{"id":6703,"date":"2021-05-12T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:47:51","slug":"ceo-message-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"CEO MESSAGE \u2013 May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello to May!<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple of HR announcements to start off our May news.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Smith, our new director or resource development joined us on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> May. Danielle has a strong career in non profit fund development and relocated from Calgary to join us.\u00a0 Over the last week we have been onboarding and taking her for tours around our wonderful ReStores to introduce her to our staff and volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, at the beginning of May we said goodbye to Madison the assistant manager at the Kelowna store.\u00a0 Madison has been a big asset to us and we will miss her enthusiasm and passion for Habitat.\u00a0 We wish the best of luck as she starts her next career journey on the Sunshine Coast.\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted to announce though that a current employee has been promoted to fill this vacancy.<\/p>\n<p>The count is finally in from the April bottle drive, we raised $6542 including a $300 donation from the Boucherie Bottle Depot.\u00a0 Our next drive will be the 10<sup>th<\/sup> July, so please hang onto your bottles until our next event.<\/p>\n<p>On the build site we now have the first building up and the rough ins for electrical and plumbing are currently being installed. It is great to be on site and see the progress.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t yet seen it check out the time lapse video on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LMfCzIG9gB0.\">YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0 This video is also being played on the screens in our stores.<\/p>\n<p>We had some great news from Habitat Canada regarding our 2020 statistics which are reported for all 108 ReStores across the country, now it was an unusual year as some stores were forced to close longer than ours in the Okanagan and that isn\u2019t factored in, however here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer hours\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1<sup>st<\/sup> West Kelowna 7<sup>th<\/sup> Kelowna, 14<sup>th <\/sup>\u00a0Penticton<\/p>\n<p>Drop off donations\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01<sup>st<\/sup> Kelowna 2<sup>nd<\/sup> West Kelowna 8<sup>th<\/sup> Penticton 31<sup>st<\/sup> Vernon<\/p>\n<p>Daily transactions \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<sup>nd<\/sup> West Kelowna 7<sup>th<\/sup> Kelowna 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Penticton 32<sup>nd<\/sup> Vernon<\/p>\n<p>Gross sales\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010<sup>th<\/sup> West Kelowna 15<sup>th<\/sup> Kelowna 36<sup>th<\/sup> Penticton 62<sup>nd<\/sup> Vernon<\/p>\n<p>Both Penticton and Vernon made impressive gains from their previous rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the staff, volunteers and donors who have contributed to our success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the build site we now have the first building up and the rough ins for electrical and plumbing are currently being installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,105],"tags":[34,41,104,106],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-lake-country-build","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-message","tag-lake-country","tag-lake-country-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}