Private Sector Funders
While increasing the number of available affordable housing units is a major goal of the Polk County Housing Trust Fund we recognize that without proper support services lower income persons risk never being able to access or retain those units. Non-profit agencies operating in Polk County are the source of those services and the PCHTF allocates funding for them.
Each year the Trust Fund manages a combined fund raising campaign for housing services in the business community. Acting as the umbrella organization for five respected providers the PCHTF makes calls on local businesses and foundations that see affordable housing as a community priority.
Business is increasingly recognizing that affordable housing is an issue directly related to its success. Much work has been done in this community that recognizes the importance of quality of life to workforce growth and retention and to enhancing competitive educational opportunities across the entire age spectrum. Providing affordable housing impacts each of these areas. Investing in affordable housing is a good business decision.
The following organizations generously support the combined campaign of the Polk County Housing Trust Fund: (December 2010-December 2011)
- Prairie Meadows
- Principal Financial Group
- Nationwide Insurance Foundation
- Wells Fargo
- United Way of Central Iowa
- Bankers Trust
- Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
- Bank of America
- Pioneer Hi-Bred
- Aviva Charitable Foundation
- Citi
- Great Western Bank
- West Bank
- W. T. and Edna M. Dahl Trust Fund
- Bank of the West
- American Enterprise Group
- Conlin Family Iowa Charitable Giving Fund
- EMC Insurance Companies
- Great Southern Bank
- Snyder & Associates
- RDG Planning & Design
- MetaBank
- Northwest Bank
- US Bank
- Hubbell Realty Company
- LSB Foundation
- Lorenz & Jones Marine Distributors, Inc.
- Connie Wimer Trust
