Endowment Awards $87,000 for NAHB Oral History Project
 The National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB, recently awarded a two-year, $87,000 grant to support an ongoing effort by NAHB and the endowment to preserve and tell the oral history of NAHB and the housing industry through videotaped interviews.
This grant, along with several previous grants awarded, puts the endowment’s commitment to the project at more than $200,000. The latest grant will enable the NAHB Library and Archive Services to interview and videotape housing icons and industry leaders about housing in America. The interviews will be conducted during the next two years. The project will also preserve these interviews in the most up-to-date format and make them available to members, future builders, historians and researchers. “The National Housing Endowment Board of Trustees is proud to support this effort to tell the story of how housing became an integral part of the American way of life and preserve the voices of our industry’s leaders as they recall ― sometimes with vivid clarity — the many stages of our growth,” said Mark Tipton, the first vice chairman of the endowment and the 1991 NAHB president. “I have been behind this project from the very beginning. It is truly in keeping with the endowment’s promise to honor the past as we look to the future,” he said. For more information about the Oral History Project, e-mail Mehret Samuel at NAHB's Library and Archive Services, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8226. | 
