residential development. He also served for five years as Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development for the District of Columbia where he managed an annual operating and capital budget of over $120 million and increased the District’s annual financing of affordable housing units from less than 500 units to over 2,500 units annually. Jamie A. Smarr, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Program Jamie Smarr is responsible for two essential Foundation programs. Under his leadership, The NHPF Affiliate Program brings managerial strength in finance, asset management, resident services, and fund raising to local nonprofits and community-based organizations seeking to undertake development projects. He also provides leadership to the NHPF Acquisitions program, which actively seeks to acquire properties and partnership interests in portfolios of affordable housing, including Section 8, FHA insured, Mark to Market, and expiring LIHTC transactions. His experience includes Executive Director of the New York City Educational Construction Fund, which is engaged in public-private real estate development partnerships for the New York City school system. Over 12 years of service, Mr. Smarr also was a senior aide to five New York City Schools Chancellors, where he was responsible for capital planning, operations, after school programming and public/charter school development. He had previously served as Director of Tax and Zoning Incentives for New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development Department, where more than 1,500 units of low-income housing were created under his leadership via public-private development partnerships. His education includes a Masters in Education from Columbia University Teachers College, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and a BA in Political Science from Duke University. He also counts in his experience continued studies in finance and taxation at NYU. He was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Public Policy and International Affairs for Graduate Study by Princeton University. Thomas G. Vaccaro, Senior Vice President/Corporate Secretary The application of his skills and experience at NHPF has been the culmination of a career focused on homelessness and affordable housing which began in 1989. At NHPF Mr. Vaccaro is responsible for creating and growing the robust 4-member External Affairs team which encompasses thought leadership, PR/marketing, creation/maintenance of all organization collateral materials and websites, data analysis, fundraising, and as Corporate Secretary he oversees all paralegal activities for the corporate structure, which includes over 200 subsidiaries. In addition, Mr. Vaccaro is also credited with conceiving and producing NHPF’s widely respected bi-partisan Annual Symposium & Dinner which began in 2017 and averages over 90 corporate sponsors and 400 in attendance. The event has earned the Hanley Wood Brand Builder Platinum Award for Best B2B Custom Event as well as a Telly Award for its video, “Delivering on Our Commitment.” Earlier in his career, Mr. Vaccaro worked for the Salvation Army’s Western Division. There, he skillfully directed the organization’s housing programs, which included emergency shelters, transitional housing programs, off-site scattered single-family housing, and a psychiatric housing program for the homeless. Mr. Vaccaro received HUD’s National Blue Ribbon Best Practice award for co-creating and chairing the Omaha Area Continuum of Care For The Homeless and he was recognized by the United Way of the Midlands with its Leota G. Norton Community Service Award for his efforts in working with the homeless. After earning a B.A. from St. Louis University in Psychology with an emphasis on homelessness and domestic violence, Mr. Vaccaro went on to Catholic Theological Union for Master Studies of Divinity. Joseph P. Wiedorfer, Senior Vice President, Assistant Corporate Secretary is a member of the Senior Management Team, primarily responsible for the acquisition, finance and development of multifamily housing properties regulated under various Federal and State affordable housing programs. He is well versed in transactions including Section 8, FHA insured, Mark to Market, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). This work includes helping to build a national apartment portfolio by acquiring 33 properties, containing over 6,400 apartment units in 12 states, at an aggregate cost of $150 million. His earlier career included 10 years of service at The National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, the congressionally chartered organization responsible for creating NHPF. Over the course of his career, Mr. Wiedorfer has acquired 26 properties, completed $175 million of tax-exempt bond financings for 18 properties, sold 17 properties, closed a pass-through trust that provided unsecured secondary financing to 31 HUD rent-assisted properties, and has coordinated over $50 million of rehabilitation work. Included in
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