Sara Jean Lindholm

Sara Jean Lindholm serves on the Board of Directors for The Community Builders, Inc., and most recently served as director of acquisitions and special projects for the Midwest Region starting in 2010. She joined TCB in 2004 as director of development for the Midwest, holding over-all responsibility for the development of TCB’s portfolio of real estate projects throughout the region; supervising seven locally based development project managers. She has 35 years of affordable housing development experience across diverse markets, having developed Arkansas, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and in rural, suburban and urban areas throughout Illinois. Lindholm began her development career with Shorebank Corporation in Chicago, managing the growth of its real estate development subsidiary, City Lands, from a fledging operation to a routinely profitable development entity. Under her direction, City Lands produced more than $100 million of affordable rental and homeownership housing, as well as commercial/retail development. As an independent consultant, she has worked with mixed income, mixed-finance HOPE VI developments since 1996, arranging financing, providing project management, and developing $52 million of multi-phased projects in Little Rock, Ark., and Elizabeth, N.J. Lindholm has extensive experience in the development of affordable assisted living facilities through her work with NCB Development Corporation, an affiliate of the National Cooperative Bank in Washington, D.C. Lindholm received her B.A. from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. She has served on numerous appointed boards and commissions, including the Resolution Trust Corporation and FDIC’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board, the National Board of Preservation Action, the State of Illinois Governor’s Advisory Task Force and the President’s Advisory Council of Oberlin College. She also served for three years as a board appointee to the Investment Review Committee of the National Equity Fund, Inc., the nation’s largest not-for-profit syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credits.