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.
Donation procurement: Balancing store operations while supporting a robust donation stream
Store leaders are busy and wear many hats; successful donor outreach only adds additional work to the long list of to-do items. Finding a balance between effective store design, supporting store operations and continuing to grow donor partnerships is essential to successful growth strategies. In this session, we will discuss engagement strategies, partnership opportunities, and time management tips to support working to build ongoing giving partnerships with businesses in their geographic service area.
Led by: Jeremy Keen, Habitat International Round table discussion facilitated by Thor Barraclaugh, Chief Program Officer, Broward County
Saturday March 15, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Bill France C1st 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.
