Neighborhood Development Collaborative

Name

Neighborhood Development Collaborative

Legal name

Neighborhood Development Collaborative

Website

https://ndcollaborative.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Grants and Donations: NDC operates as a non-profit coalition funded through grants, donations, and member contributions. The organization does not generate revenue from products or services but relies on philanthropic support to fund advocacy, research, and programming activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

NDC is a coalition of 22 to 25 Colorado-based non-profits and housing authorities that coordinates collective advocacy, research, education, and programming to expand affordable housing options, fight displacement, provide financial health services for residents, and create homeownership pathways through community land trusts and assistance programs. It also operates the Community Alert Database (CAD) as a data tool to help communities assess property ownership and resist speculation.

Product overview

Neighborhood Development Collaborative is a coalition of 22-25 Colorado-based non-profits and housing authorities offering a unified set of housing advocacy and support programs. The organization operates through collective advocacy at local, state, and federal levels, direct housing support services (rental assistance, homeownership counseling, home repair), financial health programming for residents, and capacity building through the COBRE Community of Practice and CORE Academy. Key products include the Community Alert Database (CAD), a data tool for property research and displacement resistance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coalition & Collective Advocacy
• Housing Support Services
• Research & Education
• Financial Health Programming
• Community Owned and Benefiting Real Estate (COBRE) Community of Practice
• Community Real Estate (CORE) Academy
• Community Alert Database (CAD)

Quantifiable outcome

• 30,000+ households supported with affordable housing opportunities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNDC works with NCRC to guide bank investment strategy in Colorado through Community Benefits Agreement negotiations. NDC led Colorado's largest-ever delegation to NCRC Hill Day advocating for affordable housing at the federal level. NCRC facilitated CBA negotiations with KeyBank bringing millions in funding to local communities.
• Mile High ConnectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNDC stewarded legacy work from Mile High Connects including adoption of the Community Alert Database (CAD). MHC partnership with Los Angeles and Bay Area advocates through SPARCC support enabled data democratization tool development.
• Center for Community Wealth BuildingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNDC partners with CCWB to cultivate the Community Owned and Benefitting Real Estate (COBRE) Community of Practice with monthly gatherings for policy, funding, and shared learning. Provided technical assistance for affordable housing projects including Tierra Colectiva CLT, East Colfax Community Collective, and others.
• Financial Health InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNDC led development of person-centered and culturally responsive financial health programming in partnership with Financial Health Institute for households along East Colfax corridor.
• Colorado Housing Finance Authority (CHFA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNDC partnered with CHFA to share cost of Community Alert Database data updates, as CHFA uses similar data to identify properties for affordable housing preservation.
• Rocky Mountain CommunitiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization partner in East Colfax financial health programming initiative.
• East Colfax Community Collective (EC3)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in East Colfax financial health programming, working to preserve naturally-occurring affordable rental housing through Mixed Income Neighborhood Trust (MINT).
• Tierra Colectiva Community Land TrustminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOBRE Community of Practice technical assistance recipient. Neighbor-led CLT in Globeville Elyria-Swansea focused on affordable housing development, land acquisition, and community organizing.
• Abundant GroundminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOBRE Community of Practice technical assistance recipient. Congregational housing initiative through Mile High Ministries focused on developing affordable housing on under-utilized congregation land.
• FreshLo HubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOBRE Community of Practice technical assistance recipient. Montbello Organizing Committee initiative - mixed-use development with 97 units of affordable housing with grocery store and community space.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• National Housing Conference: National non-partisan housing policy advocacy organization. Comparable to NDC's research, education, and federal-level advocacy functions, though operating nationally rather than at the regional coalition scale.
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): National non-profit that supports local community development organizations through funding, technical assistance, and policy advocacy. Comparable to NDC's coalition-coordination, capacity-building, and policy-influence model, but at national scope and far larger scale.
• Enterprise Community Partners: National non-profit CDFI and affordable housing advocacy/investment organization. Highly comparable to NDC as a coalition-builder driving policy, capital, and capacity for affordable housing, though operating nationally rather than at the state-coalition scale NDC occupies.
• Habitat for Humanity International: Large international non-profit building affordable housing. Comparable to NDC as a coalition member ecosystem and homeownership advocate, though at vastly larger scale and with a direct-construction (rather than coalition-advocacy) model.

Direct peers

• National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC): National coalition of fair-lending and community development organizations that, like NDC, brokers CBA negotiations with banks and coordinates Hill Day advocacy. NDC is explicitly an NCRC partner, and the two organizations share direct operational overlap in CRA/CBA work.
• Grounded Solutions Network: National membership network for community land trusts and shared-equity homeownership programs. Comparable to NDC's stewardship of CLTs and shared-equity models (e.g., Tierra Colectiva, Elevation CLT), with a similar coalition-and-capacity-building model.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition: National advocacy organization dedicated to ending the affordable housing crisis for extremely low-income households. Comparable to NDC's policy advocacy and Hill Day work (NDC led the largest Colorado delegation), with similar grant/foundation funding model.
• Housing Partnership Network: Membership network of the nation's leading affordable housing non-profits. Closely comparable to NDC's coalition-of-housing-non-profits model, providing peer learning, innovation, and policy influence for member organizations.
• Mile High Connects: Denver-metro cross-sector collaborative focused on equitable development and transit-oriented housing. NDC inherited key legacy work from Mile High Connects (including the Community Alert Database), and the two share a near-identical coalition model in the same Front Range geography.

Emerging players

• Center for Community Progress: National non-profit focused on equitable, sustainable revitalization of vacant and abandoned properties. Partially comparable to NDC's displacement-prevention and community-ownership work via the Community Alert Database, though focused on vacancy rather than housing affordability more broadly.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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