 We were honored to present the Robert L. Mitchell Founders Award to Mr. Edward St. John, the Founder and Chairman of St. John Properties, in recognition for his lifetime of leadership and commitment to community and charitable service. Over 300 Guests and 87 Sponsors joined us! Read more...
 Builder Mart is the largest, one-day building industry trade show in Maryland. Don't miss this year's event - October 25, 2023 from 10 am - 5 pm at the Howard County Fairgrounds, located just off I-70. Visit www.buildermart.org  The American Red Cross will be at MBIA headquarters for our annual Blood Drive on Halloween Day. Stave a Vampire this Halloween! One hour of your time changes everything for patients, families, and communities. Safe a Life. Make an appointment.
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 New Units of Supportive Housing for Disabled in Howard County in the Works Rutter Project Management leads project with generous in-kind donations from Hatfield Equipment, JNM Engineering, LLC & Heath Contractors + others In the 4th quarter of 2022, initial work began on the construction of a new accessible sidewalk and front entrance at a single-family dwelling that will become a new home for four (4) disabled adults once completed. The home is owned by the ARC of Maryland and operated by the ARC of Howard County who are excited to expand their housing program capacity. The waiting list for supportive housing is long. The ARC's mission is to achieve full community life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities — one person at a time. We are proud to help their team create a new safe, accessible and functional home for residents to enjoy for years to come. Thus far, six MBIA companies have lined up to provide in-kind construction assistance - amazing! After design and permits were on hand, the start of construction was pushed back to 2023 in order to relocate utility lines and upgrade utility services to the 1969 home in Ellicott City. We are happy to report that BGE completed their portion of the work in March. We look forward to the completion of construction and the home's grand opening soon!  Work Begins at Domestic Violence Safe House in Prince George's County The Columbia Building Co. (formerly BHBC) leads project with assistance from Gutschick Little & Weber PA, Fence and Deck Connection and others. Home Builders Care is set to make a number of needed improvements at one of our regions primary domestic violence shelters. Located in Prince George's County, the 43-bed Safe Passage Shelter provided a total of 13,359 bed nights to women and children in crisis last year. The shelter is managed by Community Crisis Services. Project work will first focus on improving drainage around the property as recent flooding has caused damage to key play areas for the children. In conjunction with that work, decking and gathering areas are being redesigned to help create a safer and better connected home for all residents and staff. Enhancing Safety and Accessibility with a Baltimore County Nonprofit Chris and her roommates at a community living group home in Middle River are getting a new bathroom! The renovation project will expand and enhance this bathroom to better fit the needs of the four women with disabilities who live there - and their caregivers. The project will also affect the adjacent laundry room and improve the home's accessibility and functionality. We are proud to lend our assistance to Unified Community Connections and help them in their important work to support people with disabilities in achieving independence, productivity and the quality of life they seek.  HBCF Turn Key Grants Make Projects Happen
Housing Unlimited, Inc. (HUI) turns to Home Builders Care for Assistance With over 80 homes serving more than 230 very low-income people, HUI provides affordable, independent housing for adults in mental health recovery in Montgomery County. The nonprofit has been a partner of HBCF for several years and we are proud to have helped them grow their program since 2000 - when they had only 10 homes and housed 45 individuals! Our latest project with HUI involves the conversion of an unused carport at one of their homes into a storage area to securely hold donated furniture and fixtures for their housing program. Providing Accessibility Modifications at the House that Builders Built A Turn Key Grant was provided to Habitat for Humanity Susquehanna for their new home in Havre De Grace under construction. A number of MBIA members in Harford County have also stepped up to help. The home is being built for a single parent family with two children, one of whom is disabled. Our assistance moves the project to completion. Supporting Critical Repair Programs for Low-Income Homeowners in Maryland While HBCF does not help individual homeowners with needed repairs, we do lend some help to nonprofits that assist low-income disabled and elderly homeowners in need of help. Since 2000, Home Builders Care Foundation has lent its expertise and resources to support multiple repair programs throughout Maryland. The local programs we support target rebuilding projects for low-income seniors/disabled homeowners to keep them safely housed. In 2023, small project grants were provided to a total of fourteen (14) local organizations that provided critical repair programs in our territory. Learn more our TurnKey Project Grant Program Feb 3, 2023 ARTICLE from the FREDERICK NEWS POST by Ryan Marshall rmarshall@newspost.com ---- The parking lot at the Frederick Rescue Mission had been a problem since Arnold Farlow arrived in 2005. The old dirt and gravel lot created a “constant tug of war” to keep it in a decent condition, said Farlow, the Rescue Mission’s executive director. It was muddy in the winter and dusty in the summer, and the Mission’s volunteers and guests would track the mud and dirt inside, he said. The water was running down the Mission’s sloping parking lot and collecting on nearby properties, said Danielle Adams, executive officer of the Frederick County Building Industry Association, who helped coordinate the project. The ruts and uneven ground that formed also created hazardous conditions and accessibility problems for people seeking the Mission’s services, she said. With more than 72,000 meals served and 88,000 requests for groceries, and through helping 70 men who sought help with addiction in 2022, the Mission’s offices on South Street are a busy place. Several times, Farlow looked into having the lot paved, but said he was told that without expensive stormwater management work, the water would run off the pavement and flood neighboring properties.
Then he got a call from Adams looking for a project the Building Industry Association could help with. Planners and engineers worked out a plan to draw the water back to the right rear corner of the Mission’s property. The nearby Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs granted an easement for a drainage pipe across its parking lot, and offered “a thousand-percent cooperation,” Adams said. The water flows to the rear of the Mission property, through a drain and filtration system, across the Religious Coalition property to DeGrange Street, where it enters the city’s system and flows to Carroll Creek, Farlow said. After beginning in October and experiencing some supply chain problems in getting materials, the project finished in January, Adams said. The city’s planning and permitting departments expedited the work as much as possible, Adams said. The project was a collaboration between local businesses, who donated services or products for free or at reduced prices. The businesses include:
The Rescue Mission provides food, shelter, and faith to the community’s most vulnerable residents, elements essential to a thriving community, Jeremy Holder, vice president of Ausherman Properties and Trustee of the Ausherman Family Foundation, wrote in a statement. “The Ausherman Family, like so many of our Frederick businesses, believes ‘Building a Community’ means so much more than growth and development,” Holder wrote, “so when we learned of the lead role the FCBIA had taken and of the opportunity to join so many others in the building industry who were contributing their time, money, and resources, we knew we should step up to help make this project a reality.” The Home Builders Care Foundation of Maryland, an industry organization based in Fulton that uses its members’ skills and resources to help worthwhile projects, also contributed through an agreement with the Building Industry Association. “Nonprofits like FRM who provide a safety net of housing and resources to vulnerable individuals and families face many challenges with limited resources. These are the organizations we target for assistance,” Patti Kane, the group’s director, wrote in an email. “By helping out with this complex project, we not only helped make the Mission’s hard-working facility more safe and functional, but we also gave the Mission thousands of dollars in the construction costs, and allowed Mission leadership staff to focus their valuable resources on essential program services that impact thousands of lives.” The parking lot project was the culmination of so much that the Mission sought to do to advance its mission of helping people who are homeless, hungry, or facing addiction, Farlow said. Getting rid of the “big gorilla that we never could find a solution for” opens up possibilities for other projects in the future, he said.  The podcast is live! Check out Episode 4 of the 2023 season of the PROFiles Podcast sponsored by LL Flooring
Hosted by industry veteran Tom Kraeutler (Money Pit), this latest episode features our own Project Committee Chair Dave Lunden Dave talks with Tom about his position as a Timberlake Homes BT division president and Home Builders Care Foundation, Inc. board member. Through these positions, Dave has helped provide other nonprofits with cost-effective shelter construction solutions so they can focus efforts on helping the communities they serve. Maryland Building Industry Association #buildersgivingback #nonprofits #homebuilderscare  Tomorrow we are called upon to give back to others in need.
The work of the Home Builders Care Foundation (HBCF), the official charity of MBIA, focuses on the fundamental human need of SHELTER. HBCF builds and renovates shelter, providing vital construction services to many front-line nonprofits caring for the homeless, the disabled, victims of domestic violence, the infirm, and others in need. These vulnerable individuals and families need safe homes and places to rest, recuperate and heal. The caregivers who work in these facilities every day need our support too. Your donation to the Home Builders Care helps make a difference. Please give if you can. Thank you and take good care. Join the Movement! Make a contribution this Giving Tuesday. |
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