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Homes for Hope

Announcing the Completion of Charlottesville’s 1st Homes for Hope Project: In April 2020, our Home for Hope sold and settled! Congratulations to our new homeowner! We are thrilled to see this important and collaborative project come to fruition.

From the combined efforts, talent, and hard work of 36 of our trade partners and the entire Southern Development Team, we were able to donate a total of $201,623 to Homes for Hope and Hope International.  This will help 10,409 families per year to fight global poverty and provide future sustainability!  Thank you to our trade partners for generous contributions, our community, our new homeowner and realtor, and our team for helping us make this possible.

In 2019, Southern Development Homes joined the effort to fight global poverty by partnering with Homes for Hope and Hope International, national nonprofit organizations that works with builders and their trade partners to raise funds that assist aspiring entrepreneurs living in developing countries start their own businesses through small-enterprise loans. This allows home builders and their trade partners to do what they do every day- build quality homes and work together to raise funds as part of a broader effort to alleviate poverty in 16 countries around the world. In April 2020, the Hope Home sold bringing the first Homes for Hope project for Southern Development Homes and Charlottesville to completion.

“We are honored to be working with Homes for Hope in their mission to fight global poverty,” says Frank Ballif, President of Southern Development Homes. “The sale of this one home will have immeasurable impact in the lives of so many people around the world.”

The sale of Charlottesville’s local Home for Hope house is located in Payne’s Mill, one of Southern Development Homes’ Charlottesville neighborhoods in the downtown area.

WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE HOMES FOR HOPE PROJECT?

BUILDING LOCALLY

To accomplish our mission of fighting global poverty, we first partner with builders and their trade partners here in the US and Canada to build Homes for Hope.

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FIGHTING POVERTY GLOBALLY

Through building Homes for Hope, we fight global poverty by funding and raising awareness for micro-enterprise development programs like HOPE International.

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THE IMPACT

Watch some of the stories about clients around the world who have been impacted by the work of HOPE International.

Sixbert’s story: From isolation to community
Peter’s story: Overcoming disability
Eckness’ story: “I realized that there was still a future—a way.”
Homes for Hope Luncheon

Participating Vendors & Trade Partners

  • Better Living Building Supply (Major Donor)
  • Prime Drywall & Paint LLC (Major Donor)
  • Buhl Electric Inc. (Major Donor)
  • Foley Plumbing (Major Donor)
  • James Hardie
  • Roudabush Gale & Assoc Inc
  • Goodman Excavating LLC
  • Dick’s Clearing & Landscaping LLC
  • Royal Foundations Inc
  • K & K Foundation Sealing
  • J C Chavez Construction
  • Atlantic Union Bank
  • RoofTop Services LLC
  • Cornerstone Home Improvement Inc
  • East Coast Insulators Inc
  • Turtle Construction Inc.
  • Fireside Hearth & Home
  • American Residential Services
  • Ferguson Enterprise
  • Moen
  • Progress Lighting
  • Prolink LLC
  • Mid Continent Cabinetry
  • Greg Slater, Nest Realty
  • Towne First Mortgage
  • The L & L Company
  • Overhead Door of Charlottesville
  • J & J Trim Contractors LLC
  • Schlage
  • European Stone Concepts
  • GE Appliances
  • Think Little Home Energy LLC
  • Carlisle Home Inspection Services Inc
  • Sir Speedy Printing
  • Legacy Consulting Associates LLC
  • Woods Rogers PLC
  • Jordan’s Landscaping Company LLC