Business owner, co-founder of Florida-House.org, Inc. (with husband Blaine Findlay, MCP) and the Florida-House concept, software inventor, artist and poet, Terry Hammes grew up on Capital Hill, and as a 16 year old, was one of two in Fairfax County, VA to participate in an elite program on democracy, the Valley Forge Freedom Foundation, PA, along with about 15 other high school students selected nationally. The program highlights included briefings by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the presentation of highly classified WWII footage from Nazi concentration camps not released to the public. Her father handled the AEROFLOT deal (the Soviet Union state airline, their entrance into the United States) at the height of the Cold War, on behalf of the US government, and her parents hosted diplomats from around the world throughout the 1960's in their Springfield, VA home. Her mom was the President of the Minnesota State Society throughout the Carter years, and both parents were close to Minnesotans Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale when they each served as Vice President of the United States. Terry is a former Minnesota Cherry Blossom Princess, 1975, sponsored by the Council of State Societies, Washington, DC, a group that her former real estate company of 14 years, Hammes Realty Management Corp. Vice President, has served as Treasurer for decades.

Terry helped program for the Miami Council for International Visitors for a decade and was granted a lifetime corporate membership for marketing efforts for MCIV.org, where she served as PR Director and a Delegate to a NCIV.org Convention. Terry home hosted prominent International Visitors from Russia, India, Nigeria, Romania, and in the 1990's assisted Miami Executive Director, Rosa O'Neill, who was characterized as a "brilliant programmer" by a senior US State Department Programming Officer at the National Council for International Visitors Regional Conference in Rochester, NY [in a personal conversation at Niagra Falls, NY in 2007].

She was programmed by USIA and the US State Department to travel to Seattle, San Fransisco and San Jose, CA's Silicon Valley to meet other Council Executive Directors and at the Silicon Valley Business Incubator, met and presented to International Visitor Scholars -- the IT (Information Technology) Directors of 16 nations -- her proprietary software, now in domeonstration mode, called IdeaNet: International Data Exchange Access Network, designed to standardize introductions within the 96 city Council for International Visitor Network and program participants and referrals internationally. For more information on the software, see http://www.hammesadvertising.com/ under the IdeaNet button links.

In organization for Palm Beach County, it is, as a group, attracting key organizational support within the community. Florida-House.org, Inc. (Florida House) is group organized to become a Council for Internationl Visitor city to facilitate the global exchange of internationally prominent professionals to visit the South Florida region for business and social meetings. Florida House develops programs with government, business, academia, the arts, for select International Visitors from around the world to promote mutual understanding and exchange, while strengthening the bonds of commerce and democracy, and to promote the region as a center for commerce, education and culture.

Florida-House.org Inc. has formed strategic partnerships with the Realtor Association of Palm Beach, World Trade Center of the Palm Beaches the Realtors Association Of the Palm Beaches and others are in development. For more information, please visit http://www.florida-house.org and to become a Community Resource or to Home Host, provide Professional Internships or Business Introductions, please sign up at http://florida-house.org.

Please call Terry Hammes, Founder & CEO anytime for more information at 561-620-0365 or Cellular 954-232-8245, Thanks!

Primary Benefits of Joining Florida-House

Help Build the Organization from the ground up through co- and joint sponsorship opportunities.

• Florida-House will be sending a direct mail campaign to over 1600 large corporations. We are looking for a local sponsor to underwrite the cost and co-brand mailing.
• Listing in our Online Resource Directory and logo placement on site for Sponsorships
• See http://www.florida-house.org/ for Mission and Programming
• The opportunity for Senior Management personS and Community LeaderS to join the Board of Directors to bring in what we hope will become hundreds of prominent International Visitors to Palm Beach County, to be involved in business introductions and internship placement recommendations.

• Host Prominent International Visitors
• Opportunity to be a "Citizen Diplomat" through sponsoring Professional Internships at the bank for highly qualified delegates that are hand-picked by our US Ambassador and theirs to come to the US, to Palm Beach County for Professional introductions, home stays and friendship.
• Professional Networking
• Meet Palm Beach County Professionals interested in Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Culture and Travel
• Demographics are an excellent match for a Community based GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS including educators, diplomatic, former and current military and ex-Peace Corp. members, in addition to business people to join Florida-House.org.