The Phoenix Family Housing Corporation

Clifton R. Cohn Community Leader Awards


2007 Honorary Chair Clifton R. Cohn

Clifton R. Cohn, one of the many unsung heroes of Phoenix Family Housing. Phoenix Family Housing Corporation is honored to have Clifton R. Cohn as our 2007 Honorary Chair and to dedicate this year's event to him and to the community he has created.

Our world has many unsung heroes. People who do the right thing. They don't do it for the promise of publicity or for money, but because they know that it needs to be done and because it feels right to them. Clifton R. Cohn is one of those people.

Mr. Cohn didn't set out to change the standard for affordable housing communities or to create an organization that would become a national model. But that is exactly what his passion accomplished.

Phoenix Family is proud to announce the inaugural Clifton R. Cohn Community Leader Awards.

Clifton R. Cohn Distinguished Community Leader Award
Scott Berghaus, Bank of America

Scott Berghaus is the 2007 recipient of the Clifton R. Cohn Distinguished Community Leader AwardScott Berghaus is the 2007 recipient of the first annual Clifton R. Cohn Distinguished Community Leader Award. The award recognizes exemplary service and community involvement by our community leaders to improve the well-being of residents living in low-to-moderate income housing.

Mr. Berghaus is dedicated professionally and personally to improving our community. As a senior vice president with Bank of America, Mr. Berghaus works in conjunction with internal and external partners to enhance growth initiatives needed to meet the bank's community lending, investment and service goals, especially for low-and-moderate-income customers and neighborhoods.

Mr. Berghaus also currently serves on several nonprofit boards of directors, including the Local Advisory Board of Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), as well as, on the national Rural Advisory Board of Rural LISC. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Kansas City Downtown Council and their Executive Board and the Gillis Center for Children.

Mr. Berghaus is a graduate of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He is married to Jan Evans Berghaus and is the father of Amy, Sarah and Jill.