3071 118th Avenue N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33716


Tel: 727-536-4755
Fax: 727-209-2191
Email: volunteer@phfh.org

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Tues. - 9 am to 6 pm
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Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County
is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit housing organization based on Christian principle. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.

The support of the Pinellas County community is crucial to our mission. Like all Habitat for Humanity affiliates, we are raise our funds locally, receiving no financial support from Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, GA.

Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual, faith community, civic organizations, and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - 'sweat equity' - into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build still more houses.

To learn more about Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County and its mission to eliminate poverty housing in Pinellas County, attend one of our NUTS and BOLTS Orientation sessions. Click here for more information.

Our affiliate serves the whole of Pinellas County, Florida from main offices in St. Petersburg including, among others, the cities of Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Tarpon Springs, Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, Oldsmar, and Ozona.

HfHPC is governed by a board of volunteer directors who represent the various and vital interests of our community, and who bring to the organization essential competence in law, architecture, finance, and social service, and who are fervently committed to Habitat's goal of eliminating poverty housing by building decent, affordable homes for the needy of Pinellas County communities.


Main Office
3071 118th Ave North
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
Office: 727-536-4755  Fax: 727-209-2191
Monday - Friday (9 am - 5 pm)

Habitat ReStore
3071 118th Ave North
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
727-209-2199
Tuesday - Saturday (9 am - 4 pm)


Advisory Board

Joe Bourdow Cox Target Media
Walter Boykin HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Nancy Brown HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Norm Bungard HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Ray Ferrara ProVise Management Group
Tony Griffith Attorney at Law
Roger Hessel Taunton Metals
Jacqui Hosman HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Karen Hosman HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Pam Lagano HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Virginia Lomagno Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate
Russell Lampe HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Susan Latvala Pinellas County Board of Commissioners
Mark Marquardt HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Judge Walter Logan HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Mary McGrady HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Jeff Mitchell HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Tom Oberhofer HfHPC Board Member Emeritus
Grady Pridgen Grady Pridgen, Inc.
Craig Sher The Sembler Company
 

Board of Directors

Jay Miller, Chairman of the Board 

Cherin Stover, Secretary
Charles Franckle, Treasurer
Gina Johnson, Vice Chair
Victoria ByRoade Sherry Ray
Gary Couch Chryl Sage
Annie Dabbs Steve Stuebs
Eric Feder Susan Sullivan
Dina Lomagno Vicki Tylman
Marquaz McGhee Bill Van Law 

The officers in the above list, together with three at-large board members, constitute the affiliate's Executive Committee, which oversees operations.

Implementing the Board's policies and goals, and carrying out ongoing activities are an office staff, a roster of skilled "Site Supervisors", and a set of volunteer committees.


Office Staff

Barbara Inman, Executive Director
Patti Hanks, Development Director
Jamie Cataldo, Communications Director
Robert Reeves, Program Manager
Kevin Klucas, Volunteer Coordinator
Kristy Wirth, Development Manager
Scot Montjoy, Construction Manager
Ken Rush, Project Manager
Ron Spoor, Land Development Manager
Dana Meek, Acting Store Manager

Bob Arnold, Accountant & Habitat ReStore
Margaret Sullivan, Secretary/Receptionist
Amy Meek, Grants and Compliance Officer
and our wonderful volunteers


Construction work is overseen by paid & volunteer field staff 

 

Vince Balakier David Morris
Dan Bordeaux Charlie Ross
Price Buhrman Deb Smead
John Cissell  Dan Stowers
Jimmy Crossley Jack Sutfin
Dave Fornek Terald Thompson
Ron Gerson James Vail
  Tom Weidenkopf
  Wayne Wilford

 


Volunteer Committees
each chaired by a Board member or volunteer, include the following

Homeowner Services Hammers & Heartstrings Ball
Faith Relations Finance (Board Committee)
  Women Build
   

 


OUR HISTORY

Habitat for Humanity International was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda, and is headquartered in Americus, Georgia. Its work in the United States is accomplished by affiliates. Habitat affiliates are independent, nonprofit [501(c)(3)] organizations that are organized by local citizens and operate with local boards and local volunteers. There are more than 1,600 U.S. affiliates spread among all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers provide most of the labor, and faithful individual and corporate donors provide the money and materials to build Habitat houses.

Habitat's mission is to eliminate poverty housing from the Earth. Habitat has taken  its vision of a world with no more shacks to 80 nations. To date, HFHI has completed more than 250,000 simple, decent, affordable houses around the globe.


Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County was born at a meeting of the St Petersburg Ministerial Association  in 1984.  The late Rev Bob Gemmer, a member of Habitat for Humanity, International (HFHI), was the sparkplug responsible for Habitat Pinellas being on the agenda of that meeting.  Reverend James Schwarzlose of the First Congregational Church of St Petersburg was named the first Executive Director (unpaid), and spoke at several churches to start the fire burning.  The articles of incorporation were submitted to HFHI, and the affiliate became officially recognized in 1985.

The first house was built for Jane Dunaway and her family, and dedicated on July 29, 1985.  Jane continues to enjoy her house to this day and she is an avid volunteer, never wavering from her personal ministry of helping others to realize dreams of home ownership.  Incidentally, Jane was required to put in 1,000 hours of sweat equity to get her house!  Tom Webster was the first project director and worked at considerable sacrifice to himself and his family.

The Board of Directors, the governing body, had several decisions to make.  It was decided to build only frame construction and to construct new houses, not rehab.  Stories are told of the Board taking collections at board meetings to pay for construction materials. 

Throughout the years, thousands have participated in this ministry.  We first branched out and built in Clearwater after initial construction in St Petersburg.  The first house sponsored by a church was in the Harbordale section of St Petersburg and was built by the First Presbyterian Church of St Petersburg.  Then came Safety Harbor, Dunedin, Largo, and most recently, Tarpon Springs. The Dunedin houses, all on Lyndhurst, came about from donations from Gladys Douglas Hackworth and the First Presbyterian Church of Dunedin.

The first “all congregation” built house was dedicated in St Petersburg with funds and labor provided by 6 churches and a temple.  An early corporate sponsor was Coldwell Banker, which provided funds and labor for a house, as did Nations Bank.  Today, many churches and corporations assist in this effort.  We have always been an ecumenical ministry needing assistance from all of God’s people, without regard to which faith they espouse.  We look to the future with an eye to the past to learn from those who gave strength upon which to build.

In February of 2003, HfHPC dedicated its 100th house in Pinellas County! The house, at 882 13th Avenue South, in St. Petersburg, was sponsored by Cox Target Media, producer of the familiar Valpak discount mailings.

 


OUR OUTREACH

In keeping with its Covenant with Habitat for Humanity International, HfHPC tithes its income to that organization to support the building of decent, affordable housing throughout the World. Some of HfHPC's volunteers, at their own expense, occasionally travel to distant lands to spend their working vacations helping the locals to build.


LEARN MORE

  • At least once, visit the web site of Habitat for Humanity International, where you can learn about Habitat's history, mission, and volunteer opportunities around the world. And regularly revisit our site to see how we are fulfilling Habitat's principles and mission in Pinellas County. Bookmark us!
  • If you or someone you know is in need of decent, affordable housing, refer them to this website or our office for more information about the process of applying for Habitat home ownership.
  • Make a financial contribution to our mission of building decent, affordable housing for those in need in Pinellas County.
  • Volunteer some of your time, effort, and skill to our work: as a construction worker, office assistant, or committee member, fund-raiser, contractor, or Board member. If you have the means, volunteer your company or organization as a working team or as a house sponsor!
     

Financials:

Pinellas Habitat 2006-2005

Habitat Pinellas 2007-2006

Habitat Pinellas 2008-2007

 

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