FROM THE CEO

Impact is a big word for us in our work. It’s the “widget” we produce and distribute into the community. It is also our hope that it is a “widget” you want to “purchase” by way of investing in us, our mission, and our vision.

This 2023 Impact Report is a compilation of generational change, our strategy to achieve this, and data/info that would hopefully inform your decision to invest.

You will see that we have hit a milestone this year by completing our 700th home. This year we also saw the graduation of our 331st man from our Workforce Development program, and celebrated our 25th anniversary!!

Our vision is to continue this effort across the state of South Carolina— witnessed by the 181 affordable homes we currently have in the construction pipeline. Also, the expansion of our Men’s Workforce Development program will be achieved this year through the completion of our Gideon’s House (residential home for the men in our program) annex, enabling us to increase program capacity by 50%!

Caring for our housing clients will also see an acceleration of excellence as we expand bringing housing and property management services in-house to have trained and caring professionals doing this work in a way that shows extreme value to each household.

And connecting our men to economic mobility via their job training and financial education, making them marketable in the workforce remains a top priority! Offering connections to economic mobility for housing clients who seek the resources we can often connect them to, also remains a top priority!

Thank you for taking the time to review this publication! We are so very grateful to you for believing in us enough to support and encourage us.

Don Oglesby President / CEO