CEOs Join Habitat Suffolk To Build Shirley Home

SHIRLEY, NY — With the help of Long Island business executives, Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk built a home for a couple and their twin baby daughters on Arrowhead Drive last month.

Fifteen C-suite executives from local companies replaced their business attire with work clothes and donned hardhats to raise the walls on the home on Oct 21. Their companies helped fund Habitat Suffolk’s CEO Build program that joins executives with contractors who all volunteer to build homes.

CEO Build has constructed homes in the Towns of Islip, Babylon, East Hampton and now Brookhaven.

“Our CEO Builds are a true example of our mission statement to bring people together to build homes, communities and hope being put into action,” Lee Silberman, chief executive officer and executive director at Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk, said in a statement about the Wall Raising ceremony. “We want to thank our corporate sponsors as they help us tackle the affordable housing crisis in Suffolk County.”

The corporate sponsors of the CEO Build program include JP Morgan Chase, HealthCare Partners, Bank of America, Dime Community Bank, Riverhead Building Supply, Brookhaven National Lab, Teachers Federal Credit Union, Zebra Technologies, Roanoke Sand & Gravel, PSEG Long Island, Eagle Business Solutions, Fairfield Properties, H2M Architects + Engineers.

Habitat Suffolk partners with thousands of Suffolk County volunteers to build and renovate homes “for responsible, lower-income families, of all races and religions, who are in need,” according to the organization.

The organization builds between five to eight houses annually, and the Shirley home represents the 205th home it has built in Suffolk County.

“This project and others like it across the country set an example of how people come together to make a community a better place to live for everyone,” Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine said in a statement.

Based in Middle Island and established in 1988, Habitat Suffolk is an independently operated affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International.