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2009 HELP Grants to Be Announced at Builders’ Show
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East Carolina University faculty and students were awarded a pilot HELP grant at the 2007 International Builders' Show. |
 The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, will announce the 2009 winners of the HELP ― Homebuilding Education Leadership Program initiative — at the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas during ceremonies on Thursday, Jan. 22.
Each year, the endowment awards $100,000 grants to four colleges and universities to help them create, expand and enhance existing residential construction management programs — and to enable them to provide programs that respond to the current state of the home building industry and anticipate and prepare for its future.
2008 HELP grants were awarded to California Polytechnic University — San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Ala.; John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.; and Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
“In the 28 years I have been involved in the construction industry and 18 years in construction education, my experience with the endowment is one-of-a-kind — one that fully supports the housing industry,” said Mike DeMattei, instructor at John A. Logan College. The school used the grant to establish an NAHB student chapter and advisory board and incorporate Residential Construction Academy classes into its curriculum.
First awarded at the 2007 IBS, HELP grants were created to bolster college and university residential construction management programs around the country and to triple the number of college graduates entering the home building industry over the next decade.
For more information on the HELP grant, call the endowment at 800-368-5242 x8483 or visit www.nationalhousingendowment.org.
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