Session 7: 3.50-5pm
Room: LK308
How to get new housing built with individual & corporate foundation money
About this session: The goal of this group is to develop a proposal to donate funds to build new housing for the autistic & developmentally disabled community, that can be presented to individual and corporate foundations.
We will discuss: the need for new housing; the current situation of the lack of funding from government for new housing; the different categories of housing that could be funded--1) group homes; 2) individual homes for 1-3 clients in the "supported living" service model; 3) apartment buildings that could house many clients at different levels of DDS service; and 4) small villages that can house many clients, along with client services and with job opportunities to create income.
About Bob Ericson:
Bob is a financial planner in San Jose who has a son with autism & mental health issues. His late wife Laura was a commercial real estate agent for 10 years, and then a residential real estate agent for 10 years, so he was exposed to the real estate industry & how it works. He has known & worked with Kris McCann of BAHC, who has developed housing for clients of the DDS system.
"I have observed the lack of government support for housing and services for the quickly expanding autistic population. So I have concluded that the autistic community must make a case to the individual & corporate foundations that this is a problem that they can help solve. We need to outline the problem & identify a range of housing solutions that they can support. We need to work with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation & others to create this need as an additional category of philanthropic giving, along with the existing categories of 1) the elderly: 2) environmental; 3) the arts; 4) low income; and many others."
Links:
Website:
Heckman Financial: http://www.wealthcreator.com/
Email:
[email protected]
Room: LK308
How to get new housing built with individual & corporate foundation money
About this session: The goal of this group is to develop a proposal to donate funds to build new housing for the autistic & developmentally disabled community, that can be presented to individual and corporate foundations.
We will discuss: the need for new housing; the current situation of the lack of funding from government for new housing; the different categories of housing that could be funded--1) group homes; 2) individual homes for 1-3 clients in the "supported living" service model; 3) apartment buildings that could house many clients at different levels of DDS service; and 4) small villages that can house many clients, along with client services and with job opportunities to create income.
About Bob Ericson:
Bob is a financial planner in San Jose who has a son with autism & mental health issues. His late wife Laura was a commercial real estate agent for 10 years, and then a residential real estate agent for 10 years, so he was exposed to the real estate industry & how it works. He has known & worked with Kris McCann of BAHC, who has developed housing for clients of the DDS system.
"I have observed the lack of government support for housing and services for the quickly expanding autistic population. So I have concluded that the autistic community must make a case to the individual & corporate foundations that this is a problem that they can help solve. We need to outline the problem & identify a range of housing solutions that they can support. We need to work with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation & others to create this need as an additional category of philanthropic giving, along with the existing categories of 1) the elderly: 2) environmental; 3) the arts; 4) low income; and many others."
Links:
Website:
Heckman Financial: http://www.wealthcreator.com/
Email:
[email protected]