Our organization's mission is to rebuild lives for those experiencing homelessness through housing and community outreach. Our goals are to: -Establish chapters across the country to address the growing need for housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. HomeAid plans to create a minimum of 3 new chapters resulting in a total of 21 chapters across the country. We will continue to explore new chapter possibilities each year. -Provide the necessary supports to effectively create new housing for the homeless, create successful community outreach programs to provide needed resources beyond just housing and provide on-going support to new and existing chapters. -Grow the HomeAid Outreach program to assist families, veterans, youth and babies through Essential Care Kits programs, Essentials for Young Lives, HomeAid Care (facility enhancements) and a new Workforce Development program.

We aim to create new chapters across the country through our chapter expansion program resulting in the following program strategies. Homeless Housing Development Program: HomeAid partners with nonprofit organizations that need new or expanded facilities have a mission to support the homeless and show a strong client success rate in obtaining self-sufficiency. For these partner organizations, HomeAid leverages its relationships with the local building community and recruits professional homebuilder corporations to serve as “builder captains. ” The builder captain leads and supervises the project and assists with the acquisition of in-kind resources from subcontractors, suppliers, and consultants. As a result, nonprofit service providers own and operate new or expanded facilities at a low direct cost without compromising quality, and may focus their resources on providing life-changing programs. For nonprofit care providers, HomeAid: ? Recruits a builder captain, trades and suppliers through building industry relationships ? HomeAid navigates land planning, construction, and working with municipalities on behalf of homeless service organizations to provide the necessary technical assistance to complete the project. ? Coordinates events and publicity for groundbreaking, dedication and other related events ? Resolves land, permitting and other building issues with city/county agencies, neighborhood associations, and other regulatory or interested parties ? Provides technical assistance to plan, develop, and construct the housing units ? Offers leverage and support for capital campaign proposals through in-kind contributions ? Provides, in partnership with builder captains, both short-term/emergency and long-term housing facilities for the homeless at low overhead cost. By its nature, the HomeAid Housing Development Program brings community resources to a project that would be difficult, if not impossible for the service provider to obtain. For builder captains, HomeAid: ? Screens prospective care provider projects to ensure that the necessary land, permits, funds and organizational stability are in place to ensure a successful project ? Provides project management including tracking of in-kind donation rates and publicly acknowledging contributing trades and partners appropriately ? Coordinates events for trade recruitment, groundbreaking, opening and dedication events ? Leverages resources for gaps in materials and subcontractors via national and local partnerships ? HomeAid leverages connections to raise in-kind donations of labor and materials from trades and suppliers. ? Provides general liability insurance for the project. ? Serves as a liaison between the builder and the service agency. HomeAid delivers a project with an average of 50% of materials and labor donated.

Through our nineteen HomeAid chapters across the country HomeAid has partnered with the home building industry for the past 30 years to create or remodel housing for homeless organizations. By leveraging our relationships with home builders, subcontracts and suppliers we have completed 550 homeless housing projects resulting in 10,500 beds for families, individuals and children experiencing homelessness. Those beds become available for more people in need as people become self-sufficient and move into permanent housing. Initially building only transitional housing primarily for families, HomeAid has expanded its reach to create new housing for the homeless continuum of care from Emergency Housing, to transitional housing to permanent supportive housing. HomeAid America is now the largest provider of homeless housing in the country. HomeAid housing serves people who are homeless often due to circumstances beyond their control. Many include families and individuals who have had a life-changing experience that has left them homeless such as job loss, foreclosure, bankruptcy, domestic violence, illness, disability, death of a spouse, medical expenses for a child, crisis pregnancy, abandoned/neglected youth, national disasters, immigrant families seeking asylum, veterans returning from war and the working poor unable to find affordable housing at poverty level wages. In recent years HomeAid has grown its community outreach efforts expanded and the Essentials campaign was formed. As a result, HomeAid expanded its community outreach programs: HomeAid Cares (shelter maintenance/improvement program), Essentials for Young Lives for homeless families and Essential Care Kits for homeless individuals. These programs continue to grow and thrive as more companies, civic organizations and even faith-based organizations beyond builders, suppliers or trades step forward looking for a way to support HomeAid’s efforts.

HomeAid evaluates the success of each project by tracking the retail value, in-kind donations and amount saved by the agency as a result of HomeAid’s program. For housing development projects, the number of beds the project adds to the community is also tracked. These results are provided within thirty days of the close-out of the project. Community Outreach activities are tracked by the number of activities, volunteers, volunteer companies, volunteer hours, number and type of items collected and distributed to the homeless service agencies and homeless individuals. Year-over-year reporting is maintained to establish the impact that HomeAid is having on America's homeless community. Additionally, HomeAid America executes an independent annual survey to all service agencies benefiting from HomeAid program to evaluate the execution of the HomeAid model, its impact including the number of people who have exited homelessness and secured long term housing. Other surveys include the chapter survey of HomeAid America and the implementation of the Standards of Excellence, a list of requirements related to operations, program, finance, donor relations and overall good nonprofit practices. All HomeAid Chapter staff and HomeAid America staff meet annually to review best practices, survey results and develop plans for improvement and growth for the following year.

Since its inception, HomeAid has completed 550 projects benefiting homeless single women, men, families, youth, veterans, domestic violence victims, people with disabilities, people exiting correctional facilities, teens in crisis pregnancy and neglected or abandoned children. These projects have provided over 10,500 beds for the homeless and saved nonprofit service agency partners over 230 million dollars in construction costs. It is truly an effective collaborative program that has grown to nineteen chapters across the country with plans to continue chapter expansion in five new markets in four states.