Corporate Partners

Habitat for Humanity in Europe and Central Asia works with many companies to eradicate poverty housing. Our corporate partners’ donations of funds or services help us to continue providing families with homes and the hope of a better life. We are grateful for their kind support.

For more information on partnering with Habitat for Humanity through product donations, financial support or by mobilizing your employees as volunteers, please visit our Corporate and Foundations involvement section.

We coordinate international partnerships and are proud to have corporate partners like:

The world’s top steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, is teaming up with Habitat for Humanity in a global partnership to build and renovate hundreds of homes and to create a groundbreaking new model of durable, safe and affordable homes. Read more about this vast initiative to support low-income families in Europe, South and Central America, Africa and Haiti.

Habitat homeowners have improved access to credit for home repairs and renovations and benefit from training in sound financial management through an exciting partnership between the Citi Foundation and Habitat for Humanity. Read more about how the global financial services company is helping to ensure the long term financial stability of vulnerable families in 14 countries throughout Central Europe, Asia and Africa.

Credit Suisse and Habitat for Humanity joined together in an exciting global partnership in 2009. Credit Suisse has committed itself to the improvement of poverty housing through generous donations as well as through the enthusiastic volunteerism of its staff throughout the world.

Genworth Financial is helping to rebuild homes and communities in Poland and Great Britain through its partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Read more about how this global financial security company is having a local impact by improving the lives of individual families and supporting efforts to address affordable housing needs with innovative solutions.

GRANORTE is a leading Portuguese sustainable flooring manufacturer. Through a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity they will supply every new home built in the Europe and Central Asia region with flooring material.

Swiss Re Foundation: a new journey with Habitat
In 2012, Swiss Re Foundation, partnered with Habitat for the first time to support 25 families in Brazil’s Goitá Basin in their quest for a better, more stable life. Women who make a living peeling cassava in the flourmills face extreme poverty, gender inequality and precarious housing conditions. Habitat Brazil’s Rebuilding Women’s Lives Sustainably Project aims to change that by integrating various social development programs in the area. Thanks to Swiss Re Foundation's support, that change is well underway.

Whirlpool Europe’s generosity can be traced to every new home Habitat for Humanity builds with families in need of simple and decent shelter throughout Europe and Central Asia. Whether donating a refrigerator and washing machine to the new house or providing funds to help build them, Whirlpool Europe helps make life better for thousands of low-income families. Whirlpool’s employees enthusiastically volunteer for Habitat home-construction projects across the region. Read more about Whirlpool Europe’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

With financial aid and in-kind donations of Porotherm bricks and associated materials from the world largest producer of clay blocks, Wienerberger, we are able to serve more than 150 families in Romania and Bulgaria. Also Wienerberger's expertise, skills and professional input in the form of numerous volunteer hours is crucial in achieving the elimination of poverty housing worldwide and helping low income families help themselves to gain a decent place to live. Habitat and Wienerberger have also agreed to explore ways to develop some form of social entrepreneurial activity as a further way of tackling the housing issues of the poor.

ZSE-EON is a leading electrical distribution company. By contributing funds to Habitat projects, it has enabled low- income families in various regions in Slovakia to have access to the most essential repairs and renovations that are needed for basic healthy and decent living conditions.