August 2025 | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant to Good River Partners Focused on Advancing Affordable Housing Solutions
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant to Good River Partners Focused on Advancing Affordable Housing Solutions
[Los Angeles, CA] — Good River Partners, a mission-driven organization committed to ending the foster care-to-homelessness pipeline, has been awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to research innovative financing models that can accelerate the development and acquisition of affordable housing.
The funding will support Good River Partners’ research into public and private loan guarantee programs. Such programs, wherein a guarantor backs a loan, have proven successful in driving private investment into small businesses, infrastructure, health care facilities and in some instances housing.
“We know that loan guarantees have the power to de-risk investments and drive down the overall cost of debt financing,” said Daniel Heimpel, Good River Partners’ Managing Director. “This is a powerful tool that we believe can improve the housing crisis afflicting states across the Country.”
The Grant will allow Good River to collate examples of loan guarantees at work in various contexts and explore those models’ applicability in housing development and preservation.”
“We are committed to supporting bold solutions to housing affordability and we believe loan guarantees hold great promise,” said Amaya Bravo-France, who works within CZI’s Housing Affordability Portfolio. “We are proud to support Good River in researching and telling the story of this promising tool.”
About the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) leverages technology, community-driven solutions, and collaboration to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges, including housing affordability, education, and curing disease.
About Good River Partners
Good River Partners is a mission-driven organization working nationally to end the foster care to-homelessness pipeline. The organization takes a comprehensive approach focusing on real estate, coalition building, applied research, and policy change to ensure youth are provided with high quality housing.
Media Contact:
Kevin Clark
Senior Director Good River Partners
818-389-0731
kclark@goodriverpartners.com