Board & Committees
Yellow Springs Home, Inc. is a membership organization. Once a year the general membership meets and elects trustees to the board. Some of these nominations are made by the board and some by the membership. The board has up to 12 members, one-third of whom are income qualified to own a Home, Inc. home. There is always at least one homeowner representative on the board. To see our Board meetings calendar scroll to the bottom of the page.
Board of DirectorsJackie Anderson
Chris Bongorno, President Anthony Fife Angie Hsu Tom Logsdon Malte Von Matthiessen Kevin McGruder, Treasurer Steve McQueen Jackie Radebaugh Alex Scott David Seitz, Vice President Committees & Groups
Executive Committee Fundraising Committee Governance Committee Publications Committee Project Advisory & Asset Committee Management Group Finance Committee Membership Committee Stewardship Advisory Group Scroll below for a committee and board meetings calendar See below for our latest financial records:
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A Message from our Board Chair
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As Yellow Springs Home, Inc. leans toward a quarter century in the business of creating permanently affordable housing, our mandate is more important than ever. In a time of global pandemic, the definition of “home” has evolved to include critical new functions like quarantine, social distancing, homeschool, and remote work. More than ever, home is our lifeline and our core belief that everyone has the right to housing stability is paramount. We believe we are all walking each other home.
More people now live in Home, Inc. homes than ever before. 2019 saw the completion and lease-up of our first multifamily rental housing project: Forest Village Homes - the first in the Village in decades. As a result, six new households can now call Yellow Springs “home.” The Glen Cottages Pocket Neighborhood was fully funded in 2019, thanks in part to a successful capital campaign that received contributions from 39 community partners. Construction on this new, 12-unit development is now underway and will be our largest project yet. The need is clear and the demand for quality, affordable housing is strong, with our rental interest list growing to more than 200 households in 2019. At the same time, our client programs continue to grow, serving 125 households in 2019 through homebuyer and financial coaching, foreclosure prevention, post-purchase support, low-interest refinance and mortgage packaging, rental intakes, and more.
Your involvement and support as members, funding partners, donors, clients, volunteers, and stakeholders is what makes these achievements possible. In short, you - the community - are the backbone of our community land trust.
When Emily Dickinson contemplated possibility, she employed the metaphor of a house:
I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Picture, as I know you’ve done before, your ideal house. It’s easy enough to plan the basic layout and dimensions; it isn’t difficult to envision the myriad details that make the structure comfortable and perfect. But, without you in residence, it’s only a building, however fine. Dickinson reminds us that a house becomes a home when we fill it with our lives, our good works, and the community in which we live together.
Thank you for your ongoing support,
Christopher Bongorno, Board Chair
Emily Seibel, Executive Director
More people now live in Home, Inc. homes than ever before. 2019 saw the completion and lease-up of our first multifamily rental housing project: Forest Village Homes - the first in the Village in decades. As a result, six new households can now call Yellow Springs “home.” The Glen Cottages Pocket Neighborhood was fully funded in 2019, thanks in part to a successful capital campaign that received contributions from 39 community partners. Construction on this new, 12-unit development is now underway and will be our largest project yet. The need is clear and the demand for quality, affordable housing is strong, with our rental interest list growing to more than 200 households in 2019. At the same time, our client programs continue to grow, serving 125 households in 2019 through homebuyer and financial coaching, foreclosure prevention, post-purchase support, low-interest refinance and mortgage packaging, rental intakes, and more.
Your involvement and support as members, funding partners, donors, clients, volunteers, and stakeholders is what makes these achievements possible. In short, you - the community - are the backbone of our community land trust.
When Emily Dickinson contemplated possibility, she employed the metaphor of a house:
I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Picture, as I know you’ve done before, your ideal house. It’s easy enough to plan the basic layout and dimensions; it isn’t difficult to envision the myriad details that make the structure comfortable and perfect. But, without you in residence, it’s only a building, however fine. Dickinson reminds us that a house becomes a home when we fill it with our lives, our good works, and the community in which we live together.
Thank you for your ongoing support,
Christopher Bongorno, Board Chair
Emily Seibel, Executive Director
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Yellow Springs Home, Inc. PO Box 503 . Yellow Springs, OH 45387 . 937.767.2790 |