{"id":81032,"date":"2025-07-21T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81032\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:21:09","slug":"habijax-announces-name-change-to-reflect-expanded-service-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81032\/","title":{"rendered":"HabiJax announces name change to reflect expanded service area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville, previously known as HabiJax, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habijax.org\/2025\/07\/21\/new-name-and-leadership-first-coast-habitat-for-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.habijax.org\/2025\/07\/21\/new-name-and-leadership-first-coast-habitat-for-humanity\/\">changed its name to First Coast Habitat for Humanity<\/a>, effective July 21, 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The new name reflects the organization\u2019s expanded service area, which now includes Duval, Nassau and Baker counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The name change coincides with the start of the nonprofit\u2019s new fiscal year and a leadership transition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Monte Walker, who served as president and CEO for five years, stepped down at the end of June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chris Folds, Chief Community Partnerships Officer, has been appointed interim CEO while the board searches for permanent leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">First Coast Habitat for Humanity has served the region since 1988 and recently merged with Nassau Habitat for Humanity. The organization is addressing affordable housing challenges across Northeast Florida, including Duval, Nassau and Baker counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For more information, visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habijax.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.habijax.org\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville, previously known as HabiJax, has changed its name to First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[852,5229,3188,723,55554,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-habijax","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114892143559992758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}