Teri McHugh

Teri McHugh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been involved in the mental health field for over 20 years and currently has a private practice. She has worked for various nonprofit agencies as a Program Director, Administrator, and Consultant, and has created new start-up programs for adults and children with mental illness. Through this she has gained considerable experience working with various governmental agencies involved in mental health activities.

Teri is also a licensed real estate broker and owner and president of LA Property & Asset Management Corp, a small business that manages commercial industrial properties and multi-family residential properties.

Meressa Naftulin

Meressa is an educator and artist and has enjoyed teaching fine arts, literacy, and English at various institutions, focusing her efforts primarily at the elementary school level. Meressa’s involvement with HFLF began when her son was placed at Cedar Street, one of HFLF’s transitional housing programs. She was so impressed by the level of care and the quality of life at the program that she requested to serve on the board in order to support its mission. Meressa co-chairs the board’s Community Relations Committee and also brings considerable experience, compassion, and understanding of the needs of mentally ill persons and their families to the board.

David Stairs

David Stairs is the Vice President of Brookhill Corp, a privately owned investment company with assets including industrial, retail, office, and multi-family. He conducts asset management as well as operations of the affiliated Brookhill Property Management Company. Prior to Brookhill, David was Regional Vice President of Legacy Partners Commercial and Regional Manager of Lincoln Property Company.

David received his BA in International Relations from USC and completed Finance and Accounting Extension Courses through UCLA, leading to certifications including a California Brokers License, Certified Commercial Investment Member, and Certified Property Manager.

David has served on a number of boards and committees throughout the years, including the BOMA-LA Board of Directors, the Chairman of Friends of IREM Committee, and the Century City Chamber Board of Directors. He has also served as President and Secretary of the San Fernando Valley Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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Volunteering & Internships

HFLF has many volunteer/intern opportunities. Volunteers are vital to HFLF. We hope you will consider joining us as we work to provide permanent housing for homeless and chronically homeless, mentally ill persons in Los Angeles County.

• Development
• Communications/Social Media
• Fundraising Event Organizing Committee Volunteers
• Fundraising Event Day-of Volunteers
• Office Volunteers

Planned Giving

Planned giving is a way to ensure that your charitable contributions extend beyond the end of your life. When planning your legacies, we encourage you to not only remember your loved ones, but also others in your community who are desperately in need. Your legacy to Homes for Life Foundation can help ensure their futures. Gifts can be structured in a number of different ways to provide tax deductions for your estate or current income taxes, including direct gifts, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and charitable lead trusts to Homes for Life Foundation. Homes for Life encourages donors to consult a tax professional or attorney when making donations of any planned gifts.

• Bequest

Support HFLF by including us in your will. Your gift will allow Homes for Life to continue to provide permanent, affordable housing and services to homeless mentally ill persons in Los Angeles County. Supporters can leave a specific amount or a percentage of their estate to HFLF

• Securities, Bonds, Insurance, Real Estate

Support HFLF donating securities, bonds, life insurance or real estate. Gifts of any of these to HFLF will have a great lasting impact on our program and can offer many benefits to the donor

• Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts

The gifts above will help HFLF continue to provide our life changing work and provide benefits to the donor

Legacy

Legacy gifts have the potential to provide permanent housing, mental health services and a variety of other services to designated individuals. We can also help you develop a legacy plan to benefit your disabled loved one, or other disabled persons you choce to.

Fundraising

Special Events serve two purposes for HFLF – events provide public awareness for HFLF and provide much needed funds to support our housing and programs. Please join our future events (to be announced below) or host your own fundraiser for HFLF.

Matching Gifts

Many companies have matching gift programs that will match employee and/or retiree charitable contributions annually. If you are making a contribution to HFLF, ask your employer if they match employee donations. If your company does match employee/retiree gifts, please contact them to obtain a matching gift form. This small step in most cases will double your donation to HFLF.

Workplace Giving

Companies and employers have workplace giving campaigns where employees can designate a payroll deduction to support their charity of choice. If your employer has a workplace giving campaign, ask if you can donate to HFLF through this program.