Habitat Florida 2025 Affiliate Conference: Full Schedule

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.

4:15pm EDT

Nonprofit Finance Best Practices

Monday April 28, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT

Dolphin Room

Managing nonprofit finances can be tricky, but we have three experts ready to share their best practices and answer your questions!

Speakers: Habitat Florida Finance Committee members: Mike Sutton, Dianne McMaster, and David Bogerding

Speakers

Tina Forcier

CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Hillsborough County., Inc

Roxanne Young

Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Florida, Inc

Committed to establishing effective relationships with stakeholders to re-imagine organizational value, bring strategic focus, construct financial stability and strive for organizational excellence.

Dianne McMaster

CFO, Habitat for Humanity of Pensacola

David A .Borgerding

CFO, Stratos Jet Charters, Inc

Monday April 28, 2025 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
Dolphin Room 2nd Floor

Finance & Mortgage Services

9:15am EDT

Disaster Resilience & the AmeriCorps Program

Tuesday April 29, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am EDT

Dolphin Room

Habitat Florida is starting an AmeriCorps Program! Come meet out Program Manager, learn the ins and outs of our program design and see if a partnership in this program would be right for your affiliate. You can also learn how your affiliate can be more prepared for hurricanes and other disasters.

Speaker: Aja Tyler, Habitat Florida AmeriCorps Program Manager

Speakers

Roxanne Young

Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Florida, Inc

Committed to establishing effective relationships with stakeholders to re-imagine organizational value, bring strategic focus, construct financial stability and strive for organizational excellence.

Jo Rapps

Director of Operations, Habitat for Humanity Florida

As the new Director of Operations for Habitat Florida I am eager to meet the Habitat Florida network of affiliates and partners.

Aja Tyler

Tuesday April 29, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am EDT
Dolphin Room 2nd Floor

General

10:30am EDT

Cross Departmental Collaboration & Building Strategic Partnerships

Tuesday April 29, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Dolphin Room

Join us for the presentation of a unique cross-departmental collaboration that has strengthened existing and introduced new strategic partnerships for the affiliate. This presentation will focus on case studies of specialty builds such as our CEO Build and PGA Tour Wives Association Build in partnership with a media partner (i.e Tampa Bay Business Journal) to increase support, media awareness, and funds. These specialty builds have allowed the affiliate to tap into new networks to drive support from community organizations and create an experience that keeps these individuals and groups supporting year after year.

Speaker: Xavier Oliver, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulfside

Speakers

Xavier Oliver

Director of Corporate Partnerships, Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulfside

Hi! I am the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Habitat for Humanity of Tampa Bay Gulfside and I've been with the affiliate since July 2021.

Tuesday April 29, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Dolphin Room 2nd Floor

General

2:15pm EDT

Habitat Capital LLC: What Is It? What Does It Do? How Can Affiliates Leverage the Resource?

Tuesday April 29, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT

Dolphin Room

Habitat Capital’s mission is to create and provide financial services and capital that enable equitable homeownership opportunities and affordable housing solutions for underserved people in order to foster vibrant and diverse communities throughout the United States.

Habitat Capital recently embarked on a strategic planning effort to help better align its products and services to affiliate needs and to ensure long-term sustainability, right-sized growth and more focused impact. This session will provide an overview of the plan’s strategy, goals and objectives, in addition to current and future offerings.

Learning objectives:
1. CDFI
2. Habitat Capital current and future state
3. Habitat Capital products
4. Habitat Capital programs: New Markets Tax Credit, mortgage financing, affiliate lending

Speakers: Habitat International

Speakers

Tim McCue

Associate Director of Credit and Portfolio Management, HFHI

Tomesha Rene Davis

Tuesday April 29, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
Dolphin Room 2nd Floor

Finance & Mortgage Services

3:30pm EDT

Local Advocacy: Success Stories and Best Practices

Tuesday April 29, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT

Dolphin Room

Moderated by Jessica Meyer, this panel will take a deeper dive into local advocacy with three affiliate experts. This is a perfect session for those looking to go further with their advocacy efforts.

Speakers: Danielle Stroud, President & CEO, Habitat Lake-Sumter, Trevor Loomis, President & CEO, Habitat Indian River, Sam Young, President & CEO, Habitat Pensacola

Speakers

Advocacy

Habitat Florida 2025 Affiliate Conference

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