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.
Does your staff and/or board not understand the basics of financial accountability? This session will instruct participants on basic financial statement literacy as well as some of the most important ratios to keep affiliate accountability to donors and financial partners. Learning Objectives: Attendees will learn the basic financial concepts to promote accountability. Attendees will be able to: 1. Understand affiliate financial reports & fiscal health. 2. Learn the importance of speaking the appropriate “financial language” of the board and staff. 3. Review time-value-of-money concepts and their impacts on mortgage loan receivables on the financial statement, mortgage sale transactions, and third-party origination partnerships
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
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Learn more about creating homeowner selection policies, complying with lending laws and regulations, and supporting homeowners before and after the house construction process.
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
