Home
Partnership, Inc., an organization that has built more than 80 new
affordable homes each year, since 1997. Prior to joining Florida Home
Partnership, Pfeiffer was general manager of Pfeiffer Affordable Homes, a
private-sector partner with the city of Tampa's Challenge Fund housing
program. Pfeiffer has more than 30 years experience in the construction
industry, and 20 years experience in affordable housing in the Tampa Bay
region. Pfeiffer is an advocate for affordable housing both locally and
nationally, and serves on the boards of the Florida Community Loan Fund,
the Florida Housing Coalition and the Rural Housing Coalition in
Washington, D.C. Pfeiffer spent two years studying construction technology
at College of DuPage and is a State Certified Residential Homebuilder.
About FHLBank Atlanta
FHLBank Atlanta offers low-cost financing, community development
grants, and other banking services to help more than 1,200 member financial
institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic
development credit to neighborhoods and communities. The Bank's members --
its shareholders and customers -- are commercial banks, credit unions,
thrifts, and insurance companies headquartered in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the
District of Columbia. FHLBank Atlanta provides funding for affordable
housing, economic development, and down payment assistance initiatives that
have resulted in over $5 billion in loans and grants since 1990.
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Bank's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations,
assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which may
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factors, including: future economic and market conditions; changes in
demand for advances or consolidated obligation; changes in interest rates;
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and adverse developments or events affecting or involving other FHLBanks or
the FHLBank System in general. Additional factors that might cause the
Bank's results to differ from these forward-looking statements are
contained in the Bank's annual and quarterly reports, available on the
Bank's website at http://www.fhlbatl.com.
SOURCE Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
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