John Lehner

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John Lehner is president of NFR Corporation, a multifaceted organization that provides training, group facilitation and consulting services to not-for-profit and for-profit corporations.

Lehner has been both a real estate and mortgage broker. He has more than 30 years of experience in: community and neighborhood planning and redevelopment; housing and commercial development, lending and finance; collaborations and joint venture design and management; grant research, preparation, and review; community and resident engagement; and organizational design and management.

He is a consultant and instructor for the NeighborWorks Training Institute, and has provided services for: NeighborWorks America, Department of Justice, Regional Neighborhood Network, Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, Freddie Mac, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Prosperity Indiana (a statewide CDC trade collaborative), and a variety of not-for-profit organizations and micro-business enterprises nationwide.

Lehner is a former city planner and neighborhood planning manager with the cities of Cleveland and Hamilton, Ohio; the past executive director of the Fort Wayne Neighborhood Housing Partnership in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and the current Community Development Manager for Nevada HAND in Las Vegas, Nevada.