Homebuilding Education Leadership Program: The Endowment’s flagship grantmaking effort, this dynamic program is establishing closer relationships with institutions of higher education for the benefit of residential construction. The Endowment has provided a major grant to help establish a new specialization track on Residential Construction Management within East Carolina University’s Department of Construction Management. With so few programs focusing on residential construction, our goal is to triple the number of universities and colleges offering residential construction degree tracks or areas of focus by 2015.

Scholar-In-Residence Program: A grant from the Endowment provides support for a research scholar to work closely with the NAHB Research Center and NAHB.
 

Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University: The Endowment and the Center have developed a close relationship. The Joint Center has received support for the development of it’s annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, as well as a variety of presentations, lectures, books, and studies examining the nation’s housing industry.

 

Building Homes of Our Own: The Endowment supported the development of this award-winning curriculum tool for middle and high school students and teachers that focuses on the complex nature of providing the American Dream.  The program was selected by executives from eight top U.S. school districts as a finalist for the first Computers for Youth Family Learning Software of the Year Award.

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Home Builders Institute (HBI) Outreach to Minority Colleges and Universities: The Endowment is assisting HBI in establishing NAHB student chapters at historically black colleges and universities and programs with large Hispanic populations.

 

HBI Career Services Package: The Endowment provided substantial funding to support this HBI initiative that provides people considering careers in the housing industry with information on the many opportunities and facets of the industry.  This critical endeavor reaches out to young people and the parents, counselors and teachers who influence their career decisions. The campaign was designed to showcase the many rewarding careers in today’s home building industry.   

National Housing Endowment Major Scholarship Programs: Through its major scholarship programs (Centex Homes, Evans, Glunt, Gilman, Smith, Stuard, and NAHB Women’s Council), the National Housing Endowment gives over $250,000 yearly in scholarships to attract the best and the brightest to the residential construction industry. In many cases, we provide opportunities for those who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost.