Spon­sors include the Madis­onville Coali­tion, Arm­strong Chapel, Church of the Redeemer, Regency Cen­ters, the George B. Riley Trust, Mariemont Com­mu­nity Church, and Gen­eral Electric

CINCINNATI – Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity (www.cincinnatihabitat.org) along with long­time vol­un­teer group, the Madis­onville Coali­tion, will ded­i­cate a home in Madis­onville this week­end. This is the fifth home the Madis­onville Coali­tion has built in part­ner­ship with Cincin­nati Habi­tat in the Madis­onville Com­mu­nity. This year’s coali­tion includes Arm­strong Chapel, Church of the Redeemer, Regency Cen­ters, and the George B. Riley Trust. Join­ing these spon­sors are the Mariemont Com­mu­nity Church and Gen­eral Elec­tric who both pro­vided vol­un­teers to the project.

The ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mony will be at 10 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 30 at 4538 Lucerne Ave. in Madis­onville. The com­mu­nity and mem­bers of the news media are wel­comed to attend the ded­i­ca­tion. Tony Haslinger of Regency Cen­ters will be the fea­tured speaker. This is the sev­enth Habi­tat for Human­ity project the Regency Cen­ters have been involved with in the Madis­onville community.

The new home­own­ers will be Jacque­line Chan­dler and her four chil­dren Jor­dan, 13, Jyeisha, 7, Jewel, 6, and Joce­lyn, 4. Chan­dler works at Brown Mackie Col­lege and she also vol­un­teers at the ReStore.

“This is truly a bless­ing. Own­ing our own home and hav­ing a place for my chil­dren to call home is a dream I have had for years,” said Chan­dler. “I came from a sin­gle par­ent home and my mother worked 2 or 3 jobs for us just to live in an apart­ment. I am very grate­ful for all that she did for me; how­ever, I wanted so much more for my chil­dren.  I have worked very hard to get to this point. Now, I can save more than half of the money I spent on a monthly basis just on the rent by itself. We are all sin­cerely look­ing for­ward to this. This is truly our dream home.”

“Thanks to our gen­er­ous group of spon­sors and vol­un­teers, Jacque­lyn and her chil­dren will now have a home of their own and much more space, which will be won­der­ful for this active young fam­ily,” said Marissa Woodly, Devel­op­ment Direc­tor, Cincin­nati Habi­tat. “We are grate­ful to our spon­sors and ded­i­cated vol­un­teers on this build. Their com­mit­ment has made home own­er­ship a real­ity for this family.”

To qual­ify for their Habi­tat home, the Chan­dler 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 worked beside vol­un­teers from the Madis­onville Coali­tion, Mariemont Com­mu­nity Church, and GE, 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 held by Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity.

For more infor­ma­tion on Cincin­nati Habi­tat or to vol­un­teer, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org, fol­low us on Twit­ter at http://twitter.com/CincyHabitat, or like us on Face­book at 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 210 homes in neigh­bor­hoods that include Avon­dale, Clifton, Colum­bia Tus­cu­lum, Evanston, Har­ri­son, Hyde Park, Lin­coln Heights, Lock­land, Madis­onville, Mill­creek Val­ley, 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.

Nearly 200 Delta vol­un­teers turn out to com­plete con­struc­tion on Habi­tat home in just six weeks

CINCINNATI – For the sec­ond year in a row, Delta Air­lines will ded­i­cate a Habi­tat for Human­ity (www.cincinnatihabitat.org) home in the Cincin­nati com­mu­nity. Delta Air­lines and their crew of nearly 200 ded­i­cated vol­un­teers turned out to com­plete this build in just 6 weeks—the fastest Habi­tat for Human­ity build this year. In addi­tion to com­plet­ing the entire build, Delta vol­un­teers were also able to plant a flower and veg­etable gar­den for the part­ner fam­ily. Part of a seven-city part­ner­ship, Delta will con­struct seven homes through­out the coun­try dur­ing the fall of 2010.

The ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mony will be at 1 p.m. on Fri­day, Octo­ber 22 at 1185 Home­side Ave. in Col­lege Hill. There will be a bar­be­cue through­out the day with food donated from sev­eral local ven­dors. Barry K. Matthews from Delta and Ed Lee, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Cincin­nati Habi­tat, will speak. This is one of three Cincin­nati Habi­tat projects on Home­side Ave., includ­ing a rehab project next door to this home. The pub­lic is invited to tour the rehab project, as well as this home ded­i­cated by Delta. 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, who fol­lowed through on their promise, this fam­ily can finally be together, under one roof in a home of their own. Delta is a model spon­sor as well as the fastest build­ing group we’ve had.”

To qual­ify for their Habi­tat home, 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 worked beside vol­un­teers from Delta Air­lines, 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 held by Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Humanity.

For more infor­ma­tion on Cincin­nati Habi­tat or to vol­un­teer, visit www.cincinnatihabitat.org, fol­low us on twit­ter at http://twitter.com/CincyHabitat, or like us on Face­book at 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—Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L. (www.ficlaw.com) announces its affil­i­a­tion with the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Primerus Law Firms.  Primerus is an inter­na­tional alliance of top-rated, inde­pen­dent, small and mid-sized law firms in the U.S., Europe, and Puerto Rico.  Primerus is struc­tured into three insti­tutes.  Faruki Ire­land & Cox holds the exclu­sive Busi­ness Law Insti­tute license for Cincin­nati and Day­ton — that means it is the only law firm rec­om­mended in those cities for busi­ness litigation.

All Primerus law firms have been rig­or­ously screened, and are audited annu­ally for their com­mit­ment to integrity, excel­lent work prod­uct, civil­ity, rea­son­able fees, con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion, and com­mu­nity ser­vices.  Mem­bers must also have the high­est rat­ing (AV), from Martindale-Hubbell, the lead­ing peer review rat­ing source that lawyers use to find other lawyers.

As one of the world’s most respected and rapidly grow­ing legal alliances, Primerus cur­rently has over 150 mem­ber law firms in nearly 110 cities, 43 states in the U.S., and in sev­eral other coun­tries, includ­ing Canada, China, Eng­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, Hun­gary, Mex­ico, and Switzer­land.  The Primerus net­work allows clients to find top-rated, expe­ri­enced lawyers from small and mid-sized inde­pen­dent law firms.

“We are proud to be a part of the Primerus alliance,” said Char­lie Faruki, co-founder of Faruki Ire­land & Cox.  “This affil­i­a­tion expands our resources and net­work­ing capa­bil­i­ties, while allow­ing us to main­tain the per­sonal con­nec­tions that we enjoy with our clients. We look for­ward to our rela­tion­ship with Primerus, as it is one of the most respected legal alliances in the world.”

For more infor­ma­tion about Primerus, visit http://www.primerus.com/.

To learn more about Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L., con­tact John Kendall at (937) 227‑3723, or visit www.ficlaw.com.

About Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L.

Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L. (www.ficlaw.com) is a 35-attorney firm that han­dles com­plex busi­ness dis­putes nation­ally, includ­ing intel­lec­tual prop­erty, class actions, competition-based lit­i­ga­tion, employ­ment, antitrust, pri­vacy and com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion and arbitration.

Fed­eral Neigh­bor­hood Sta­bi­liza­tion Pro­gram to fund home

CINCINNATI – Cincin­nati Habi­tat for Human­ity (www.cincinnatihabitat.org) will begin con­struc­tion on another home in Col­erain Town­ship.  Hamil­ton County and Col­erain Town­ship will pro­vide the funds to rehab the home through an allo­ca­tion of fed­eral funds from the Depart­ment of Hous­ing and Urban Development’s Neigh­bor­hood Sta­bi­liza­tion Pro­gram (NSP).  The rehab kick-off cer­e­mony will begin at 1 p.m. on Tues­day, Oct. 12, at 11321 Pip­pin Lane. The com­mu­nity and mem­bers of the news media are wel­comed to attend.

“This part­ner­ship has enabled us to do so much for this com­mu­nity. This is the third rehab project Cincin­nati Habi­tat will work on this year in part­ner­ship with Hamil­ton County and Col­erain Town­ship with funds from the NSP,” said Ed Lee, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Cincin­nati Habi­tat. “Not only will this fam­ily finally have their own home, but it will be another step towards the revi­tal­iza­tion of this community.”

Col­erain Town­ship has been sig­nif­i­cantly affected by the fore­clo­sure issue, with a fore­clo­sure rate sec­ond only to the City of Cincin­nati among Hamil­ton County Com­mu­ni­ties. Col­erain Town­ship intends to uti­lize the NSP funds to reme­di­ate these vacant, fore­closed prop­er­ties, thereby pro­mot­ing prop­erty val­ues and sta­bil­ity in these affected neigh­bor­hoods.  Col­erain is a sub-recipient of the NSP funds allo­cated to Hamil­ton County.

Heather Har­low, Fis­cal Offi­cer for Col­erain Town­ship said, “I’m pleased the Town­ship and Habi­tat for Human­ity have part­nered on this project. Through our part­ner­ship we are able to lever­age NSP funds for the bet­ter­ment of the entire neighborhood.”

The home will belong to Natausha Silas and her chil­dren, Kayla, 9, and Quincy, 6. “A 0%, interest-free loan from Cincin­nati Habi­tat will give me the oppor­tu­nity to build a sta­ble life for my chil­dren and allow me to actu­ally build equity in my home over the years,” said Silas. “I have always dreamed of own­ing my own home and with my income, it would not be pos­si­ble for me to qual­ify for a mort­gage with­out a pro­gram like Habi­tat for Humanity.”

To qual­ify for their Habi­tat home, the Silas fam­ily had to meet a vari­ety of cri­te­ria, includ­ing hous­ing need, abil­ity to pay a mort­gage, and will­ing­ness to part­ner with Cincin­nati Habi­tat. The part­ner fam­ily will work beside Hamil­ton County and Col­erain Town­ship, 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.

The Neigh­bor­hood Sta­bi­liza­tion Pro­gram (NSP) was estab­lished for the pur­pose of sta­bi­liz­ing com­mu­ni­ties that have suf­fered from fore­clo­sures and aban­don­ment. Through the pur­chase and rede­vel­op­ment of fore­closed and aban­doned homes and res­i­den­tial prop­er­ties, the goal of the pro­gram is being real­ized. NSP1, a term that ref­er­ences the NSP funds autho­rized under Divi­sion B, Title III of the Hous­ing and Eco­nomic Recov­ery Act (HERA) of 2008, pro­vides grants to all states and selected local gov­ern­ments on a for­mula basis. NSP2, a term that ref­er­ences the NSP funds autho­rized under the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act (the Recov­ery Act) of 2009, pro­vides grants to states, local gov­ern­ments, non­prof­its, and a con­sor­tium of non­profit enti­ties on a com­pet­i­tive basis.

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