CINCINNATI – The Ursu­line Sis­ters of Cincin­nati are cel­e­brat­ing their 100^th anniver­sary this year. To mark this mile­stone, the sis­ters chose to help a deserv­ing fam­ily real­ize their dream of home own­er­ship by build­ing a home in part­ner­ship with Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity (www.cincinnatihabitat.org). The ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mony for the Ursu­line “Jubilee House” will be at 2:00 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Sep. 18 at 2821 Pre­ston Street in Wal­nut Hills. The com­mu­nity and mem­bers of the news media are wel­comed to attend.

The St. Ursula Con­vent and Acad­emy opened in Cincin­nati in 1910, and the sis­ters began teach­ing in sev­eral parochial schools. Since then, they have been exam­ples of ser­vice through edu­ca­tion, as well as other efforts to help improve the com­mu­nity. The Ursu­line Sis­ters, as well as St. Ursula Acad­emy stu­dents and alumni, vol­un­teered their efforts on the build. Stu­dents too young to swing a ham­mer helped with land­scap­ing, pro­vid­ing lunches, and fundrais­ing. Over the course of the build, more than 400 ded­i­cated vol­un­teers turned out to com­plete the home.

“We are so hon­ored that that the Ursu­line sis­ters chose to mark their cen­ten­nial anniver­sary by part­ner­ing with Cincin­nati Habi­tat and the Camp­bell fam­ily. For the past 100 years, the sis­ters have been an inte­gral part of the ser­vice com­mu­nity here in Cincin­nati,” said Ed Lee, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Cincin­nati Habi­tat. “They have taught this com­mu­nity so many valu­able lessons through edu­ca­tion and giv­ing to those in need. They are mod­els of ser­vice we all should aspire to. I have no doubt they will carry out their mis­sion for another 100 years and beyond.”

The home will belong to sin­gle mother Chris­tine Camp­bell and her three chil­dren Ephinity,16, Eyzi­raha, 12, and Ezy­on­tae, 10. Ephin­ity is a10^th grader at With­row High School and loves read­ing and writ­ing. Eyzi­raha and Ezy­on­tae both attend Hays Ele­men­tary. Eyzi­raha plays bas­ket­ball and is involved in cheer­lead­ing. Ezy­on­tae plays bas­ket­ball and foot­ball. They both attend the Boys and Girls Clubs.

“Buy­ing my own home means a sta­ble foun­da­tion for me and my kids, and it is just so excit­ing to know that I helped build some­thing that will be mine for the first time, where every­thing is brand new,” said Camp­bell. “I believe this is my time to be blessed with build­ing and buy­ing my own home.”

To qual­ify for their Habi­tat home, the Camp­bell fam­ily had to meet a vari­ety of cri­te­ria, and work beside vol­un­teers from St. Ursula Con­vent and Acad­emy, invest­ing 500 hours of sweat equity into the con­struc­tion of their home. Cincin­nati Habi­tat will sell the home to the fam­ily with a 0%, 20-year, interest-free mort­gage payable to Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity.

For more infor­ma­tion on Cincin­nati Habi­tat or to vol­un­teer, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org, fol­low us on twit­ter http://twitter.com/CincyHabitat, our like us on Face­book http://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiHabitat.

About Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity

Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity is a non-profit Chris­t­ian hous­ing min­istry that seeks to elim­i­nate sub­stan­dard hous­ing by build­ing and ren­o­vat­ing sim­ple, decent, afford­able homes to sell to low-income fam­i­lies in need. Cincin­nati Habi­tat works in equal part­ner­ship with fam­i­lies, vol­un­teers, and donors build­ing a sense of com­mu­nity as well as afford­able hous­ing. Our part­ners include cor­po­ra­tions, churches, foun­da­tions, orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­ual donors who donate money, labor, and mate­ri­als to fund and build our homes. Cincin­nati Habi­tat has built over 170 homes in neigh­bor­hoods that include Avon­dale, Clifton, Colum­bia Tus­cu­lum, Evanston, Har­ri­son, Hyde Park, Lin­coln Heights, Lock­land, Madis­onville, Mt. Auburn, Mt. Wash­ing­ton, North Fair­mount, North­side, Oak­ley, Over-the-Rhine, Price Hill, South Cum­minsville, South Fair­mount, Wal­nut Hills, West­wood and Win­ton Place, among oth­ers.  For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org.

CINCINNATI — Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity’s Young Pro­fes­sion­als (CHYP) Group is invit­ing Greater Cincin­nati res­i­dents of all ages to lace up their run­ning shoes once again to help Cincin­nati Habi­tat build homes for fam­i­lies in need through­out Cincin­nati.  CHYP will hold their sec­ond annual Raise the Roof 5K Run and Walk on Sat­ur­day, Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. The 5K will take place at the beau­ti­ful and scenic Sharon Woods Park in Sharonville, with a post-race party to fol­low spon­sored by Find­lay Mar­ket, Mt. Carmel Brew­ery, and Queen City Inflat­a­bles. All pro­ceeds ben­e­fit Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity’s mis­sion to elim­i­nate poverty hous­ing in the Cincin­nati com­mu­nity and will help fund the 2010 CHYP spon­sored house.

“We had a lot of fun at last year’s event and we hope to exceed our expec­ta­tions once again.  We are com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing our local com­mu­nity and we invite Cincin­nati to come out and sup­port our local home­build­ing efforts as well as the local busi­nesses that are gen­er­ously donat­ing goods or ser­vices to help make this race a suc­cess,” said Cincin­nati Habi­tat Devel­op­ment Direc­tor, Marissa Woodly.

Race-Day reg­is­tra­tion and num­ber pickup will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Sharon Woods Pavil­ion Grove Pic­nic Shel­ter, across from the Sharon Cen­tre. The race will begin at 10 a.m. The top three win­ners over­all will win the cov­eted “Golden Ham­mer,” Sil­ver Screw­driver,” and “Bronze Bolt Cut­ters.”  The post-race awards cer­e­mony and after party, which includes refresh­ments, a DJ, prizes and raf­fles will begin imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the race.

To reg­is­ter, visit www.raisetheroof5k.com or mail in an entry form (http://www.runningtime.net/Races/Habitat/2010/flier.pdf) to Greg McCormick at 10119 Crosier Lane, Cincin­nati, OH 45242. Mailed entries must be post­marked by Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2010. Online reg­is­tra­tion dead­line is Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2010.  The entry fee is $20 to par­tic­i­pate in the race only, or $30 for the race and the post-race party, which includes food and drink tick­ets. All entries include a free t-shirt. The entry fee on race day will be $25 for the race and $35 for the race and the post-race party.  T-shirts for race-day reg­is­tra­tions will be avail­able while sup­plies last.

For more infor­ma­tion, call Greg McCormick at 513–652-6225, visit www.raisetheroof5k.com, or go to Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity’s web­site at www.cincinnatihabitat.org.

About Cincin­nati Habi­tat Young Pro­fes­sion­als
In 2005, the Cincin­nati Habi­tat Young Pro­fes­sion­als (CHYP) became the first Habi­tat YP group in the nation. A group made up exclu­sively of vol­un­teers, the focus of CHYP is to raise money and aware­ness for Habi­tat for Human­ity through cor­po­rate part­ner­ship, social net­work­ing, and event fundraising.

About Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity

Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity is a non-profit Chris­t­ian hous­ing min­istry that seeks to elim­i­nate sub­stan­dard hous­ing by build­ing and ren­o­vat­ing sim­ple, decent, afford­able homes to sell to low-income fam­i­lies in need. Cincin­nati Habi­tat works in equal part­ner­ship with fam­i­lies, vol­un­teers and donors build­ing a sense of com­mu­nity as well as afford­able hous­ing. Our part­ners include cor­po­ra­tions, churches, foun­da­tions, orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­ual donors who donate money, labor and mate­ri­als to fund and build our homes. Cincin­nati Habi­tat has built over 170 homes in neigh­bor­hoods that include Avon­dale, Clifton, Colum­bia Tus­cu­lum, Evanston, Har­ri­son, Hyde Park, Lin­coln Heights, Lock­land, Madis­onville, Mt. Auburn, Mt. Wash­ing­ton, North Fair­mount, North­side, Oak­ley, Over-the-Rhine, Price Hill, South Cum­minsville, South Fair­mount, Wal­nut Hills, West­wood and Win­ton Place, among oth­ers.  For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org.

CINCINNATI— Con­tin­gent Net­work Ser­vices (www.contingent.com), a global IT ser­vices com­pany spe­cial­iz­ing in man­aged, secure Wide Area Net­works (WAN), inte­gra­tion, logis­tics and main­te­nance for large enter­prises, announces that it has signed Advanced Tech­nol­ogy Con­sult­ing (ATC) to act as its “insourced” sales team for voice services.

Under the terms of the agree­ment, ATC will engage Contingent’s exist­ing client base to mar­ket and sell Contingent’s Voice­WorX line of voice ser­vices (VoIP, TDM, con­fer­enc­ing, etc). ATC will call on exist­ing enter­prise, chan­nel accounts, and prospects of Con­tin­gent, cou­pling their vast insight and exper­tise in sell­ing voice solu­tions with Contingent’s inno­v­a­tive approach to ser­vice con­sol­i­da­tion. ATC is a national provider in com­pre­hen­sive tele­com ser­vices with com­bined expe­ri­ence of more than 75 years.

“This approach will absolutely com­ple­ment our exist­ing sales efforts and go a long way to help our exist­ing clients take more com­plete advan­tage of Contingent’s unique ser­vice deliv­ery model,” said Mark Stuhlreyer, Contingent’s Man­ag­ing Part­ner. “We are already in these accounts, and ATC’s voice focus is exactly what we need to build our presence.”

Broad­en­ing its part­ner­ship with ATC now is a strate­gic step for Con­tin­gent that will help strengthen its chan­nel pro­gram and deepen its pen­e­tra­tion in the voice seg­ment. ATC spe­cial­izes in select­ing, procur­ing, and man­ag­ing voice ser­vices.  By lever­ag­ing their indus­try exper­tise and strate­gic part­ner­ships, ATC will be able to help archi­tect a Voice­WorX branded solu­tion that will help Contingent’s cus­tomers get the most out of their tele­com investment.

Recently, Con­tin­gent expanded the capa­bil­i­ties of its Voice­WorX ser­vice offer­ing, and has cou­pled it with its fast grow­ing Ever­WorX Man­aged WAN Ser­vices to spark inter­est. Ulti­mately, the deal will drive cost sav­ings, improved qual­ity, and over­all con­ve­nience to clients.

“After work­ing with Con­tin­gent for the past two years, we’re excited to enter into this agree­ment based on sim­i­lar philoso­phies in cus­tomer ser­vice,” said David Good­win, Prin­ci­pal and Co-Founder of ATC.  “We feel that our expe­ri­ence in the voice space will com­ple­ment the good things that Con­tin­gent is already doing with their Ever­Worx prod­uct.” Nick Enger, Man­ager of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for ATC, added, “This agree­ment will allow Con­tin­gent to fur­ther reduce their cus­tomers’ tele­com costs and con­sol­i­date invoices while main­tain­ing a proven source for excep­tional cus­tomer sup­port. Con­tin­gent cus­tomers should be ecsta­tic about receiv­ing all of these ser­vices under one umbrella.”

About Con­tin­gent Net­work Services

Founded in 1984 and based in Cincin­nati, Ohio, Con­tin­gent Net­work Ser­vices (www.contingent.com) spe­cial­izes in a wide array of infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy ser­vices focused pri­mar­ily on design, deploy­ment, and man­age­ment of WAN and LAN infra­struc­ture. Con­tin­gent man­ages the com­plex tasks required to build and sup­port IT and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions infra­struc­ture, such as routers, switches, servers, PCs, wire­less devices, print­ers, broad­band, cabling and many other com­po­nents found in a multi-site enter­prise net­work. In more than 25 years of oper­a­tion, its offer­ings and pack­ages have changed with the speed of tech­nol­ogy. But focus on the cus­tomer remains the same; and Con­tin­gent backs it up with a Life­time Work­man­ship War­ranty.

About ATC (Advanced Tech­nol­ogy Consulting)

ATC (www.4atc.com), with offices in Cincin­nati, OH and Hart­ford, CT, is an inde­pen­dent tele­com agency and con­sult­ing firm that removes the com­plex­i­ties of research­ing, com­par­ing, procur­ing, imple­ment­ing and man­ag­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices for busi­nesses. By uti­liz­ing an exten­sive port­fo­lio of over 50 tele­com ser­vice providers, ATC works as a neu­tral agent and/or con­sul­tant to pair clients with solu­tions that improve effi­ciency and pro­duc­tiv­ity, and sig­nif­i­cantly reduce costs. ATC spe­cial­izes in Local, Long Dis­tance, Inter­net, Data, Audio, Video and Web Con­fer­enc­ing, Cellular/Wireless, Metro Eth­er­net, Dark Fiber and a full array of VoIP services.

CINCINNATI – Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity (www.cincinnatihabitat.org) is set to begin con­struc­tion on a new home. For the sec­ond year in a row, Delta Air­lines and hun­dreds of their ded­i­cated employ­ees will fund and build a home in the Cincin­nati com­mu­nity. Part of a seven-city part­ner­ship, Delta will con­struct seven homes through­out the coun­try dur­ing the fall of 2010. Delta Air Lines and their crew of vol­un­teers will be lead­ing and spon­sor­ing this build, which will be com­pleted in just 6 weeks. Delta vol­un­teers were able to pre-frame the house a few weeks ago at Delta’s cargo ware­house at CVG.

The kick-off cer­e­mony will be at 10:00 a.m. on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 7 at 1185 Home­side Ave. Col­lege Hill. Barry K. Matthews from Delta and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Cincin­nati Habi­tat Ed Lee will speak. The com­mu­nity and mem­bers of the news media are wel­comed to attend.

The home will belong to Senga (Alex) Big­ure, his wife, Saada Alfani, and their four chil­dren, Grace, 16, Deane, 12, Ken­neth, 9 and their baby girl, Glo­ria, just born on July 3^rd. Senga and Saada are from Burundi.  Senga came to the United States in 2005 due to the civil war in Berundi. Saada fol­lowed with Deane and Ken­neth in 2009. Their old­est daugh­ter, Grace, is in board­ing school in Tan­za­nia wait­ing for immi­gra­tion to approve her depar­ture so that she can rejoin her fam­ily. This fam­ily of six cur­rently lives in a two-bedroom apart­ment with absolutely no stor­age space, much less the room needed for their grow­ing family.

“This is going to change our lives,” said Senga. “We have always believed that one day God would help our fam­ily, and now through Habi­tat, God has pro­vided for us. We will have so much more space, and our chil­dren will finally have a place to play. My fam­ily loves each other and we love to be with peo­ple and neigh­bors and to sim­ply live a peace­ful life. We are plan­ning to be a part of the Habi­tat fam­ily for all of our lives so that we can help other fam­i­lies like we were helped by Habitat.”

“This fam­ily has known much hard­ship, more than most Amer­i­cans can imag­ine. They have endured civil war and many years of sep­a­ra­tion,” said Lee, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Cincin­nati Habi­tat. “Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of Delta and their many ded­i­cated vol­un­teers, this fam­ily can finally be together, under one roof in a home of their own. Senga and Saada’s chil­dren will now grow up in a sta­ble home. They have a bright future ahead of them.”

To qual­ify for their Habi­tat homes, the fam­ily had to meet a vari­ety of cri­te­ria, includ­ing hous­ing need, abil­ity to pay a mort­gage and will­ing­ness to part­ner with Cincin­nati Habi­tat. The fam­ily will work beside vol­un­teers from Delta Air­lines, invest­ing at least 500 hours of sweat equity into the con­struc­tion of their homes. Cincin­nati Habi­tat will sell the home to the fam­ily with a 0%, 20-year, interest-free mort­gage held by Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity.

For more infor­ma­tion on Cincin­nati Habi­tat or to vol­un­teer, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org, fol­low us on twit­ter http://twitter.com/CincyHabitat, our like us on Face­book http://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiHabitat.

About Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity

Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity is a non-profit Chris­t­ian hous­ing min­istry that seeks to elim­i­nate sub­stan­dard hous­ing by build­ing and ren­o­vat­ing sim­ple, decent, afford­able homes to sell to low-income fam­i­lies in need. Cincin­nati Habi­tat works in equal part­ner­ship with fam­i­lies, vol­un­teers and donors build­ing a sense of com­mu­nity as well as afford­able hous­ing. Our part­ners include cor­po­ra­tions, churches, foun­da­tions, orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­ual donors who donate money, labor and mate­ri­als to fund and build our homes. Cincin­nati Habi­tat has built over 170 homes in neigh­bor­hoods that include Avon­dale, Clifton, Colum­bia Tus­cu­lum, Evanston, Har­ri­son, Hyde Park, Lin­coln Heights, Lock­land, Madis­onville, Mt. Auburn, Mt. Wash­ing­ton, North Fair­mount, North­side, Oak­ley, Over-the-Rhine, Price Hill, South Cum­minsville, South Fair­mount, Wal­nut Hills, West­wood and Win­ton Place, among oth­ers.  For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org.