By Joseph D. Bryant
Housing Authority of the Birmingham District
A nonprofit foundation providing scholarship support to Birmingham public housing residents is rebranding with a new name and logo.
The Housing Authority of the Birmingham District’s scholarship foundation is now the Naomi H. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The foundation board of directors changed the name to honor Truman, the late HABD executive director who created the foundation and served as its first president.
The foundation was created in 2012 to provide scholarships benefiting public housing and Section 8 housing residents. Truman died in January.
“We wanted to solidify the legacy of Ms. Truman and recognize the longstanding impact that she has made through this foundation,” said Cardell Davis, scholarship foundation president and chairman of the HABD Board of Commissioners. “Ms. Truman believed in education and making opportunities available to all who seek it. As our new motto illustrates, the entire point of the foundation is to ‘encourage the best in all of us.’”
The new logo features a learning tree with the motto – “Encourage The Best In All Of Us” — written in script just below the surface to represent the deep roots that the foundation seeks to establish for its beneficiaries.
HABD employees made more than $50,000 in voluntary pledges this year. This is the second year that the staff of about 240 employees has participated in the giving campaign. More than $40,000 was raised in 2016.
The foundation also benefits from the annual George Pegues Memorial Family Self-Sufficiency Golf Tournament, Sept. 8 at Roebuck Golf Course.
“The generosity of our staff and the Birmingham community has long surpassed our expectations,” said HABD President/CEO Michael Lundy. “Real lives are being enhanced and families are uplifted through these donations to our scholarship foundation. This is truly a demonstration of putting service into action. The housing authority is dedicated to helping individuals and families find a path to long-term self-sufficiency. There is no better way to reach that goal than through education and professional development.”
