Annual Golf Tournament

Charity Golf Tournament The First Housing Foundation held its 8th annual charity golf tournament at Westchase Golf Club in Tampa on Thursday, January 24th, 2008. A total of $15,000 was raised to benefit The Children's Home, Inc. of Tampa.

The Children's Home, Inc. operates a variety of child-focused and family centered programs throughout Tampa Bay. Its mission is to create opportunities for children to be successful, valued, and respected in safe and nurturing families. In addition to caring for nearly 90 abused or neglected children through its residential treatment program each year, The Children's Home has assisted over 25,000 children through therapeutic services and placed 6,000 children with loving foster or adoptive families since its inception over 115 years ago. For more information, visit their website at www.childrenshome.org.

Industry Involvement
First Housing is a current member of:

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• Immokalee Child Care Center (Immokalee) provides subsidized child care services (including breakfast, lunch, and a snack each day) to the children of migrant farm workers and other low income working families.
  
  
• Paint Your Heart Out Tampa organizes a one day volunteer effort to paint the homes of the low income, elderly residents of Tampa.

In addition, at year-end 2007, a $2,000 donation was made to each of the non-profit entities from the First Housing Foundation, Inc.

• 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

• Community Enterprise Investments. Incorporated in 1974, Community Equity Investments, Inc. is a nonprofit agency serving Escambia County, Florida. The agency's Homeownership Program was initiated five years ago to provide affordable housing and homeownership training and counseling to low and moderate-income families.

• 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.
  
  
• H.A.N.D.S. of Central Florida Housing and Neighborhood Development Services of Central Florida, Inc. is a private nonprofit affordable housing agency incorporated in July l989. HANDS serve the Florida Counties of Orlando, Orange, Osceola and Seminole. The organization has provided comprehensive housing counseling and information and referral services to over 48,000 families since it inception. Housing counseling services currently offered by the agency to low-income individuals include: home buyer education, credit repair, pre-qualification, budgeting, and default prevention.
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami builds homes and communities in partnership with low-income families within the Greater Miami area.
  
  
• Joshua House (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.
  
  
• Miami-Dade Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. 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
  
  
• Refuge House (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.