Housatonic Habitat for Humanity Press Release

Press release: 

Housatonic Habitat for Humanity announces the hire of Mary Aly as Executive Director.

Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, an agency that provides affordable homeownership to low income families, has hired Mary Aly as Executive Director.  Aly has been assigned the task of executing the agencies strategic plan for aggressive expansion.  The Board of Directors, under President Richard Wenzel states, “It is our goal to provide our towns with a solution to the affordable housing crisis.”  And in that vein, the Housatonic Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors intends to build 40 homes per year in the coming years.

Housatonic Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization.  HHFH seeks to eliminate poverty housing from sixteen towns in western Connecticut and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.  In view of that vision, HHFH mobilizes the local community to provide responsible homeownership opportunities to families with limited income.

Housatonic Habitat for Humanity covers New Canaan, Wilton, Weston, Redding, Ridgefield, Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, New Fairfield, Sherman, New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Gaylordsville, Newtown and Washington.

Aly joins Sam Dobrotka, HHFH’s Director of Operations in the Danbury office.  Aly’s main focus will be to raise enough money for HHFH to begin to acquire properties for build up and build out.

Previously, Aly has held senior level positions with Mikey’s Way Foundation, Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of Southwestern CT, Childcare Learning Centers and Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center. 

Aly resides in Wilton, with her two children and three cats.  She is a recent member of the Wilton Women’s Club.  Her past volunteer work includes: serving as an executive board member on Trackside:  The Wilton Teen Center, the Greenwich Rotary Club and the Parent Leadership Institute in Stamford.  Aly also volunteers with terminally ill patients at the Richard L. Rosenthal Hospice Resident.

For more information about Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, please call 203-744-1392 or visit housatonichabitat.org.

Karen Anderson
Ex. Assistant/Office Manager
203-744-1340
(fax)203-744-1341
http://us.mc800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Karen@housatonichabitat.org