Granting $500,000 in funding over two years, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation supported the creation of a new joint venture between The Cara Program and a large, nonprofit housing provider, Mercy Housing. Known as 180 Properties (formerly Cleanslate Property Services), the initiative has helped address the issue of poorly managed vacant properties by cleaning up, boarding up, inspecting and maintaining vacant properties. The Cara Program continues to recruit, train and employ individuals with significant obstacles to employment, including poor work history, education or recent incarceration. The 180 Properties team provided more than 11,000 services to homes in foreclosure in 2010.  (Courtesy of JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report)