2025-2026 WDC Sponsors
Many thanks to our WDC sponsors!
Housing Opportunities Unlimited (Marble Sponsor)
Housing Opportunities Unlimited (HOU) works in a diverse range of affordable and mixed income public and subsidized housing and specializes in assisting tenants and residents that are in transition due to major redevelopment, renovation, or renovation-in-place construction projects in their communities. HOU’s Mission is to ensure that residents are treated fairly and experience minimum physical and emotional stress during the relocation process while ensuring that our clients’ projects are complete in a timely and cost-effective manner.
The Smart Agency (Marble Sponsor)
The Smart Agency® exists to advance commercial real estate and finance through effective communications. Through a variety of curated and customized Public Relations, Content, and Marketing services honed over 30 years, we deliver visibility and understanding that motivates and moves target audiences to action. The Smart Agency’s innovative strategies deliver bottom-line results to many of the most significant companies in the U.S. across property investment and fund management, asset and property management, retail, brokerage, development, capital markets, debt and structured finance, and construction spanning multifamily, retail, office, and industrial products.
Mithun (Steel Sponsor)
Mithun is a design firm. We leverage technology and integrated disciplines to advance design that serves individuals, communities and our planet. Research and development programs enable our teams and collaborators to transcend boundaries, reaching ever higher levels of design quality and impact. Our teams are structured to welcome ideas, reward collaboration and invite constant professional challenge. Staff-initiated programs—from Mithuniversity to ACE Mentors and Mithun Wellness—enrich our practice, enliven our workplace and open the door for new discoveries.
Van Meter Williams Pollack (Steel Sponsor)
Van Meter Williams Pollack is an award-winning Architecture and Urban Design firm based in San Francisco, Denver, and Minneapolis.
VMWP specializes in affordable housing, mixed-use and market-rate housing, master planning, land use and zoning standards that help communities accommodate change. VMWP takes a comprehensive and innovative design approach. We integrate client needs into sustainable design solutions that address climate resilience, social and economic equity, to create beautiful, inspiring communities where people can thrive.
Cox Castle (Brick Sponsor)
Cox Castle is one of the largest full-service law firms specializing in real estate in the United States, with more than 140 transactional and litigation attorneys in our Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Francisco offices. Our expertise spans all facets of law relevant to the real estate industry and related businesses. We help our clients navigate their most significant and complicated matters and pride ourselves on delivering the highest-quality legal services.
Cox Castle takes an interdisciplinary approach to transactional matters and dispute resolution, leveraging our broad range of expertise and our in-depth understanding of our clients' businesses. We take pride in staying current with developments in the law and their impact on our clients’ business plans. We are particularly skilled at identifying and devising solutions to our clients’ legal issues in a manner that advances our clients’ business goals.
Eden Housing (Brick Sponsor)
Eden Housing creates and sustains high-quality affordable housing communities that advance equity and opportunity for all. Eden Housing has worked in partnership with cities and local community partners to develop or acquire more than 11,937 homes in communities throughout California, currently serving a diverse population of 22,000 low-income residents from all cultures and backgrounds. Since our humble beginnings, more than 100,000 people have come home to an Eden community.
IHP Capital Partners (Brick Sponsor)
As one of the nation’s only residential investment firms, IHP Capital Partners (IHP) facilitates a path to success for its investor and development partners by providing equity for residential projects throughout the country with a focus on the western U.S. IHP’s track record is built on experience, expertise and long-term sustained partnerships with well-known institutional investors and a wide range of the industry’s most notable builders and developers, including firms led by women. To date, IHP has invested equity of more than $9.6 billion in residential housing and development projects. As a trusted fiduciary, IHP ensure alignment of capital goals through every step of a project’s life while providing transparency and insight to its investors.
Rose Community Capital (Brick Sponsor)
Rose Community Capital (RCC), a division of the Jonathan Rose Company Holdings, is a commercial lender with a particular focus upon the affordable and moderate-income multifamily asset class. RCC originates, underwrites and services various types of debt, including acquisition bridge loan, construction, and permanent loans. RCC is a mission-based lender that actively seeks out opportunities to work with women and minority led real estate developers that historically have faced high barriers to entry into the commercial asset sector. RCC is led by Kelly Boyer, an affordable housing industry veteran who leads a diverse team of professionals located throughout the country.
SvN Architects and Planners (Brick Sponsor)
With a history dating back 40 years, SvN Architects and Planners is a multidisciplinary design firm working to solve the greatest challenges faced by rapidly growing cities worldwide. Our team supports a diverse practice that includes full-scope architecture, policy and land use planning, development planning, urban design, landscape architecture and engagement services with proven experience bringing complex multi-stakeholder projects through all stages from initial conception to implementation and construction.
With a team of 180 planners, urban designers, architects and landscape architects, and studios in Toronto, Vancouver, and Mexico City, we guide both public- and private-sector projects in pursuit of value creation for stakeholders and quality of life for people and planet. We have developed new forms of affordable housing, reformed transit-oriented development, and designed resilient neighbourhoods that contribute to economic vitality in cities around the world.
Archipelago (Timber Sponsor)
Archipelago is a company focused on community development. Through Archipelago Advisory, we support housing developers, operators, regulators and capital providers. Through Archipelago Properties, we take on small-scale development projects and small-to-moderate acquisition projects in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.
Avison Young (Timber Sponsor)
Avison Young creates real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people. As a private company, our clients collaborate with an empowered partner who is invested in their success. Our integrated talent realizes the full potential of real estate by using global intelligence platforms that provide clients with insights and advantage. Together, we can create healthy, productive workplaces for employees, cities that are centres for prosperity for their citizens, and built spaces and places that create a net benefit to the economy, the environment and the community.
Cara Houser (Timber Sponsor)
Cara Houser is The Burnout Lady and a workplace engagement coach building burnout-free leaders and teams. Her first 20-year career was as a housing development leader in the SF Bay Area. She is also the author of the award-winning book: Burned Out to Lit Up: Ditch the Grind and Reclaim Your Life.
Connect 10 Strategy (Timber Sponsor)
Connect 10 Strategy creates and connects marketing strategy to business goals in the real estate ecosystem. We work with, real estate developers and owners, asset managers and sales and leasing teams to provide a cohesive strategy, roadmap, and effective implementation to drive awareness, consideration and conversion to projects.
We take our multidisciplinary experience in Real Estate Development, Architecture & Design, Tech, Innovation and Sustainability and work as an extension of your leadership team within your capacity and structure.
Development Collective (Timber Sponsor)
Using their expertise and relationships, The Development Collective focuses on land development to effectively manage complex acquisition, building design and planning approval processes for high density projects. Their co-founders oversaw development approvals for 100,000 units of housing and 20,000 acres of land, in addition to delivering high-density infill developments across the Greater Toronto Area.
HaydenTanner (Timber Sponsor)
HaydenTanner is a strategic advisory and development firm focused on accelerating impact investment & sustainability in the built environment. We firmly embed “triple bottom line” principles as a core part of any corporate and real estate investment strategy. Embedding climate risk, environmental, social and governance factors into strategic decision making is central to improving our clients’ long-term performance and risk reduction. What distinguishes us is a proactive intent to deploy capital that generates risk adjusted market rate returns while creating durable and measurable social and environmental value.
McCullough Landscape Architecture (Timber Sponsor)
An urban design and landscape architecture firm, McCullough is a group of curious dreamers influencing outdoor space by a mindful practice merging context and creative passion with grit, soul, and style. We believe each environment unveils a unique narrative embodying creativity, diversity, discovery, and conservation. Our design philosophy is rooted in empathy, community and the human spirit engaged in nature.
Number Mill Partners (Timber Sponsor)
Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services (Timber Sponsor)
Since 1981, Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. has worked to strengthen low-income families and neighborhoods through the promotion of affordable housing by providing affordable rentals to families and financial literacy.
Founded by a dedicated group of low-income Richmond residents, RNHS was established to reverse the adverse effects of systemic segregation, redlining, disinvestment, and blight. Today, RNHS has grown to serve the needs of over 7,500 families across the East Bay. RNHS continues to work for a more just and equitable society. RNHS is a HUD-approved Housing Counseling agency.
Rasheryl McCreary (Timber Sponsor)
Rasheryl McCreary, PCC, is the CEO of TAO Leadership Development, Inc. and an Executive Leadership Coach, bringing a distinctive perspective shaped by early work coaching high-performing male leaders in Fortune 500 technology organizations. She now works primarily with women leaders, helping them rise and thrive in complex, male-dominated environments by strengthening executive presence, influence, income, and authority. Rasheryl has coached and trained leaders at organizations including American Express, PayPal, HBO, Procter & Gamble, Capital One, Cisco, and Harvard Business School.
Small Change (Timber Sponsor)
Small Change is an impact investing platform focused on transformational real estate projects. The platform matches everyday investors with real estate developers, including many women and minority owned development firms, providing opportunities for everyone who cares about cities and wants to make change. It’s like Kickstarter for real estate – but with a return. Small Change provides a fluid and compliant technology platform that brings impact investment opportunities to everyone who cares about cities and wants to make change. Honors that CEO and founder, Eve Picker, is proud of include Small Change ranking as one of the 7 top Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms of 2020 by US News, nabbing Top Innovator in "Capital" category by HIVE, her tenure as a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency Program and recent participation in Village Capital's FinHealth US 2021, an accelerator program for early-stage startups. Most recently Connect CRE made Eve one of their National 2022 Women in Real Estate Awards winners.
SMMC (Timber Sponsor)
New York-based SMMC, which marks its 25th anniversary in 2019, is a boutique real estate marketing agency focused on residential and commercial real estate, placemaking and economic development. Its clients represent an industry who’s who and span the spectrum of real estate players from publicly-traded REITs (including the largest owners in NYC and Philadelphia), many of the country’s pre-eminent institutions, bi-coastal private equity funds, small, entrepreneurial owners, several of New York’s great real estate dynasties, and many major real estate brokerages. Recently it collaborated with one such family scion, Amy Rose of Rose Associates, on a ground-up 300-unit multifamily building, Hoyt & Horn, in Downtown Brooklyn. SMMC, which is proud to have designed and developed the WDC logo, is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) and actively pursues opportunities where the designation lends value to clients and their partners.
Wall Street Properties (Timber Sponsor)
Wall Street Properties serves the San Francisco Bay Area excelling in commercial and residential sales, rentals, development, syndication and property management. We capitalize on nearly 50 years of experience providing a deep local knowledge with a hands on approach maintaining a close relationship with our clients. Wall Street Properties is involved in all facets of real estate including industrial, retail, and office sales and leasing as well as commercial and multi family ground up development and renovation.
Seifel Consulting (Founder Sponsor and WDC Coordinator)
Seifel Consulting (Seifel) is a strategic economic advisory firm that helps clients achieve their project goals, meet complex urban growth challenges, and create financially viable and sustainable developments. Seifel’s expertise in guiding the successful development of a broad range of land uses has been cultivated through its work for both public and private sector clients on real estate projects ranging in size from $10 million to $6 billion, many of which have been led by women. Firm principal, Libby Seifel, and founder of the Women’s Development Collaborative is dedicated to advancing women’s leadership in business, real estate and technology.