About Columbia Non-Profit Housing

Vancouver Housing Authority established Columbia Non-Profit Housing as a nonprofit entity in 1981. With the support of the housing authority, CNPH is managed by an independent six-member board of directors. CNPH serves as the sponsoring organization for several affordable housing projects developed in Clark County, Wash. Over the decades, CNPH has developed 13 properties comprising more than 400 apartments that provide low-income residents with a comfortable and stable place to call home.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to create stable communities by providing affordable, decent and safe housing where low-income people including seniors, persons with disabilities and families have opportunities to grow and thrive.

Our Board of Directors

Susan DeRenzo, Chair

Susan DeRenzo joined the board in the fall of 2010 and became board chair in 2015. Several new buildings have been added to the community, and she is proud to be a part of bringing additional low-income housing options to the area. In her day job, Susan works for a local bank as a certified financial planner. She believes having stable housing is a critical part of someone’s financial wellbeing. In her free time, Susan enjoys hiking, skiing, camping and music. She loves being able to take advantage of the many outdoor opportunities the Pacific Northwest has to offer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and minored in economics at the University of Sioux Falls in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Jim David, Vice Chair

Jim David is an attorney in private practice in Vancouver. He retired in 2014 from the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office where he worked to create a special program for prosecutions of offenses against senior citizens. Jim serves on the boards of several nonprofits that provide services to seniors and people who are low-income or otherwise in need. In his spare time, Jim serves on the board of directors for the Vancouver Lake Sailing Club.

Lisa Thompson, Secretary/Treasurer

Lisa Thompson joined Columbia Non-Profit Housing in April 2018 and is currently the secretary/treasurer. Lisa has over 25 years of experience in residential home lending, including helping first-time homebuyers as well as clients who have purchased numerous homes. She enjoys educating people and guiding them through all aspects of homeownership. In her free time, Lisa enjoys traveling and spending time with family. She attended Clark College and had advanced mortgage training through Mortgage Bankers Association and Xinnix Edge.

Samantha Waldbauer, Director

Samantha Waldbauer joined the board in 2020. She has over 20 years of experience working with the aging and disabled population as they access programs to keep their independence in the community in the setting of their choice. Her experience is highlighted by community-based programs that address the social determinants of health, which impact a person’s ability to successfully gain and maintain housing. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and has experience managing privately owned rental properties. In her free time, she enjoys music, hiking, boating and spending time with family.

Sharif Burdzik, Director

Sharif Burdzik is the small business lending officer at Columbia Credit Union. Previously, he was a commercial lender at Lewis & Clark Bank and, before that, a VP at Riverview Community Bank for almost ten years. After working for banks with nationwide footprints, he found his passion for local community banking and serving small businesses in the early 2000s after moving to the Pacific Northwest from his home state of Kansas. Sharif has extensive board experience and currently serves on the WSU Diversity Advisory Board and is a director for Partners in Careers, Clark College Foundation, the Watershed Alliance, the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce and Fourth Plain Forward. An active member of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Sharif has also served on several city committees including the annual evaluation committees for the city’s CDBG, HOME and Affordable Housing Fund grant programs. A graduate of the University of Kansas and Pacific Coast Banking School, Sharif enjoys skiing, hiking, reading and especially spending time with his son Alex, a recent graduate of Oregon State University.

Matthew Lennick, Director

Matthew Lennick joined the board in June of 2024. Lennick is a Clinical Pharmacy Manager at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, where he has been practicing pharmacy for nearly 20 years since graduating from the University of Washington. He has a passion for helping people thrive, which led him to health care initially and inspired him to give back to the community. Lennick’s volunteer journey began in college with the United Way. Since 2017, he’s volunteered for Share, an organization offering food and shelter for people in Vancouver, Wash. He is currently Share’s board president.

Lennick’s other community service work includes organizing and leading group service projects for Kaiser Permanente’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. He has volunteered for the “I Have A Dream” Foundation (now “Greater Than”), an organization that provides long-term support to youth living in under-resourced communities. As a volunteer for Leadership Clark County, Lennick helped develop and implement a diversity, equity and inclusion youth advisory board for the Police Activities League of Vancouver. Lennick has also provided tours of Kaiser Permanente’s automated pharmacy refill center to underserved youth who live in the Northwest with the goal of sparking interest in the health care profession.

Columbia Non-Profit Housing Staff

Victor Caesar, Executive Director

Victor Caesar was appointed as Executive Director of Columbia Non-Profit Housing in January 2023. Victor has over a decade of experience coordinating complex real estate development projects that use a mix of public and private financing. This experience includes coordinating projects using HUD capital and operating funds, HOME, CDBG, LIHTC, historic tax credits, Housing Trust Fund and tax increment financing. In his free time Victor enjoys hiking, paddle boarding, skiing and the many other perks of living in the Pacific Northwest. He holds a Bachelor of Science in geography from Texas State University – San Marcos, a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Portland State University and a Rental Housing Development Finance Professional Certificate from the National Development Council.

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