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ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center Donates $7500 to Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation

   L to R: Stanley Rhodes, ABN AMRO Mortgage Group vice chairman; Josephus Eggelletion, Jr., Broward county commissioner; Opal Jones, Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation executive director; Marc Strampel, ABN AMRO Mortgage Group senior vice president, business development. (PRNewsFoto)

SUNRISE, FL USA
    SUNRISE, Fla., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.,
(AAMG) one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders, recently donated
$7,500.00 to the Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation, Inc., as part of
the grand opening celebration of its first Florida retail mortgage lending
office, ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center.  The donation will support
the Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation's mission to increase the ability
of low- and moderate-income families to attain home ownership.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050623/DETH015 )
    "ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center is committed to supporting the
homeownership needs of its local community," said Marc Strampel, AAMG senior
vice president, business development.  "Supporting the Miami-Dade Affordable
Housing Foundation was a natural decision; ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending
Center and The Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation share a common goal to
create opportunities to increase homeownership in underserved markets."
    "The donation from ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center will help
defray the administrative costs associated with providing home buyer education
and counseling services to first-time home buyers," said Opal A. Jones,
executive director, Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation.  "This
partnership with ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center is critical to
Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation's goals to generate wealth in low and
moderate income communities by ushering buyers through the homeownership
process.  We are excited about this new venture."
    The Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation promotes and supports
homeownership through its community and educational outreach activities, and
by providing homebuyers with education, counseling, and homebuyer training
workshops.
    ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center is located in Sawgrass Point at
1000 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, near the intersection of 136th Avenue and I-
595.  The retail facility offers a variety of mortgage lending products and
services to Realtors, homebuilders and consumers.  Consumers seeking more
information should call 866-844-8400.
    In addition to the ABN AMRO Mortgage-Sunrise Lending Center, AAMG's
National Lending Center and Sunrise Retail Fulfillment Center are located at
1000 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway.  AAMG's mortgage.com and ABN AMRO Capital
Markets divisions are also located in south Florida.

    About ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.
    ABN AMRO Mortgage Group is one of the largest loan originators and loan
servicers in the United States.  ABN AMRO Mortgage Group produces mortgage
loans and provides related services through its various divisions.  ABN AMRO
Mortgage Group has approximately 3,000 employees located throughout the United
States.

    About ABN AMRO N.V.
    Netherlands-based ABN AMRO is a leading international bank with total
assets of EUR 742.9 bln (as of March 31, 2005).  It has over 3,000 branches in
more than 60 countries and territories, and has a staff of about 97,000 full-
time equivalents worldwide.  ABN AMRO is listed on the Euronext and New York
stock exchanges.

    About Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation, Inc.
    The Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3)
corporation operating in the State of Florida with the ability to lend money
under its FDIC sponsored CDFI charter.  The Foundation provides community
homebuyer education classes in English and Spanish; Employer Assisted Housing
(EAH) programs, gap financing for qualified buyers and prepares first-time
home buyers to participate in the Miami Dade County Housing Finance
Authority's Bond program.


SOURCE ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.




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