Industry Involvement
First Housing is a current member of:

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• Angelwood, Inc. (Jacksonville) provides residential group homes for children and adults with disabilities where they can learn valuable skills that assist them in utilizing community resources that could lead to future independence.
  
  

• Children's Home Society of Florida (Winter Park) provides approved family homes for homeless and dependent children.

• Florida Community Loan Fund serves those persons, organizations, and projects with insufficient access to capital from conventional sources. Its financing supports local community development activities conducted by organizations that are accountable to, governed by, or otherwise based in the communities they serve. These projects are planned and implemented with the intention of changing the long-term economic and social environment for poor and other disenfranchised persons.
  

• Harbor House (Jacksonville) provides safe shelter, a 24-hour crisis hotline, counseling, and emotional support, and legal advocacy for thousands of domestic violence survivors and their children each year. Harbor House also prepares survivors for re-entry into the community - connecting them to resources that will enable them to live independently, safely and peacefully.
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami builds homes and communities in partnership with low-income families within the Greater Miami area.
  
  
• Friends of Joshua House Foundation, Inc. (Tampa) provides an emergency shelter home for Tampa Bay's abused, neglected and abandoned children.
  
  
• Keystone Challenge Fund is a nonprofit corporation established in 1991 with a primary purpose to operate for the advancement of affordable housing. Their mission is to provide homebuyer education and affordable financing to low and moderate income homebuyers.
  
  
• Kimberly Home, a transitional housing program created to meet the specific needs of expectant mothers in crisis. The home offers a secure and nurturing environment where they can learn how to care for themselves and their babies, and eventually transition to independent living.
  
  
• Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida, a countywide organization that develops affordable single-family housing and provides home ownership counseling in English, Spanish and Creole under their Mortgage Ready Partners Program
  
  
• Paint Your Heart Out Tampa organizes a one day volunteer effort to paint the homes of low income, elderly residents of Tampa.
  
  
• Refuge House of Tallahassee provides emergency shelter, counseling, and community education and training for abused women and children.
  
  
• The Spring of Tampa Bay, Inc. (Tampa) provides sanctuary and services to abused women and their victim children.