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.
Vice President of Programs, Habitat for Humanity of Pensacola
Betsy McDonald is from Milton, FL and has a master’s degree in political science from The University of West Florida. Betsy has worked with Habitat for Humanity for more than 6 years, and with Pensacola Habitat for Humanity for more than 4 years. Betsy is really interested in program... Read More →
Monday April 28, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT Bill France C1st Floor
Join Ashon Nesbitt, CEO of the Florida Housing Coalition, and representatives from Volusia County and the City of Daytona Beach, to learn how Habitat of Greater Volusia has successfully partnered with these entities to access SHIP dollars.
ASHON NESBITT is CEO of the Florida Housing Coalition.A respected community and nonprofit leader, Mr. Nesbitt was previously Chief Programs Officer and Technical Advisor with the Coalition where he has led the Community Land Trust Institute as well as the Center for Racial Equity... Read More →
Monday April 28, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT Bill France C1st Floor
This presentation will introduce the Cornerstone Housing Initiative as a comprehensive approach to addressing Central Florida’s housing crisis. By engaging with this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the systemic issues driving the housing crisis and learn how community engagement and systems thinking are being leveraged to pioneer changes in the housing system considered fundamentally broken.
To continue transforming each affiliate within a partnership that would be unattainable – perhaps inconceivable – if either one of us were to work individually. The session will cover key approaches to growing together.
Speaker: Amiramis Desueza, Executive Director, Highlands County Habitat
