Michael Lennon is an independent non-profit consultant, providing strategic planning and fund-raising assistance to local, regional and national non-profit organizations.
As President of HomeAid America from 1996 to 2006, Mr. Lennon guided the business development of HomeAid America, a non-profit organization founded by the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC), an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders. Their mission: “to build dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives.”
Mr. Lennon was Founder of HomeAid America’s prototype chapter, HomeAid Orange County in 1989. There he presided over the development of 28 shelter projects throughout Orange County serving groups such as homeless families and individuals, women in crisis pregnancy, mentally disabled homeless, and homeless youth, victims of domestic violence and single mothers and children.
Today the organization is the nation’s largest provider of shelter beds for the temporarily homeless and the HomeAid model has expanded nationwide to include twenty-two chapters in eleven states; More than 60,000 homeless families and individuals have found hope for new lives through HomeAid-built housing.
In the past 25 years Mr. Lennon has helped guide the establishment and/or development of a dozen non-profit organizations which serve the community and help the poor and disadvantaged.