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New homeowner Robin Bradley works with tile contractor
Ronnie Accardo to set tile in her Habitat home in Baton
Rouge, LA, in Nov. 2004.
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In the
position, Daniels will work within the industry to raise awareness of the value
of partnering with TPFH and to raise money for the organization. TPFH will
announce a major fundraising campaign, to be chaired by Daniels, this spring.
Daniels
served as a member of the TPFH board of directors, representing the Ceramic
Tile Education Foundation, from the fall of 2003 to last year. TPFH is excited
to announce the addition of Scott Carothers, CTEF executive director, to its
board.
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Paul Wilson of the CTIOA demonstrates tile installation in
this Habitat home in Costa Mesa, CA,
in April 2004.
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“I’m
really pleased to continue working with what I believe is a great cause,”
Daniels said. “It makes good business sense for our industry to get behind TPFH
and support our communities through our resources.”
TPFH also
celebrated its fifth anniversary in late 2002. It will mark five years of
projects in June 2008 on the anniversary of the DIY Network Build in Charlotte,
NC, and the Jimmy Carter Work Projects in
LaGrange and Valdosta, GA.
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Fourteen-year-old volunteer Josh Bigelow, NATTCO President
Brian Turner and BAC Local 4 Member Scott
Wooldridge set tile together in this Habitat home in Indianapolis,
IN, in Oct. 2004.
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TPFH
pledged a total of $1,250,000 worth of materials and labor to Habitat
affiliates and projects over a five-year period. TPFH partners donated enough
to surpass that goal – and TPFH signed another five-year pledge in the same
amount beginning in early 2008.
The
organization is guided by representatives of the seven leading industry
organizations: Rick Church of the Ceramic Tile Distributors Association, Scott
Carothers of the Ceramic Tile Education Foundation, Gray LaFortune of the
Ceramic Tile Institute of America, Bart Bettiga of the National Tile
Contractors Association, Eric Astrachan of the Tile Council of North America,
Curt Rapp of TheTileDoctor.com, and Sheila Menzies of Tile Heritage Foundation.
