Opens Doors Foundation - Opens Doors Foundation

The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic have disproportionately affected our Opens Doors families. We need your help to meet the increase in demand for our support. To learn about what the MBA is doing to support its members, please visit the MBA Coronavirus Resources page.

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The MBA Opens Doors Foundation is dedicated to providing the comforts of home to families in crisis. Through our home grant program, we provide mortgage and rental payment assistance grants to parents and guardians caring for a critically ill or injured child, allowing them to take unpaid leave from work and spend precious time together without jeopardizing their cherished homes.

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The MBA Opens Doors Foundation was founded in 2011 by former MBA President and CEO Dave Stevens, his wife Mary Stevens, and Dan Arrigoni, former president of U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, on the premise that families with critically ill or injured children should not also have to worry about whether their child will have a home to return to after treatment. Since 2012, the MBA Opens Doors Foundation has provided mortgage and rental payment assistance grants to more than 6,200 families from across the country. Because the Mortgage Bankers Association pays 100% of the Foundation's operational and administrative expenses, 100% of donations go directly to a family in need.

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"Thank you so much! It means the world to me that you have been able to help me pay one month's mortgage while we are going through this difficult time in our lives. God most certainly will bestow his blessings to all of you! Love, hugs and many blessings sent you're guys' way!"

"We would just like to thank you for the grant. It has helped us out a great deal. It made the month of May a great month. The work you all do does more than you know, and for that we are grateful."