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Endowment Awards $87,000 for NAHB Oral History Project
 The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, recently awarded a two-year, $87,000 grant to support an ongoing effort by NAHB and the endowment to preserve and tell the oral history of NAHB and the housing industry through videotaped interviews.
This grant, along with several previous grants awarded, puts the endowment’s commitment to the project at more than $200,000.
The latest grant will enable the NAHB Library and Archive Services to interview and videotape housing icons and industry leaders about housing in America. The interviews will be conducted during the next two years.
The project will also preserve these interviews in the most up-to-date format and make them available to members, future builders, historians and researchers.
“The National Housing Endowment Board of Trustees is proud to support this effort to tell the story of how housing became an integral part of the American way of life and preserve the voices of our industry’s leaders as they recall ― sometimes with vivid clarity — the many stages of our growth,” said Mark Tipton, the first vice chairman of the endowment and the 1991 NAHB president.
“I have been behind this project from the very beginning. It is truly in keeping with the endowment’s promise to honor the past as we look to the future,” he said.
For more information about the Oral History Project, e-mail Mehret Samuel at NAHB's Library and Archive Services, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8226.
Help Tsunami Survivors Rebuild Their Homes
NAHB and the National Housing Endowment have established the Home Builders Care/National Housing Endowment-Tsunami Shelter Fund to raise desperately needed funds to build permanent shelter for the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in South Asia last year. The fund currently has $354,000. Members contributed more than $7,000 to the fund last week.
NAHB, have designated Habitat for Humanity International and Shelter for Life International to be the recipients of the fund. Through NAHB donations, Habitat for Humanity will create a Disaster Response Technical Center in one of the affected countries it is serving. Shelter For Life will build a “Home Builders Care Village” of starter homes in Sri Lanka with NAHB funds.
Please Help
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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