Community Builders - Home Builders Care Foundation

Community
Builders
Quarterly review of the Home Builders Care Foundation
Giving Back to Our Community
Winter 2015
On March 25, 2015
Home Builders
Care Foundation
will be at booth 421
See you there!
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Inside this issue:
Community
Service Awards
1
Boys Hope Not-So 1
Extreme
Makeover
Ribbon Cutting at 2
DC Homeless
Center & Clinic
MBIA Remodelers 2
to Host Casino
Night April 16
A 17-kitchen ren- 2
ovation at
MCCH’s Seneca
Two Townhomes 3
to be updated for
Housing UnlimCharles County
Project
Celebrated
3
Bull & Oyster
4
Roast Set for May
14 at Ruppert
Home Builders Care Presents Community Service Awards
HBCF recently presented
its 2014 Community Service
Awards at MBIA’s Installation
Dinner Meeting.
This year’s Community
Builder Award was presented to Mark Bennett, VicePresident of Development for
Greenebaum Enterprises.
Mark has over 25 years of
experience and has been
active in the Association for
well over 20 years having
always stepped up to assist,
and not always for the easy
volunteer jobs. Most recently, he stepped up to assist
for possibly
one of the
biggest tasks
in the Association’s foundation history to lead the
completion of
the Maryland Center for
Housing in Maple Lawn.
Over the past two years,
Mark has served as CoPresident of the Building
Industries Foundation. In
that capacity, Mark has donated countless hours to
assist with the construction
of the new building, which is
owned by the Foundation
and is the new MBIA headquarters. It could not have
been done without his help.
From the inception of the
project he has played an
integral part - from getting
the land donated by Greenebaum to serving as an important resource throughout
the process to actually taking over the full day-to-day
project management of the
building. On June 16, 2015,
the grand opening celebration of the building took
place largely thanks to his
leadership.
The Tom Sawyer Award
was presented to Efficient
Home LLC for their leadership on the substantial renovation project at the Friendship Place Welcome Center
and Clinic in Washington DC.
The Welcome Center is a
place where the homeless
can escape from the streets.
More about the extensive
project can be found in our
Ribbon Cutting story page 2.
The Directors Award,
was presented to Jack Orrick of Linowes and Blocher
LLP, a business and real estate law firm in Bethesda
where he is a Partner and
Chair of the firm’s Business
(Continued on page 3)
Generous Businesses Join Forces with BHGH Baltimore
MBIA members and other
corporate volunteers joined
forces with Boys Hope Girls
Hope Baltimore (BHGH Baltimore) last month for a NotSo-Extreme-Makeover at the
Boys Hope House. Volunteers
and vendors from across Maryland donated their time,
skills and supplies to overhaul the Boys Hope
House. Home Builders Care
was proud to support the
project.
The following current
MBIA member companies
generously donated labor
and materials for the makeover: Jim Polzin, Cabinet
Discounters * Steve
Mannion, Design House
Kitchen & Appliances *
Pooja Gupta, Ferguson Enterprises * Jay Hergenroeder, Gray and Son * Barry
Martin, The Home Depot
Home Services * Jeanine
Hunt, Progressive Waste *
Chris Rachuba, The
Rachuba Group * Dan
Murtaugh, Sandy
Spring Bank * Ken
Bullough, Stonemark
Flooring.
Page 2
Community Builders
Ribbon Cutting at DC’s Homeless Drop-In Center & Clinic
Home Builders Care
rebuilds in the
District as
On Thursday,
December 11,
2014, Friendship Place held
its annual Holiday Open
House. This
year, the
event doubled
as a ribbon
cutting ceremony for the
newly renovated Friendship
Place Welcome Center.
The renovation would
not have been possible without the work of Home Builders Care Foundation’s
HomeAid Washington DC
chapter, Case Design, Efficient Home LLC and the
Masco Corporation Foundation.
Just north of Tenley-
town, the Welcome Center
property was originally built
as a single family home in
1928 and in dire need of
renovation inside and out.
At a total project value estimated at over
$250,000, the work done
included: window replacements, waterproofing, new
siding, the complete replacement of the outdated
boiler system with new high
-efficiency mini-splits, a
reconfiguration of the first
floor to open up the space
and better accommodate a
safe flow of traffic, the replacement of all flooring,
including subfloor work and
the renovation of the kitchen and two bathrooms, plus
more.
The Welcome Center
offers case management,
medical and psychiatric
care, and is a place where
the homeless can escape
from the streets. While no
overnight shelter is provided
at the Welcome Center, it is
a primary point of outreach
for numerous homeless clients. In 2014, the Center
provided over 700 primary
care consultations and more
than 300 psychiatric consultations.
Home Builders Care/
HomeAidDC is thankful to
MBIA member Efficient
Home LLC for stepping up to
serve as builder captain.
Another MBIA member
Charles A. Klein & Sons
helped with the HVAC and
Masco provided cabinets.
MBIA Remodelers Council Hosts Casino Night April 16
Ante Up and join in the fun at MBIA's 1st Annual Casino Night, hosted by MBIA's
Remodelers Council. Try your luck at Black Jack, Roulette, Craps, Texas Hold 'em
or give the Big Wheel a spin!
$75 MBIA members
$85 non-members
Thursday, April 16, 2015
6 pm—10 pm
Register online at
www.marylandbuilders.org
Turf Valley Resort
Proceeds to benefit Home Builders Care Foundation.
Kitchen Renovation at Seneca Heights Apartments
Located in Gaithersburg,
the Seneca Heights Apartment Complex serves as
permanent housing for 40
formerly homeless single
adults and 17 families. A
former EconoLodge, the
facility was renovated to
provide single-room occupancy housing thanks to a
Montgomery County publicprivate partnership effort,
led by the Coalition for the
Homeless in 2004.
After 10 years of heavy
use, the kitchens of the 17
family units are to be renovated. A significant portion
of the project funding has
been secured from a Federal
Community
Development
Block Grant
(CDBG), but
in order to
move the
project forward other
assistance is
needed.
Home Builders
Care has
stepped up to provide assistance and will be supplying
all appliances.
Giving Back to Our Community
Page 3
Charles County Group Homes for the Disabled Renovated & Celebrated
In December, Spring Dell
Center and HBCF celebrated
the completion of exterior
makeovers at two Waldorf
area group homes. The construction value was $50,000.
For over 15 years the
two organizations have had
the opportunity to build a
relationship through the
development of a handful of
group home renovation projects, but according to
Spring Dell Center staff
nothing of this magnitude.
Seventy five percent of
residents in one renovated
house are in wheelchairs
and found it difficult to maneuver into the homes with
ease. Others found that
their homes needed costly
updates. Each house received a number of extensive exterior improvements
spanning over several
months.
Wise Choice Construction, LLC and Alside/
Revere Building Products
provided in-kind donations
of building materials with
support from MBIA’s
Charles County Chapter.
After completion of
the home, a ribbon cutting
showcased the renovation
projects. The event included words from HBCF President Liza Bowles of Newport
Partners; MBIA’s Charles
County Chapter Chairperson
Doug Meeker of Elm Street
Development; and
MBIA’s Vice President of
Government Affairs Marcus
Jackson, as well as Spring
Dell Center’s Executive Director Donna Retzlaff. Also
in attendance were commu-
nity members, Spring Dell
Center staff and those most
affected by the upgrades,
the homes residents.
Currently Spring Dell
Center, an agency dedicated to assisting individuals
with disabilities in achieving
their highest level of independence, provides residential programs supporting 51
individuals in 20 homes
throughout the Waldorf and
La Plata areas.
Two Housing Unlimited Townhomes to Receive Upgrades
“We‘re very proud of the
relationship, meeting the
residents is something
special and seeing how
people really need the
space. This is an
opportunity for us to give
back, the builders the
suppliers, the
manufacturers, all the
people who contribute
engineering and other
things. They do a lot of
volunteering to make these
projects possible.” - HBCF
Since 1991, Housing Unlimited (HUI) has provided
affordable, independent
housing solutions for adults
in mental health recovery in
Montgomery County. For
many of those years, HBCF
has provided HUI with longstanding support and in-kind
contributions on a number
of renovation projects at
their many homes, now
numbering 59.
Starting in a few weeks,
two of HUI’s townhomes in
Rockville will be receiving
much-needed flooring improvements thanks to MBIA
Member HD Supply and
Home Builders Care. HBCF
Board Member Mike Karns of
Winchester Homes is helping
push the project towards
completion.
“We are honored to receive HBCF support and look
forward to working with HD
Supply,” commented HUI
Executive Director Abe
Schuchman.
President Liza Bowles.
Community Service Awards (continued)
(Continued from page 1)
Transactions Group.
Time and time again,
Jack has demonstrated his
personal commitment to
helping his clients and community thrive. He has
served as President of the
Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington, General
Counsel for Housing Unlimited, and, of course was a
long-time board member
and executive committee
member of the Home Builders Care Foundation.
For the past 15 years,
Jack has generously donated
his time, talents, resources
and expertise to Home
Builders Care and has
helped guide our non-profit
through exponential growth.
A board member since 2000,
under his counsel, HBCF has
established subsidiaries, set
up public-private partnerships with several agencies,
ratified construction agreements, procured government-associated funding,
contracted with trades, and
of course merged with the
Building Industries Foundation. Not to mention his
leadership in helping HBCF
earn the Seal of Excellence
for nonprofit management.
The HBCF Board of Directors is honored to recognize the dedication of MBIA
members like Mark, Rich,
Tony and Jack for their
community service. We cannot do what we do without
the direct contributions and
efforts of key supporters
like you! Thank you!
Pictured: HBCF Director Patti
Kane with Jack Orrick of
Linowes & Blocher.
HBCF has been presenting its
Tom Sawyer Community
Service Awards since 1991.
For a complete list of past
winners, please visit
www.hbcf.org.
Home Builders Care Foundation
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT US
President
LIZA BOWLES
Newport Partners
Vice President
CHRIS RACHUBA
The Rachuba Group
Secretary
BOB WARD
Bob Ward Companies
Home Builders Care
Foundation
Patti B. Kane
Foundation Director
The Maryland Center for
Housing
11825 W. Market Place
Fulton, MD 20759
301-776-6212
www.hbcf.org
pkane@hbcf.org
Immediate Past President
MARK BENNETT
Greenebaum Enterprises
Treasurer
MIKE GOLDSTEIN
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
SCOTT ARMIGER
Orchard Development
BILL BILO
Dico, Inc.
Board of Directors 2015
JUDY BORNS
Residential Title & Escrow
STEVE BREEDEN
Security Development Group
HUGH CARROLL
Insurance Associates
RICHARD MACDONOUGH
ARA National Land Services
PETER MCKENNA
Baker Tilly
living in poverty in
TIM NAUGHTON
NVR Inc.
Maryland and the
MICHAEL RUBINFELD
Mid-Atlantic Builders, Inc.
TIM ELLIS
T.W. Ellis
MILES HABER
Monument Construction
JAY HERGENROEDER
Gray and Sons
JOE HIKEL
Shelter Systems
MICHAEL KARNS
Winchester Homes
Did you know that there
are over 699,000 persons
District?
Over 15,000 people are
CHRIS SCHWINDT
Craftmark Group
also homeless in MD &
TED SMART
Wormald Companies
counted as members of
DC with 6,153 of them
homeless families.
CHARLES F. STUART JR.
Miller & Smith Homes
- source The State of
Homelessness in America 2014
R. MARK TAYLOR
Pindar Group
published by the National
PATTI B. KANE ex-officio
Alliance to End Homelessness.
Wednesday May 13
5:30 pm
Maryland Building Industry
Association
The Maryland Center for
Housing
11825 W. Market Place
Fulton, MD 20759
www.marylandbuilders.org
Kelly Grudziecki
Internal Communications
301-776-6213
kgrudziecki@marylandbuilders.
org
Kristin Hogle
External Communications
301-776-6230
khogle@marylandbuilders.org
Home Builders Care
Foundation is a 501
(c) (3) nonprofit
organization.
at
Ruppert Companies
23601 Laytonsville Rd
Laytonsville, MD
20882
The Home Builders Care
Foundation (HBCF) is very
pleased to announce our 3rd
annual Community Builders
Bull & Oyster Roast and we
would love for you to join us
at this fun-draising event!
Once again, our roast
will take place on the
grounds of the beautiful
LEED-certified headquarters
of Ruppert Companies in
Laytonsville.
For over 30 years,
we have been
building to make a
difference in our
communities.
Our work helps non
-profits & local
governments
meet the challenges
of providing a
safety net for our
most vulnerable
citizens.
meat buffet, an oyster bar,
plenty of beverages, live
music & memorable tributes.
Watch for news on our
2015 Honoree! We are hoping for a strong showing of
support and participation
from building industry mem- Roast Sponsor Levels range from
$300 to $1500. A portion of all
bers like you.
In previous years, proceeds from this event accounted for more than 25%
of our program’s direct construction project funds.
Our top level Prime
sponsorship – includes six (6)
tickets, a key opportunity to
promote your business with
our event, plus the bonus of
earning a place on HBCF’s
2015-16 Honor Roll.
Our first two roasts were
great successes with well
over 250 attendees joining
us on sun-filled spring evenings for a delicious pit-
Sponsorship
Opportunities!
Individual tickets are
only $89.
We’d love to see you at
our 2015 Roast!
sponsorships is considered a taxdeductible donation.
Please contact Patti Kane for event
details. 301-776-6212
pkane@hbcf.org
Donate your Clothes!
MBIA’s Professional Women
in Building council will be collecting gently used
men’s and women’s
business attire at
this event.