Endowment Awards Training, Land Use Programs Funds

The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, has awarded a total of $20,000 in matching funds to six local home builders associations for their labor shortage/worker training and land use programs.

The grants, approved by the endowment’s board of trustees during NAHB's spring board of directors meeting in Washington, D.C. last month, are part of the Challenge/Build/Grow initiative that provides up to $5,000 in matching challenge grant funds for programs and projects in the association's highest priority areas of land use and labor shortage/worker training.

The grant recipients include:

• White County Home Builders Association (Ark.) — Career Development and Training Program
• Collier Building Industry Association (Fla.) — Construction Academies of Collier County Florida
• Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky — African American Construction Trades Training Program
• Home Builders Association of Maryland — Baltimore Building Trades Pre-Apprenticeship Program
• Umpqua Valley Home Builders Association (Ore.) — Building Trades Program
• Home Builders Association of Kitsap County (Wash.) — Low Impact Development Standards Implementation Program

A record 18 local and state associations submitted applications this year; grant applications were reviewed by the William Carr Scholarship Committee — a part of the Executive Officers Council. The committee’s recommendations were then endorsed by the endowment’s board of trustees. 

Because of the popularity of the Challenge/Build/Grow Initiative, the endowment's board also voted to fund another grant cycle in the fall in which an additional $20,000 in grants will be awarded. 

Applications will be available on-line at the Endowment Web site, www.nationalhousingendowment.com, and will be due on Oct. 1.

Help Tsunami Survivors Rebuild Their Homes

In response to what will be an overwhelming need for permanent shelter following the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in South Asia last year, NAHB and the National Housing Endowment have established the Home Builders Care/National Housing Endowment-Tsunami Shelter Fund to raise desperately needed funds.

With an initial donation of $250,000, designated by the NAHB Board of Directors at the International Builders’ Show, the fund is being directed to rebuilding efforts that provide temporary and permanent shelter for survivors. NAHB, have designated Habitat for Humanity International and Shelter for Life International to be the recipients of the fund. Through NAHB donations, a Disaster Response Technical Center will be created in one of the affected countries Habitat is serving. Shelter For Life will build a “Home Builders Care Village” of starter homes in Sri Lanka with NAHB funds.

Please help by making a tax deductible donation to the Home Builders Care/National Housing Endowment-Tsunami Shelter Fund. Money raised by the National Housing Endowment will be granted to one or more U.S. charitable relief organizations working to help tsunami survivors obtain temporary and permanent shelter.

Please direct your donation check to:

National Housing Endowment
1201 15th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20005

Checks should be made payable to the National Housing Endowment and, in the memo section, please note the "Tsunami Shelter Fund."

The NAHB Senior Officers have selected Past President Bob Mitchell to oversee and guide this fundraising effort.

For more information, contact Troy Patterson at the National Housing Endowment at 800-368-5242 x8483 or Kym Kilbourne in NAHB Public Affairs, x8447.

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