We are excited to welcome you to our 2025 Habitat Florida Affiliate Conference! This year’s theme is Building Tomorrow, Together. As a network, we are embracing change, overcoming challenges, and finding innovative ways to serve our communities. Across Florida, the affordable housing crisis has required our affiliates to continually adapt. Yet, in the face of these challenges, the spirit of Habitat remains strong. Affiliates across the state are scaling up, building more, and serving more families than ever before. Together, we are forging a future where safe, affordable housing is within reach for all.
We have lined up an incredible slate of speakers and sponsors to share their wealth of knowledge with our affiliate network! Thank you for your participation! If you are looking to book your rooms for the conference, you can do so here. The hotel will discount the taxes with a copy of your tax-exempt certificate. This conference, from April 28-30, 2025 at The Shores Resort and Spa is exclusively for Florida affiliate employees and volunteers.
Join us to learn about how the ASO is organizing and engaging with legislators and affiliates in statewide policy and appropriations issues. Speakers: Roxanne Young, Habitat Florida Executive Director Jessica Meyer, Habitat Florida Communications Manager
Sunday March 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Bill France C1st Floor
In this panel discussion, regional Habitat leaders will showcase best practices in construction program and project management. Operational topics may include: budgeting and scheduling practices and tools, staffing structures, contracting practices, and process efficiencies. Come prepared with your questions, as well as your own ideas and success stories to share.
Fundamentals and benefits of accessing capital markets. Learning objectives: 1. Understanding mortgage leveraging. 2. Value of extracting capital from assets. 3. Tools and analysis required to appropriately access the capital markets. 4. Overview Habitat Mortgage Solutions and Products.
Speaker: Tim McCue, HFHI Associate Director of Credit and Portfolio Management
Sunday March 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Bill France B1st Floor
This session will discuss how to develop and customize your Homeowner Education Program to give homebuyers tools to help make them informed, successful homeowners. We will review affiliates’ different topics and approaches and exchange ideas about maximizing the partnership process as a learning opportunity.
Presenters: Darlene Wolfson, Habitat of Greater Volusia, Director of Homeowner Services Lissette Gomez, Habitat of Greater Miamie, Family Services Director
Sunday March 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
River Room11th Floor
Recruiting, training and retaining high performance team members
Building strong qualified teams is harder now than ever for Habitat ReStores. This session will include innovative ways to recruit, train and retain a diverse, talented team for store operations. Participants will share best practices for the employee life cycle – including creating job descriptions, hosting team training events and establishing onboarding practices.
