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2010 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 2010 winners of the HELP ― Homebuilding Education Leadership Program initiative — at the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas during ceremonies on Thursday, Jan. 21.
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.
2009 HELP grants were awarded to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo.; North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D.; Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.; and a joint grant was awarded to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas
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.
“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, a 2008 HELP Grant recipient. The school used the grant to establish an NAHB student chapter and advisory board and incorporate Residential Construction Academy classes into its curriculum.
For more information on the HELP grant, visit www.nationalhousingendowment.org.
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