Dallas BA Rebuilding Campaign Wins Association Excellence Award
The Dallas BA has been recognized for its outstanding Rebuilding Together campaign with an Award of Excellence for Best Revenue Effort – Non Parade, Tour or Show from the Executive Officers Council (EOC) of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
“I’m really proud of the Dallas BA staff for working through the difficulties of displacement from the office,” said President Andrew Pieper of Hillwood Communities. “They didn’t miss a beat even after losing quite a bit of critical equipment in the 2021 winter storm. Their diligent work earned them this prestigious award and inspired incredible generosity that has contributed to an amazing new home for our industry.
The Rebuilding Together campaign involved intensive outreach to the Dallas BA membership regarding how they could assist in the clean up and reconstruction of the Dallas BA office following the destruction caused by a broken fire sprinkler pipe in February 2021. The goal of the fundraising effort was to turn that challenge into an opportunity to go beyond the insurance proceeds and modernize the building, originally constructed in 1998, to be compatible with how the association operates today.
The Association Excellence Awards (AEA) is an annual program designed to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of state and local home builders’ associations and executive officers in the field of association management. EOC membership consists of the staff executives who direct more than 650 NAHB-affiliated state and local home builders’ associations representing more than 140,000 home builders in communities across the United States.
“I’m especially thrilled about this particular AEA Award,” said Executive Officer Phil Crone. “Our staff took the initiative and created a truly novel and innovative program that will set the standard for any other association that may find itself in the same unfortunate situation we were in. I’m really proud of them along with all of the members who contributed to the educational videos, especially Rebuilding Captain Michael Turner.”
The winning entries will be added to the NAHB website, so that other executives and associations across the country can access and learn from them in order to provide better service to their own members and community.
The Dallas BA Rebuilding Together campaign is beginning to wind down ahead of the reopening events at the Association’s headquarters. Members still interested in contributing can access a link to the Dallas BA reopening gift registry at Dallasbuilders.org/Buildingfund.