March 2020

Interview by Mary Macdonald at Providence Business News – March 25, 2020 Jennifer Hawkins is the executive director of ONE Neighborhood Builders in Providence. She spoke to the Providence Business News about the upcoming lottery for net-zero and passive-house homes that will be sold in the Olneyville neighborhood. The homes will be sold at prices starting at $140,000. The application period for the first homes should be opened in about a week. PBN: Remind our readers, what is available? HAWKINS: Five passive-certified, zero-energy homes. They are small. The average square footage is 725 square feet. They achieve zero energy because they’re…

Haley Hardwick Witman ONE Neighborhood Builders Providence, R.I. ONE Neighborhood Builders’ Haley Hardwick Witman was featured in the AIA-RI chapter’s monthly newsletter for March. Below is a bio of Haley from the Enterprise website. Enterprise sponsors the Rose Fellows program, which was highlighted in the AIA-RI newsletter. The progressive strides in sustainable design, both socially and environmentally, are encouraging to Haley as an idealist seeking to change the way in which people inhabit the world. She believes that it is critical to the success of a project that the existing community is involved and heard from the very beginning stages…

March 9, 2020 On Thursday, March 5, TD Charitable Foundation announced that ONE Neighborhood Builders of Providence, RI, was awarded a grant of $125,000 in support of its work around affordable housing, making it the only organization in Rhode Island to receive this funding. “ONE Neighborhood Builders is deeply grateful to TD Charitable Foundation for its support of our work to improve home, health, and safety for our neighbors,” said Jennifer Hawkins, executive director, ONE Neighborhood Builders. In total, TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, awarded 30 affordable housing development organizations from Maine to Florida a…