Nine leading associate members of the Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield have made substantial commitments of support for the HBA of Greater Springfield’s advocacy efforts on behalf of builders in 2012. These companies stepped forward in year one of the HBA’s newly-launched advocacy support program: the Advocacy Leadership Team.
Their commitment underwrites a significant portion of the overall advocacy efforts of the HBA of Greater Springfield. In exchange for their generous support of advocacy on behalf of builders, these associate leaders receive exclusive direct marketing and networking opportunities with leading builder members of the HBA of Greater Springfield. Their first exclusive engagement of the program will be this week, when these associates will spend all day with more than 20 leading builder members of the HBA at Tuesday’s HBA of Missouri Legislative Day.
Learn more about the new 2012 program (including specifics of builder-access events and publications and more), by clicking here.
Associate Advocacy Partners for 2012 are (alphabetically):
Conco Companies
Herrman Lumber Company
Meek’s – The Builders’ Choice
Metro Appliances & More
Midwest Block & Brick
Southern Materials Company
Southern Supply Company
Taylor Marble
Tidwell Concrete
The HBA of Greater Springfield’s full 2012 Advocacy Leadership Team includes:
Builder Advocacy Partners: These are twenty of the most in-demand builder and/or remodeler members of the HBA of Greater Springfield. They are the builders associate most want to access. They care about the advocacy the HBA provides on their behalf and have committed to fully participate in each of the CBBT’s Advocacy Leadership Events (Legislative Day, Fast Pitch, Slow Pitch, and Shooting Tournament). Each Builder Advocacy Partner is also an annual contributor to the CBBT.
The HBA’s 2012 Builder Advocacy Partners are: Bailey Company (Matt Bailey, CGB, CGP); Built By Brett (Brett Godfrey, CGP); Cowherd Construction Co. (Trent Cowherd); Fahrlander Custom Homes (Jeff Fahrlander, CGP); First Venture (Bob Fitzgerald); Galin Homes (Galin Campbell); Gene Douglas Construction (Gene Douglas); Hawthorne Creek Homes (Regina Gutshall); Martin Building & Development (Mark Martin, CGP); McBride & Son Homes (Mark Potthast); MGM Properties (Terry McKee); Millstone Custom Homes (Sam Clifton, CGP); Monticello Homes & Development (Jason Bekebrede, CGP); Ramsey Building Company (Rick Ramsey, CGP); Rhoads Design & Construction (Adrian Rhoads, CGP); Sam Bradley Homes (Sam Bradley, GMB, CGR, CGP); Stenger Homes (Ed Alden); Sustainable Housing Solutions (Debbie Shantz Hart); Travis Miller Homes (Travis Miller, CGP); and WJ Johns Construction (Wanda Johns, CGB, CGP).
Associate Advocacy Champions: Associate Advocacy Champions demonstrate their full commitment to home builders’ highest priority by underwriting the advocacy efforts of the HBA. In exchange, they receive a variety of direct access networking and marketing opportunities (opportunities not available to other associates) to the HBA’s Builder Advocacy Partners and other key builder members. Associate Advocacy Champion Level of Investment is open to all HBA Associate members, but is limited to twenty champions per year.
The HBA’s 2012 Associate Advocacy Champions are: Conco Companies, Herrman Lumber Company, Meek’s – The Builders’ Choice, Midwest Block & Brick, Southern Materials Company, Southern Supply, and Tidwell Concrete.
Associate Sustaining Advocates: Associate Sustaining Advocates demonstrate their support of home builders’ highest priority by helping to underwrite the advocacy efforts of the HBA. In exchange, they receive recognition and certain direct access networking and marketing opportunities (opportunities not available to other associates) to the HBA’s Builder Advocacy Partners and other key builder members. Associate Sustaining Advocate Level of Investment is open to all Associate members.
The HBA’s 2012 Associate Sustaining Advocates are: Metro Appliances & More and Taylor Marble.
The HBA Advocacy Leadership Team program hatched from member feedback throughout 2011. Based on member input, HBA leadership came to understand that – while every HBA member wants / needs something different from their HBA membership – for most, the membership value proposition is quite simple. At the most basic level, builder members and associate members have different, but related primary needs from their membership: Builders need advocacy. Associates need builders. The 2012 HBA/CBBT Advocacy Leadership Team represents an attempt to meet both those needs in an unprecedented way: The program funds the advocacy that builders need, by providing the access that associates need (to download a flier summarizing the program, including the names of the twenty “Builder Advocacy Partners” for 2012, click here).