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Endowment to Fund Minority Workforce Outreach
 The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, has awarded a $10,000 grant to fund an outreach program to establish and strengthen NAHB Student Chapters at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and universities and colleges with traditionally large Hispanic populations.
The program will target minority students in support of the Home Builders Institute’s (HBI) charge of providing NAHB members with a talented and diverse workforce. A challenge to the industry at large, as well as for the student chapters program, is to overcome the lack of minority participation at the university and community college level.
Through the program, student leaders will be targeted and encouraged to start student chapters at their schools. HBI will provide them with information on scholarship and awards programs and encourage representatives from local home builders associations and member companies to visit their schools.
Information on best practices of successful student chapters will be made available to the new chapters. The student chapters will also be encouraged to attend the International Builders’ Show and participate in the student competitions that are held there.
This outreach to minority campuses nationwide will help NAHB diversify the housing industry workforce as well as its membership by starting with the industry’s future leaders — at the NAHB Student Chapter level.
For more information on the outreach program, e-mail Page Browning, director of academic services at HBI, the workforce development arm of NAHB, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8918.
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 has 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.
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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