I’ve pursued social justice for many years. I believe that affordable housing, healthcare and other grass-roots nonprofit organizations help drive social and economic change in this country. By working closely with them, we produce housing, stabilize families, build wealth, and strengthen communities.
Daniel Ehrenberg, a retired partner, focuses his practice primarily on community-based, small, and grassroots nonprofits, tenant associations, coops and CDFI lenders. He counsels public and nonprofit clients. Dan has extensive experience with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), FHA-insured loans, HUD projects, affordable housing developments, preservations, community land trusts, nonprofit mergers and combinations, tenant purchases, cooperative conversions, and community economic developments.
Dan assists his clients in negotiations, works through regulatory requirements, closes their transactions, protects them from undue risks, and counsels them on operations, always looking out for benefits for their clients. He also assists them with corporate governance issues. Dan’s client base includes several community land trusts involved in home ownership and shared equity efforts. He drafts and reviews their contracts and other legal documents, walks them through processes and procedures to be able to close and implement their projects.
Always developing close relationships with those he represents, Dan greatly appreciates dedication of nonprofits that are changing the housing paradigm to a more inclusive model. He, first, gains an in-depth understanding of his clients’ needs and then collaborates with them to determine how best to move forward to fulfill their goals and visions.
Dan is passionate about volunteering in the community and often handles pro bono work, including legislative work in Maryland. He chairs the National Housing Trust Community Development Fund also serves on the board of directors of the Community Development Network of Maryland. Dan has taught courses and seminars on nonprofit management and governance, and the legal aspects of lending.
Dan’s prior experience is rooted in community development and nonprofits, serving at Volunteers of America, Neighborworks® America and various community development nonprofit organizations. He also was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania doing freshwater fish culture.
I believe that you need to work with one person or one organization at a time to change the world. I collaborate with my clients to achieve these goals so they can help others. I gain a greater understanding of the issues that marginalized clients face as a result of my clients’ activities.
