Annual Report 2010

Hawaii Habitat’s Mission:

Our mission is to support our statewide
affiliates by facilitating efforts to secure
resources to build homes, promote the unique
Habitat self help model, and raise awareness
that housing is a basic human need.

Hawaii Habitat’s Vision:

All people in Hawaii have housing in
which they can thrive.

Hawaii Habitat’s Work:

As a statewide support organization (SSO) affiliated with Habitat for Humanity
International we support the work of Habitat for Humanity affiliates in Hawaii through
four programs designated by Habitat. They are:
Resource Development Training
Advocacy Disaster Preparedness
 Hawaii Habitat Board of Directors & Staff

Executive Committee

President Vice President Secretary Treasurer

Chandler W. Richard Rosemary David
Rowe Jr. Emery Slabaugh Enersen

Directors
Steve Bader Kama Hopkins
Darryl Banks Abe Lee
Thad Bond Bob Lindsey
Sen. Suzanne Chun-Oakland Ritchie Mudd
Mike Dang Ty Nohara
Ron Davis Peter Savio
Ron Federizo Jasmine Tso

Staff and VISTA Members

Executive Operations Affiliate & Community Green Building

Director Manager Relations/Fundraising Associate
Kathleen Mandy Jansen Associate Mike Day
Hasegawa Laura Fay

A Special Mahalo to our Accountant Paul Caster!

 President’s Letter

Dear Board Members and Friends,

I would like to invite you to read our 2010 Annual Report, which highlights the significant
accomplishments which have been achieved this year. Please also carefully review our
Treasurer’s narrative report. Both reports indicate that we are in a much better financial
situation today than we were just one short year ago.

We have much to be proud of this year. We received a contract from the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands that enabled us to expand our training program for affiliates and to
begin preparation for a 20 home statewide build on Hawaiian Home Lands. Despite a
continuing delay in receiving a related technical assistance contract and construction funds
for the affiliates, we have been able to continue our ongoing programs and to expand to
include two new programs.

We have begun statewide quarterly networking meetings with affiliate Family

Services staff and Construction Site Supervisors.
A grant from the Swayne Foundation has enabled us to begin planning an On-site
Food Production pilot program for Habitat Homeowners to produce their own fruits
and vegetables on their land.
Additionally, we have completed the strategic planning process which began last year. With
its completion we have seen a strengthened relationship between Hawaii Habitat for
Humanity and the affiliates. Another result has been the formation of a Collaborative
Fundraising Committee comprised of affiliate and Hawaii Habitat staff and interested board
members. The level of professional talent and enthusiasm exhibited so far is exciting and
holds promise for future collaborative efforts to benefit all.

As 2010 comes to a close we look forward to a promising 2011. I would like to express my
sincere thanks to the board members and staff of Hawaii Habitat for their concerted efforts
to keep this valuable program moving forward.

Chandler W. Rowe, Jr.

President, Hawaii Habitat for Humanity Association
 Executive Director’s Letter

Aloha Hawaii Habitat Board Members,

Working for Habitat for Humanity is very rewarding. It’s such a blessing to be able to
see your work turn in to homes for people who need them most. Along with those
newly built houses come the stories of people’s lives being touched, healed and
changed. Recently we put together a 30 minute panel discussion about Habitat for
Humanity to be aired on Olelo Community Media. The panel included a new Habitat
Homeowner who deeply moved me as he spoke with gratitude and tears in his eyes
about the many volunteers who helped him build his family’s home and touched their
lives.

Working for Habitat isn’t always easy. This recession has been challenging for Habitat
State Support Organizations (SSOs) across the country. We have been charged with an
ever expanding mission which includes providing resources to affiliates so that they can
build more homes, advocating for affordable housing on a local and a national level,
providing trainings for affiliates and disaster preparedness. Although our mission has
grown, our funding has become increasingly difficult to come by. Several SSOs have
had to close their doors in 2010.We are thankful to not only have made it through the
year, but to have grown our program in the process.

Working with Habitat means doors to opportunities open at unexpected times and
places. It means needing to be open to people and prospects. As this year ends new
opportunities have come our way that may greatly strengthen Habitat’s work in
Hawaii. It looks to be an exciting year.

With wishes for a blessed new year,

Kathleen Hasegawa
Executive Director, Hawaii Habitat for Humanity Association
Resource Development and Management

Hawaii Habitat…

Has disbursed a total of $360,000 to affiliates to build

homes with partner families in 2010 including:

o Federal Home Loan Bank Grants: $60,000 %37

o Office of Hawaiian Affairs Loans: $180,000
%63
o Grant in Aid Loans: $120,000

Has over $100,000 available in “revolved” funds

to be loaned out in the OHA Revolving Loan Fund.
% Funded through Hawaii Habitat

Has disbursed its first three “revolved” loans out of % Funded through Affiliates
our statewide Grant in Aid revolving loan fund in 2010.

Has funded an average of 37% of the cost of each home to affiliates in 2010.

Has finished disbursement and final reporting on a $300,000 construction grant from
the state of Hawaii, as well as a $390,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of
Seattle in 2010.

In June, Hawaii Habitat received $200,000 from the Department of Hawaiian Home
Lands to help affiliates build 20 homes on DHHL lands. DHHL will provide a total
of $2 million to affiliates statewide through this contract with Hawaii Habitat to
build homes for low income Native Hawaiian families, mostly on large parcels of
undivided interest land.

Hawaii Habitat put in a successful application to take part in 2011’s Hawaii Pacific
Area Combined Federal Campaign. In 2010, over $7000 was pledged to Hawaii
Habitat through this program.

Hawaii Habitat for Humanity has helped fund 17 houses, or about

15,000 square feet worth of simple, decent homes in Hawaii in 2010.
In addition, in 2010 Hawaii Habitat submitted applications to the following
organizations/foundations on behalf of affiliates:
o The Wal-Mart State Giving Program
o Ad2
o Partners in Sustainability (A partnership between HFHI and the Home Depot Foundation)
o The Swayne Family Foundation
o The Island Innovation Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation

Hawaii Habitat’s fundraising committee met regularly and began establishing new
possible fundraising partnerships with realtors and coffee farmers.

Hawaii Habitat established and held the first meeting of the Collaborative
Fundraising Committee to work together with affiliates to develop resources for
Habitat statewide.

Over 60% of the cost of the Bell family home, built by Habitat for Humanity West
Hawaii, was funded by grants and loans through Hawaii Habitat for Humanity.
Training and Technical Assistance

Hawaii Habitat has grown significantly in its capacity to deliver training and technical
assistance to our affiliates in 2010, and is poised to continue this growth in 2011.

In 2010 we developed a new training/technical assistance program that gives

Construction Site Supervisors and Familiy Services representatives from affiliates
across the state the opportunity to meet and network quarterly. The meetings, and
transportation for one representative per affiliate per group were funded 100% by
Hawaii Habitat for Humanity through our contract with the Department of Hawaiian
Homelands. Representatives were able to get together to network, share best
practices, and listen to presentations relevant to their respective committees. These
groups will continue to meet quarterly in 2011.

Maureen Howard, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Washington State,

also came out to train Hawaii Habitat staff on development of trainings and
networking groups.

In 2010 Hawaii Habitat was able to begin once again fully funding monthly
conference calls and quarterly in-person meetings of the Affiliate Advisory
Committee. The first meeting was held on Maui in October.

Hawaii Habitat has secured sponsors and is currently planning its first statewide
conference for Habitat affiliates to be held on June 23rd and June 24th, 2011. Hawaii
Habitat will fund two to three representatives from each affiliate to attend the
conference, which will be held on O’ahu.

In July, Hawaii Habitat was able to bring Mary Ellen Taylor, Senior Director of US
Learning and Organizational Development with Habitat for Humanity
International, to Hawaii to hold training sessions with affiliates in conjunction with
Hawaii Habitat’s July Board Meeting, as well as to facilitate a strategic planning
session with affiliates and Hawaii Habitat Board and staff

In October , we hosted Anna Beningo, Program Manager of the Habitat for

Humanity International capacity building program to attend the first quarterly
meeting of the Affiliate Advisory Committee as a guest speaker.
Sustainable Building and Green Initiatives

Hawaii has some of the highest

energy and transportation costs in
the nation. To help with this issue,
and to encourage food sovereignty
and sustainability, Hawaii Habitat
for Humanity applied for and was
awarded $15,000 from the Swayne
Family Foundation grant for a
pilot “On-Site Food Production”
project. The grant will provide for
21 families statewide, or three from each affiliate, to receive raised bed gardens, fruit
trees and a small aquaponics or hydroponics system to help them grow their own
food on their land.

In 2010, Hawaii Habitat applied for a grant through HFHI and The Home Depot
Foundation called “Partners in Sustainability,” to fund a full time Green Buildling
Specialist. Although the application ultimately wasn’t funded due to Hawaii’s
regional isolation and transportation costs, it received high praise and support from
HFHI staffers working in Sustainable Programs and we will continue to look for
new venues to fund the program.

Hawaii Habitat is connecting homeowner’s with free refurbished computers

through a program with HFHI and the Microsoft Foundation called REDEMtech.

Hawaii Habitat is taking part in a light bulb swap through the Blue Planet
Foundation, where homeowners can exchange their current old bulbs for new,
energy efficient ones free of charge.

Hawaii Habitat is laying the groundwork for Hawaii to become the first state whose
Habitat homes are 100% Energy Star certified, beginning in 2011.
Advocacy
Hawaii Habitat is involved in advocacy on both the local and the national level.
In 2010 Hawaii Habitat focused most of its local and national advocacy efforts on
getting an exemption for Habitat affiliates from the SAFE Act. This federal legislation
requires that mortgage loan originators must meet certain requirements and receive a
Mortgage Lender License in order to originate loans. The originator must also pay
certain licensing fees and be covered by a surety bond.

Mortgage loan originator means an individual who for compensation or gain or in the
expectation of compensation or gain takes a residential mortgage loan application or
offers or negotiates terms of a resident mortgage loan and is sponsored by a mortgage
lender, broker or regulated consumer lender licensed by the Division of Banking.
Habitat should clearly be excluded from these provisions because Habitat is not
compensated by interest or fees on its loans. All of these requirements would cause
undue mortgage expenses and staff hours at the affiliate level.

We attempted to address this situation for affiliates in Hawaii on the legislative level.
While we made it through the relevant committee on the Senate level we could not get
it heard by the House committee chair. SSOs and affiliates across the country have had
great difficulty getting such legislation or exemptions from the SAFE Act and HUD
even overturned some of the exemptions. Through national advocacy efforts HUD has
recently become more amendable to not overturning Habitat exemptions until the final
rules have been promulgated. As a result we are now considering the best steps to take
on behalf of Hawaii’s affiliates.

In addition to advocacy on the SAFE Act Hawaii

Habitat was also active in support of national
advocacy for a National Housing Trust Fund to
support the construction of low income rental
and self help homeownership. On the national
level we testified on behalf of the Rental
Housing Trust Fund and other bills related to
homelessness and affordable housing.
 Other Areas of Growth

Disaster Preparedness

Hawaii Habitat continues to expand its role as a provider of disaster preparedness

services for itself and the affiliates.

Hawaii Habitat is on its way to solidifying a disaster preparedness action plan for its
own office which can be adapted for affiliate’s needs.

Hawaii Habitat is looking into submitting an application through HFHI for a

“Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness” grant.

Strategic Planning

Together with Mary Ellen Taylor of HFHI, the Hawaii Habitat Board of Directors and
the affiliate, in 2010 Hawaii Habitat for Humanity finalized a strategic plan which was
developed in 2009 with JoAnn Farnsworth. The plan will capitalize on the momentum,
resources and increased communication that came about in 2010, as well as help Hawaii
Habitat to add new systems of communication and develop new resources in 2011. The
strategic plan has already begun to be put in place.

Public Relations

In late 2010, Hawaii Habitat put together a panel

of Habitat staff, homeowners and volunteers to
participate in Olelo Community Medias Giving
Aloha program. The 30 minute panel discussion
will be turned into a video which will be aired on
Olelo and which can be used by Habitat for
Kathi Hasegawa (L), homeowner Kimo Opiana,
promotion and volunteer recruitment. Maile Alau and Chan Rowe prepare to record a
panel discussion with Olelo Community Media
National Service

Due to the success of our VISTA members in 2009, Hawaii Habitat was approved as a 2nd
year host site for the Americorps VISTA program. In fall in this year, we welcomed to our
team Laura Fay, Affiliate and Community Relations/Fundraising Associate, and Mike
Day, Green Building Associate.

This past year Mandy Jansen, Hawaii Habitat Operations Manager, was selected to be
part of the Habitat National Service Host Site Council, a team of Americorps Host Site
Managers from around the country who report directly to Peter Rumsey, Director of
National Service with Habitat for Humanity International, on program improvements,
suggestions and ideas, and communications regarding National Service.

Volunteers gather at the site of the Kahe’e build in Hilo.

Grant in Aid and OHA loans helped fund the home.
 “Discussions about low-income homeownership can be
extremely complex, or they can be as simple as imagining a
family either continuing to live in a cycle of poverty or having
the opportunity to break free, make changes and discover a world
of hope and promise.”
Johnathan Reckford, CEO
Habitat for Humanity International