Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund and Catholic Healthcare West Collaborate to Assist Nonprofit Organizations

Sacramento, CA - June 19, 2007-Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund (NCRF), a nonprofit community development loan fund based in Sacramento, California, today announced that it has joined with Catholic Healthcare West to make two loans to Sacramento-area nonprofit organizations. PEACE for Families (PFF), also known as Placer Women's Center, received an 18-month, $1 million construction loan to construct a new 44-bed shelter in Auburn for survivors of rape and domestic abuse. The facility will also house the organization's administrative offices. PFF provides critically needed emergency and transitional housing to especially vulnerable members of our community. This new facility will enable PFF to provide shelter services to 500 clients annually and serve 3,000 clients annually in all of its programs.

River Oak Center for Children (ROCC) received a four year, $3 million construction and permanent loan to construct two buildings totaling 25,000 square feet on its mental health services campus in Carmichael. ROCC provides essential mental health services to 900 children per day. Construction of these two buildings will complete the build-out of the organization's mental health campus, which includes 44-beds for residential treatment, and enable the co-location of ROCC's counseling and education facilities with their administrative offices.

"NCRF is delighted to collaborate with Catholic Healthcare West to provide the affordable, flexible capital needed to build these important community facilities," said Peggy Jones, Director of Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund. "NCRF and CHW share a common goal of supporting nonprofit organizations providing housing and human services to underserved members of our community. By working collaboratively, we are able to maximize the impact of our capital to serve significant numbers of people while keeping the cost of capital low to the nonprofits with which we work."

Catholic Healthcare West's Community Investment Program provides expanded access to capital for underserved communities. Since 1992, our communities received more than $69 million through this program. CHW's below-market interest rate loans are offered to nonprofit organizations that work to improve the health and quality of life in their communities through the development of affordable housing for low-income families and seniors, community facilities such as child care and community clinics and workforce development. Types of CHW Community Investments are Direct Loan, Intermediary Loan, Line of Credit, Linked Deposit, Equity Capital and Guarantees.

For additional information, please contact:

Peggy Jones, Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund
pjones@nehemiahcorp.org
916-231-5226

Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund (NCRF) (www.ncrfund.org) is a nonprofit community development financial institution dedicated to providing capital and resources to revitalize low income and underserved communities throughout the United States. NCRF accomplishes this by leveraging investments in its revolving loan fund with its own capital to make below-market rate loans to community- and faith-based nonprofit and mission-based for profit organizations for affordable housing, community facilities and economic development projects. For more information, please visit www.ncrfund.org or call Peggy Jones at 916-231-5226. NCRF is an affiliate of Nehemiah Corporation of America, a national nonprofit organization specializing in the provision of down payment gift assistance to low and moderate income homebuyers.

About Catholic Healthcare West

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) headquartered in San Francisco, is a system of 42 hospitals and medical centers with more than 7,800 physicians and approximately 44,000 employees throughout California, Nevada and Arizona. In the Sacramento area, CHW operates Mercy General Hospital, Mercy Hospital of Folsom, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Woodland Healthcare and Mercy Medical Group (a service of CHW Medical Foundation), as well as Mercy Home Health, Hospice and Lifeline. In fiscal year 2006, CHW provided more than $465 million in community benefit and free care for the poor. For more information, please visit our Web site at mercysacramento.org.

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