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2016-2017
COMMUNITY
IMPACT REPORT
Office: 400 Battaile Drive, Winchester, VA 22601 Phone: 540.662.7066 | Fax: 540.450.0360
[email protected] | www.habitatwfc.org
Tax ID: 54-1816368
Message from the Executive Director
Dear Friends,
In 2016, I had the privilege of being present as three hard working, single mothers became homeowners. Those of you who have experienced these home dedications know how incredibly moving such milestones can be for Habitat for Humanity families and their children.
As powerful as these occasions are, it is the thousands of unseen moments that lead up to these life-changing outcomes. Every Habitat home is possible because of the volunteers who come to our build sites at the crack of dawn preparing for events, greeting other volunteers, or sharing their time and talent as crew leaders. Every “welcome home” moment relies on the unseen hours spent by ReStore staff and volunteers accepting, unloading and selling donations. Every child who finally feels safe playing outside their home does so because someone they never met, or a business or community group they may have never heard of, decided to join us and make a donation.
Unfortunately, the challenges in today’s local housing market require new ideas beyond just affordable home construction. Regionally, 50% of renters and 30% of homeowners are considered cost-burdened. While Habitat for Humanity of Winchester-Frederick-Clarke (HFHWFC) has spent two decades helping renters transition to homebuyers, where do homeowners who are too cost burdened look when they are faced with skyrocketing home preservation expenses? With the closing of Help With Housing in 2016, there are few resources that help provide critical repairs for homeowners who cannot afford to make a costly re-investment in their house.
Since cost-burdened homeowners are approximately twice as likely as cost-burdened renters to be elderly, HFHWFC's Clarke County Repair Program allows us to take on repair projects with the hope of expanding a similar program in Winchester and Frederick County by 2018. HFHWFC is harnessing the power of everyone to find new and creative solutions to the lack of affordable housing stock in our community.
Every partnership, both new and historic, played an instrumental role in increasing our programmatic activity in 2016 and has created momentum for years to come. In 2016, we celebrated our long-standing Wells Fargo Housing Foundation partnership. During the last decade, they have donated over $255,000 for home construction in both Winchester and Frederick County. This was also a year that welcomed renewed and innovative partnerships like those with the Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Through federal HOME funds, the sustainability of our construction fund for the next fiscal year is ensured while our homeowners get the added benefit of downpayment assistance.
Furthermore, 2017 saw us relocate and expand our ReStore operation, pay off all organizational debts and even initiate a long-term endowment fund.
To date, every partnership, every dollar, every ReStore donation, every hour of volunteer time, and every new idea shared allowed us to help 62 families realize homeownership. We have another three homes expecting to close by Spring 2018. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I extend our sincere thanks to every one of our partners who helped us bring strength, stability and self-reliance to families in FY 2016-2017, and for building stronger communities and futures for everyone.
Matthew T. Peterson, M.A., CVA
Executive Director
A Word From the Board of Directors
The Habitat for Humanity of Winchester-Frederick-Clarke board is dedicated to building a stronger, more profound community. Our Board and our staff are committed to ensuring that Habitat remains a relevant nonprofit by reinforcing and expanding our sustainability in this locality in order to address a wide array of housing-related obstacles facing our friends and neighbors.
Whether it is building new homes, building community, re-purposing existing home improvement products, or building individual capacity, all that we do focuses on various housing solutions that work to positively impact our neighborhoods.
After 20 successful years, the Board of Directors is committed to refreshing and renewing the Habitat experience. We wish to operate with excellence, and this past fiscal year paved the way forward. That said, our long-term success – as always – is dependent on the community.
Thus, I take this moment to recognize you. Every thank you. Every handshake. Every hug. I give them back to you. To our partners (volunteers, donors, community leaders, elected officials, parishioners, students and staff), I offer you my sincere thanks for what we have been able to accomplish together so far. We look forward to continue growing on our successes with you as we build, revitalize, restore and educate.
Michael Cutrona
Board President
BUILD
REVITALIZE
The need for affordable housing has never been more urgent. More than 1.6 billion people lack safe, durable shelter they can afford. And communities and nations around the globe urgently need the stability and hope that decent housing and equitable access can help foster. These are the realities behind the development of Habitat for Humanity's new IMPACT.2020 Strategic Plan. We must do more. We must do it faster. We must do it with more impact. And we must work with others to expand reach and depth.
Habitat for Humanity's three-year strategic plan builds squarely on the organization's mission, vision and principles. The plan will come to life in our community as people from all sectors unite to address the urgent need for adequate, affordable shelter.
Motivated by the belief that each of us is called to act justly, Habitat for Humanity seeks to be a partner and catalyst in building communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Habitat seeks to maximize its impact by effectively allocating resources across three spheres of influence: community, sector and society. Habitat's scaling approach focuses on facilitating improvements for a sufficient number of households in a sufficient number of neighborhoods, in a sufficient number of communities. Building homes in this complex environment requires us to innovate and scale to meet the community challenges.
COMMUNITY
SECTOR IMPACT
Habitat for Humanity believes that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. When the broad community is engaged in addressing the urgent need for adequate, affordable shelter, we all become less vulnerable and more resilient. In bringing people together, Habitat practices a philosophy of “a hand up, not a handout," and builds on existing community assets: financial, physical, natural, human, social, and spiritual.
In looking at truly transformed communities, Habitat views bringing people together not only to deliver a product, such as improved housing, but as an essential process for building hope and belief that healthier communities are achievable and beneficial for all. Authentic transformation changes the lives of all who participate: those who need housing, volunteers, advocates, donors and development practitioners. While promoting approaches that assist low-income families in helping themselves, we also help drive the market for housing-related financing, housing improvement services and products that are accessible to local families.
Housing as a product improves health and well-being, leading to increased time on the job and in school. This results in increased family income and educational opportunities, both essential to breaking the cycle of poverty. Housing as a process focuses on building community cohesion that in turn can lead to systemic change, more broadly reducing vulnerability to the cycle of poverty.
When we work together, statistics become faces with names, stereotypes are broken, and everyone has the opportunity both to give and to receive. Only then is lasting change likely to occur.
To Serve Our Community Through the Provision
EDUCATE
RESTORE
HFHWFC has been building homes, communities and hope through direct engagement for over two decades. However, the need for affordable housing locally continues to be great. To affect the housing deficit at scale, HFHWFC has increased our product offerings.
Advocating on behalf of Habitat for Humanity means advocating
for additional access to safe and affordable housing. Rules and regulations about land and building have a major effect on access to housing. In places where there are smart policies in place, there is more access to decent housing. In other places where there are over-regulated policies and systems, there can be barriers that make it difficult for people to find land for construction, build the home itself or be able to afford a place to live.
Habitat for Humanity serves as a voice for people in need of decent housing by working to change laws and shape policies that affect access to housing. With our deep understanding of housing and its role in providing opportunities for families, we seek to reform laws in a collaborative, nonpartisan way. Just like building, advocating for smart policies and systems is a way to create a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Be it by researching more complex housing strategies or exploring public and private property donations, HFHWFC seeks to grow in capacity to serve more individuals. In doing so, adequate shelter becomes the catalyst for community transformation. When we successfully mobilize donors and volunteers for the cause of affordable housing, not only can we raise walls, but we also help increase backing for public policy and market change that can lead to even broader impact.
SUSTAINABILITY
Habitat has become more dynamic in its approach to sustainability. In order to fund the mission in a more proactive way, the ReStore relocated and expanded in April 2017. The ReStore is key to offsetting the operational costs we face. By the end of the current fiscal year, the ReStore will cover 100% of our projected operating expenses, ensuring that every dollar donated to Habitat builds homes, communities and hope.
We have also taken active steps toward debt reduction which has allowed mortgage revenue from our home sales to be transitioned back into our Fund for Humanity. The Fund for Humanity helps offset a portion of construction and community outreach costs.
The Finance and Development teams have worked tirelessly to increase sustainable contributions. By offering multi-faceted platforms in which we can accept donations, HFHWFC can now accept gifts of stocks, bonds and other financial securities.
Planned giving has also been key to future growth. HFHWFC is working with individuals who want to extend their support for our organization and make a lasting impact on families in need of a decent and affordable place to call home.
Habitat’s ReStore and Fund for Humanity are wonderful examples of sustainability-in-action. Because of these, our value proposition is that every donated dollar goes directly to our programs. Therefore, we still need your help in supporting these critical projects. Your gifts drive the mission and allow us all to build impact together for the greater good.
ADVOCATE
of a Wide Spectrum of Housing Solutions.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
2016 - 2017 Families
Habitat for Humanity of Winchester-Frederick-Clarke's audited financial statements and Form 990 are available upon request by emailing [email protected] or by calling 540.662.7066.
REVENUE & SUPPORT
TOTAL EXPENSES
DONORS
2016 - 2017 Families
In-Kind
Whirlpool Corporation
American Woodmark
Lowes
Home Depot
GEODIS
Peacock Cabinetry
BAC | Cans 4 Cancer
Allied Waste
147 North
CertainTeed
Parker's Concrete
City of Winchester
Shenandoah Sand
Elite Insulation
Gary Kula
Geoffrey Wilkes
Dr. Bill Burslem
John Doyle
David Vincent
Chuck Gulosh
Scott Snyder
Cafe Del Sol
Dunn Land Surveys
Harrison and Johnston, PLC
Greg Hutchinson
Kerri Ann Kite
TVBA/Mike Perry
American Woodmark
Loudoun Stairs
Miller’s Supplies At Work
Frogale Lumber
Cochran Lumber
Melnor
Kubic Construction
Carroll Construction Company
Perry Engineering
Miller ACE Hardware
Westminster-Catherbury
White's Ornamental Iron Works
Milantiz
Mover Dudes
Leesa Mayfield Architecture
Every donor is appreciated for the generous support they provide to HFHWFC partner families. Tremendous effort was made to properly recognize all donors in this report; however, if your feel your name was accidentally omitted, please contact us at [email protected]
Staff
Executive Director
Matthew T. Peterson
ReStore
ReStore Director
Cathleen Henderson
ReStore Manager
Andrew Steen
Operations Associate
Julie Boulais
ReStore Ambassador
Jordan Price
Warehouse Associate
Pete Fravel
Warehouse Associate
Garret Price
Main Office
Construction Director
Amy Chasler
Finance Director
Jeff Kenney
Resource Development Director
Kimberley Wilt
Program Director
Julia Fielding
Front Desk Staff
Charlotte Washington
Barbara Fogle
Marketing Trainee
Conrad Manning
Board of Directors
Executive Officers Members of the Board
President
Michael Cutrona
Vice President
David Shore
Treasurer
Ronald Layman
Secretary
Shawn Washington
Lee Leonard
Paul Zisserson
Chuck James
Candace Davenport
Brenda Gibson
Chris Scott
Gregory Bowman
Kathy Hudson
Terri Hirst
David Donovan
Eileen Horner
Michael Packard
Fadua Houser
“It is not enough to limit your love to your own
nation, to your own group. You must respond
with love even to those outside of it… This
concept enables people to live together not as
nations, but as the human race.”
—Clarence Jordan
Theologian & Affordable Housing Pioneer