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Ernest E. Baskette, Jr.
Mr. Baskette currently serves as Senior Vice President of Neighborhood Housing
Services of America’s Strategic Business Alliances Group. Mr. Baskette is responsible
for the development of increased business activity and product development.
Starting with the Architects Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), in New York City
in 1972, Mr. Baskette has worked in the community development field for 35 years. For
the last 27 years, he has held progressively responsible positions within NHSA. Before
joining NHSA in 1980, he served, for a three-year period, as executive director of the
Neighborhood Housing Services of Newark, New Jersey. His notable accomplishments
at NHSA have included: creation and direction of a statewide construction loan program
from 1989 through 1996 in New Jersey, which produced over $200 million in facilitated
housing development loans. His most recent responsibilities with NHSA have included:
head of loan operations, and business and loan product development.
Mr. Baskette’s work experience prior to joining the NeighborWorks ® network included:
extensive work in the sales of computer technology and services; teaching computer
operations; management and training of temporary office personnel; and teaching a
course in Urban Problems as an adjunct professor for Marymount Manhattan College in
New York City. Mr. Baskette holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Hunter College in
New York City.