Housing Development Alliance

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

 

A new employee!

Hey Guys, this is Janie again with some exciting news!

The Housing Development Alliance recently added the position of Rehabilitation Specialist/Energy Efficiency Auditor to the staff roster. Our new employee, John Bush, a former 1990’s AmeriCorps volunteer with the Housing Development Alliance, will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization’s Home Rehabilitation Program, including visiting and assessing possible work location, estimating repair coast, obtaining bids for jobs and overseeing staff carpenters and volunteer workers. In addition to the duties as Rehabilitation Specialist, John will also be the Housing Development Alliance Energy Efficiency Auditor. In this position, he will ascertain the energy efficiency of a client’s home, and then design and implement a plan to bring the home to the highest level of energy efficiency possible, insuring the home is both safe and economical.

John is married to a former employee of the Housing Development Alliance. His wife Adrienne Szabo Bush was the Volunteer and Community Coordinator for the organization from 2002-2006. She is now the Director of Planning and Development with the Hazard Perry County Community Ministries. They have one daughter, Dana, a beautiful and VERY energetic 2 year old.

We are really thrilled with the addition to our staff. He brings with him great experience and an enthusiasm to work with the Housing Development Alliance staff, volunteers and clients to bring safe decent and affordable housing to those in need. We are looking forward to a very happy, very rewarding and very productive future with John.


posted by weeberdoll  # 12:33 PM 0 Comments

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

 

An interesting occurence

We had set up a “weekly blog rotation” in order to make sure that the staff was posting on a regular basis. Well, we have not been nearly every week and it is not even my turn in the rotation but something interesting happened and I am just getting some of the details on it.

We have stock. One of the Friends of HDA called Scott and asked “Do you accept donations of stock?” and not being one to turn down a donation Scott said sure. So now we own approximately $540 of Target shares. So I thought “That’s great, why not just give us cash?” And I was soon told – “Taxes.” Basically, our kind donor was able to give us the full amount of the stock as a donation. If he had converted it to cash his capital gains would have been taxed, which means his donated amount would have been smaller which means his tax deduction would have been smaller too. So, HDA gets a larger donation AND the donor does not have to pay capital gains on his appreciated stock. It’s a win-win (a confusing one, but a win-win still the same). David found a much better explanation at -

http://www.fool.com/FoolCharityFund/Donating_Stock.htm

So, if anybody has some appreciated stock that is burning a hole in your pocket – the Housing Development Alliance is now able to accept it as a donation. How cool is that?

posted by weeberdoll  # 10:41 AM 1 Comments

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