Rita Arancibia

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  Published on: 10/31/2008    Last Visited: 11/2/2008  

  Rita Arancibia - Reader Submitted - October 31, 2008
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  Contact: Rita Arancibia, Director (931)648-6133 rita.arancibia@cityofclarksville.com
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  Rita Arancibia, Director, One Public Square, Suite 201, Clarksville, TN 37040, call 931-648-6133 or e-mail rita.arancibia@cityofclarskville.com.

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  Published on: 9/20/2008    Last Visited: 9/20/2008  

  "The mission of this office is to bring needs and resources together," said Rita Arancibia, director of Clarksville's OHCD.
  
  "We help anyone who comes through the doors who meets the qualifications."
  
  Over the course of three days in February, HUD officials reviewed not only the practices of Arancibia's office, but also those of other agencies that receive funding from the OHCD, such as the Salvation Army, United Way, Buffalo Valley and others.
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  Arancibia said she and her staff were fully confident the review would not make any findings.
  
  "What's most frustrating," she said, "is the time that it's taken to pull all the documents together to prepare for the review."
  
  In addition to the three days the HUD team spent in Clarksville, Arancibia said her office has spent months continuing to compile information on their behalf.
  
  "It's just very, very sad," Arancibia said.

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  Published on: 6/4/2009    Last Visited: 8/15/2009  

  Mayor Piper expressed appreciation to former director Rita Arancibia who recently resigned.

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  Rita Arancibia - Reader Submitted - October 31, 2008
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  For more information contact: Rita Arancibia, Director, 931-648-6133 or e-mail rita.arancibia@cityofclarksville.com
  
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  Published on: 7/12/2008    Last Visited: 7/12/2008  

  According to Rita Arancibia, director of Clarksville's OHCD, seven homes throughout Clarksville will receive roof repairs.
  
  Three homes in the Brandon Hills area will also get paint jobs, Arancibia said, adding that the families were selected by OHCD on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  
  ReConstruct volunteers will use First Baptist Church as their home base, Arancibia said.
  
  Because ReConstruct volunteers, who come from across the country, offer the free labor, Arancibia said it allows her office to "leverage the federal funds that we get."
  
  "We just help pay for the supplies," Arancibia said.
  
  ReConstruct was originally scheduled to visit Clarksville in 2005, but had to take a rain check when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
  
  "This project has been on the table for a long while," Arancibia said, adding that ReConstruct is already scheduled to return to Clarksville in 2009.

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  Published on: 3/25/2007    Last Visited: 3/25/2007  

  Rita Arancibia, the city's Community Development manager said the old Acme site will be used by Nashville developer Robert Pullen to build the second of two affordable housing projects on Crossland Avenue to serve tenants who make 50 to 60 percent of the median income or less.

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  Published on: 5/1/2009    Last Visited: 9/5/2009  

  Rita Arancibia, director of the city's Office of Housing and Community Development lead the meeting. She was assisted by members of her staff.

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  Published on: 4/2/2009    Last Visited: 8/15/2009  

  Director Rita Arancibia said the awarded contract will contain a covenant that will allow the City to monitor the use of the property for twenty years. The following vote was recorded:

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  Published on: 8/5/2008    Last Visited: 8/5/2008  

  Rita Arancibia, director of the city's Office of Housing and Community Development — which helps put nonprofits in touch with one another and funnels grant monies to eligible agencies — said nonprofits are always important to a community, but especially during an economic downturn.
  
  "I think a lot of times we don't think about the vital role our nonprofits play in a community," Arancibia said.
  
  While the economy has an obvious effect on nonprofits, Arancibia said nonprofits also can affect the economy.
  
  She noted the volunteer labor on which most social service agencies rely, which can amount to millions of dollars of in-kind donations to a community.These volunteers, Arancibia said, help families keep their utilities on and their mortgages paid, preventing a further depression on the economy.
  
  It's that backbone of volunteers that Arancibia fears could weaken in today's economic climate, limiting the effectiveness of nonprofits.
  
  "You've got all these volunteers that are being affected by the economy," Arancibia said.
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  Arancibia said the decline in volunteers may not be evident yet, but noted it may not remain the case as such declines have been seen elsewhere.
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  Arancibia said an increasingly important part of nonprofits will be marketing.
  
  "In a downturn, you have to be careful about your marketing dollars," she said, "but you certainly don't want to just stop it altogether."
  
  "(Marketing) is going to be essential to retaining and increasing revenue at this time," she said, adding that the marketing should tie funding to outcomes.
  
  Arancibia said it's also "gotten to a point" where nonprofits "need to become a little more innovative in their thinking."
  
  In particular, she said they need to diversify their sources of income, so they can better withstand times of economic uncertainty.
  
  As an example, she pointed to the rise in what she calls "entrepreneurial nonprofits" — agencies that have a product, such as the multicolored issue bracelets that were recently in style.
  
  "If I were a nonprofit," Arancibia said, "I'd be making a headway toward investigating that."

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  www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20090106/NEIGHBORHOODS - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/5/2009    Last Visited: 1/6/2009  

  Contact: Rita Arancibia, Director

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