To RSVP the event please register here.

Faith Bautista Apperance in Balitang America

Our CEO, Faith Bautista, appeared in Balitang America to discuss the Making Home Affordable program and the current home foreclosure crisis. She provides insight how Mabuhay Alliance have assisted homeowners who are in distress with their mortgage.

Mabuhay Alliance has helped hundreds of homeowners save their home by assisting them throughout the Making Home Affordable process. We work as an advocate on the homeowners behalf. Because of our close working relationship with most major lending institutions, our success rate in getting the homeowner’s loan modified is much higher than the national average.

Click on the image above to view the video of her appearance.

We are proud to announce the upcoming Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego, celebrating the diversity of cultures, ethnicities, and peoples from Asia and the Pacific Islands in San Diego! This festival will be held on Saturday, May 8,  2010 at the NTC Park  in Liberty Station, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.

There will be entertainment all day long, a children’s area, cultural exhibitions, Asian cooking demonstrations, retails booths, a martial arts and cultural stage, ethnic dances, food, and so much more!  Come out to this, fun, free, family- oriented festival and be emerged in the wonderful cultures present in San Diego.  The festival grounds will be at the NTC Park where Cushing Road meets Roosevelt Road in Point Loma.

The Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego goals are to 1) celebrate the diversity of our Asian populations for Asian Heritage Month, 2) support and preserve cultural harmony, 3) build intergenerational and intercultural bridges across all barriers, 4) and generate support for the programs of Mabuhay Alliance, a registered 501c3 nonprofit, which helps under served and minority communities.

Presented by Mabuhay Alliance.

Title Sponsor is Barona Resort and Casino – www.barona.com

www.asianculturalfestivalsd.com

FCC recently unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the U.S. broadband policy. In an effort to support the FCC plan and to broaden the discussion in the implementation of the policy, Mabuhay Alliance is hosting a panel discussion on digital inequality and bringing the underbanked into the banking system through broadband literacy.

Titled “Minorities Leading the Broadband Revolution”, the guest speaker of the event will be CPUC Commissioner Nancy Ryan.

The event will be held at The Center at Cathedral Plaza on 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, on April 12, 2010.

Event registration opens at 10:00 am. Panel discussion will be held from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm. Light lunch will be served during the event.

To RSVP for the event, please register here.

Click on the attached flyer below for more information about the event.

For more information, please contact:
Mia Martinez
(858) 444 – 6293
e-mail: mia@mabuhayalliance.org

Mabuhay Alliance main office:
(858) 586 – 7382
e-mail: info@mabuhayalliance.org

The workshop will present information how to do business with SDG&E and Southern California Gas.
Attendees will learn firsthand information from SDG&E and Southern California Gas procurement agents.

Speakers will include Carmen Herrera, Director of Diverse Business Enterprises, and Caroline Winn, Director of Supply Management at Sempra Energy.

When: Thrusday, March 4, 2010, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Where: Spectrum Courtyard Marriott
8651 Spectrum Center Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92123

Cost: $10 for ABA and Partner Member; Non-Members: $15; At the Door: $20

Please call the ABA office at (858) 277-2822 ext 102 or you can call the Mabuhay Alliance office at (858) 537 – 1500.

See the attached flyer for more information

Mabuhay Alliance’s next MTA course will be held at the PG&E Headquarters in San Francisco.

Dates: June 17, 18, 24, & 25.
Hours: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: PG&E Headquarters | 77 Beale St. #305 | San Francisco, CA 94105

All attendees will receive class credit and certification. To qualify, students are required to attend all class sessions. Students are expected to show up at least 20 minutes before the start of each class.

Seats fill up early. To get priority seating, please pre-register for the class here.
For more information, you can call our main office at (858) 586 – 7382.

Mabuhay Alliance, in coordination with Greenlining Institute, will a host a conference to discuss the impact of broadband on the Asian American community. Specifically, the panel will discuss the efforts that are needed to reach out to various ethnic Asian American groups (i.e. how the Mong community will be targeted in a different manner than that of Korean, Filipino and Vietnamese communities). In addition, the discussion will also focus on the different programs and approaches of companies, corporations and the government targeted towards the new generation of Asian American immigrants.

The panel will be led by AT&T and Verizon, with expected participation from FTC, FCC and a number of major banks. AT&T, Verizon, First American and the FDIC are playing a major role in the panel. We are also expecting participation from the FCC and a major financial institution. The panel discussion will be facilitated by Samuel Kang, Managing Attorney at the Greenlining Institute.

The conference will be held on February 19, 2010.

To RSVP, please register here.

Click on the attached flyer below for more information about the event.

For more information, please contact:
Mia Martinez
(858) 444 – 6293
e-mail: mia@mabuhayalliance.org

Mabuhay Alliance main office:
(858) 586 – 7382
e-mail: info@mabuhayalliance.org

Please join HomeFree USA, Mabuhay Alliance and 300 mortgage, real estate, government, insurance and faith and community-based leaders for a FREE one-day conference, “Sustainable Homeownership for All”.

Please see the attached flyer for more details of the event.

For more information and hotel accommodations, please contact:
Rhea Aguinaldo
Phone: 858-449-6701
Email: rhea@mabuhayalliance.org

Mabuhay Alliance will hold foreclosure prevention clinics at the following locations:

Dates: December 21, 22, 23, 28, 29
Hours: 11AM – 8PM
Location: 1879 Lundy Avenue, Suite 136 San Jose, CA 95131
For more information, call (650) 991 – 5619

Dates: January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2010
Hours: 10AM – 3PM
Location: 2515 N. 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95131
website: www.4c.org

Dates: December 21, 22, 23
Hours: 4PM – 8PM
Location: AllenTemple Baptist Church
8501 International Blvd
Okland, CA 94621
Mary Morris Room
2nd Floor of Family Life Center
Hosted by The Prophetic Ministry of Allen Temple Church
website: www.allen-temple.org
Contact: (650) 991 – 5619

Dates: December 27, 28, 29
Location: 1607 Vassar Street, Reno, NV 89502
Contact: (775) 348 – 6547
Cell Phone: Bell Carreon – (619) 302 2610

Dates: December 28, 29, 30
Hours: 4PM – 8PM
Location: 9580 Black Mountain Road, Suite A, San Diego, CA 92126
Walk-ins welcome
Contact: (858) 586 – 7382

Dates: January 2, 3
Location: 3305 W. Spring Mountain Road
Suite 105 & 110
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Contact: (702) 347 2441

You can also contact Rhea Aguinaldo at (858) 449 6701 or you can e-mail her at rhea@mabuhayalliance.org.
You can also contact our main office at (858) 586 7382

The MTA class schedule has been changed to January 29 & 30 and February 5 & 6, 2010. Classes are scheduled from 9am 5pm. Please make note of the change. Mabuhay Alliance apologize for the inconvenience.

The class will still be held in our San Diego office located at 9580 Black Mountain Road, Suite A, San Diego, CA 92126. If you need more information, you can contact us at (858) 586 – 7382.

Seats fill up early. Reserve you seats now by filling out the registration form here.


See the flyer below for more information.

Announcements

Mabuhay Alliance has opened 3 new office locations to expand its home foreclosure prevention operation in California and Nevada. Each of the new office location provides full home foreclosure prevention support and outreach to homeowners who are highly affected by the current mortgage crisis.

Hundreds of homeowners have been helped by the highly dedicated staff of Mabuhay Alliance to assist them through a successful loan modification application process. In some cases, homeowners were able to keep their homes from a foreclosure sale that are only days or weeks away. More importantly, the dignity that is regained and the pride that a home ownership provides is immeasurable.

If you need immediate help with your mortgage situation, please fill out our intake form here.

To contact our staff and find the location nearest you, please click here.

Article from Washington Post
HomeFree-USA Director Marcia Griffin is quoted in the article

By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Troubled homeowners who receive housing counseling are 60 percent more likely to avoid foreclosure and have their mortgage payments lowered significantly than borrowers who navigate the process themselves, according to a study to be released Wednesday.
The study, by the D.C.-based Urban Institute, examines the effectiveness of the government-funded National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program, established in late 2007 to counter growing foreclosure rates. More than $300 million has been awarded to 1,700 nonprofit housing-counseling agencies since December 2007 to hire staff and conduct outreach to troubled borrowers.
In the Washington area, HomeFree-USA in Maryland and the Latino Economic Development Corp. and the Greater Washington Urban League in the District have received funding through the program.
The study compared a group of borrowers who received help through housing counselors with a control group who did not. Clients who saw a housing counselor and received a loan modification from their lenders had their monthly payments reduced on average $454 more than those who did not receive counseling, according to the report. Borrowers already seriously delinquent on their loans were 60 percent more likely to avoid foreclosure after meeting with a counselor as those who didn’t, the study said.
The foreclosure crisis has turned housing counselors into intermediaries between anxious homeowners and their overwhelmed lenders. But many nonprofit groups were unprepared at the beginning of the crisis and scrambled to hire enough staff and train them to handle foreclosure prevention rather than pre-purchase counseling.
The industry has since developed relationships with lenders that can speed the process, said Eileen Fitzgerald, chief operating officer for D.C.-based NeighborWorks, a nonprofit group that administers the program and commissioned the study. Many lenders, for example, now have dedicated phone and fax lines to tackle requests from nonprofit groups, she said.
“While it is still a challenge in being as responsive as we would like, it is better than what the homeowner faces” alone, Fitzgerald said.
Counselors can examine a borrower’s entire budget as well as assess the best ways to save the home, housing advocates have said.
So far, Congress has set aside $356 million for the foreclosure prevention counseling program, but it is considering an additional $60 million for the next fiscal year. About 730,000 homeowners have received foreclosure prevention counseling through the program so far, according to NeighborWorks.
“The average homeowner is scared,” said Marcia Griffin, director of HomeFree-USA. “It’s not that these people are ignorant, but the stuff is so convoluted, they need someone to help them plow through these issues.”

MEDIA ALERT

Contact:
Mia Martinez, Deputy Director
Rhea Aguinaldo, Media Outreach
858-444-6293
mia@mabuhayalliance.org

Home Foreclosure Crisis Showdown in D.C.
Led by San Diego’s Mabuhay Alliance

On Tuesday, November 17th, Mabuhay Alliance and 25 major HUD-approved nonprofit home foreclosure organizations will be meeting with four major banks, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and Ocwen to present their Magna Carta or Bills of Rights for homeowners facing foreclosure. The press release they will be issuing tomorrow is attached with the six Magna Carta principles. This includes a one-year Foreclosure Moratorium for all unemployed homeowners.

The next day, November 18th, Mabuhay and HomeFree-USA will be joined by 100 homeowners for a protest demonstration and press conference outside the Secretary of the Treasury’s office. They will be criticizing his preference for Goldman Sachs over Main Street homeowners. They will then march to the White House and seek to meet with President Obama’s Chief Economic Advisor, Larry Summers.

Mabuhay Alliance also has meetings on November 16th with the leadership from the Federal Reserve, FDIC, Freddie Mac and HUD on the home foreclosure crisis and its Magna Carta for homeowners.

The Executive Director of Mabuhay Alliance Faith Bautista and Deputy Director Mia Martinez will be available for interviews at their Mabuhay home counseling office at 2:00 pm tomorrow Friday, November 13th. A number of staff members doing home counseling for San Diego residence facing foreclosure will also be available.

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