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Patricia Rouse
Co-Founder, Vice President and Secretary
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
410.964.1230
Patricia Rouse co-founded The Enterprise Foundation (now Enterprise Community
Partners) with her late husband, James Rouse, in 1982. She serves as vice president and secretary of the organization. She also serves as secretary of Enterprise Community Investment.
Rouse is a member of the Founders Committee of World Times, Inc., publisher of The WorldPaper; the board of directors of Jubilee Housing of Washington, D.C.; and the board of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. Rouse is a former member of the board of directors of the Health and Welfare Council of Maryland (serving as vice president from 1981-1983) and a former board member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
In 1991, President Bush appointed Rouse to serve on the board of directors of the Commission on National and Community Service. She also served on the National Civilian Community Corps
Advisory Board from 1994 to 1997; as a commissioner of the Norfolk Redevelopment and Hous¬ing
Authority from 1969 to 1975; and served on the board of directors of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, the Columbia Forum and the Columbia Foundation in
Columbia, Md.
Rouse graduated magna cum laude from Sweet Briar College in 1948 after spending her junior year at St. Andrews University in Scotland. She has done graduate work in urban studies at Old Dominion University and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the university in 1997.
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