Giving Back to Southern California’s Building Industry

Introducing the Builders for Better Communities Foundation (BBCF), a new charitable nonprofit that will serve to promote diversity, equity, and inclusiveness on behalf of the Building Industry Association of Southern California within the Southern California region.

The foundation’s activities include partnering with homebuilding industry members who support education and awareness programs that provide positive social, environmental, and economic impacts that help shape current and future communities.

Since its founding in 1989 by the BIASC Orange County Chapter, HomeAid Orange County has approached the crisis of homelessness with a unique and collaborative mindset aimed at housing all of our neighbors experiencing or at risk of homelessness by leveraging the many building industry trades and talents. HomeAid’s mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education. For more than 30 years HomeAid has worked to be a vital force in creating safe and dignified housing for people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and to advocate for housing as a human right.

HomeAid Inland Empire is a local affiliate of HomeAid. Through housing development and community engagement, HomeAid’s mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

BITA’s mission is to provide a trained workforce to meet industry demand, offset worker retirement, and avoid labor shortages. BITA also enhances the public perception of the building industry, its diverse career opportunities, and hardworking employees.

The Donald Chaiken Building Industry Technology Academy (BITA) is a high school hands-on, project-based, construction training curriculum operating in over 45 California high schools. BITA addresses the skilled labor shortage by teaching work-ready skills and knowledge in the building industry and preparing high school students for employment in construction.