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Get involved
Register now for Act! Speak! Build! Week
Join your fellow young people in raising your collective voice about affordable housing needs. The 2015 Act! Speak! Build! Week event will be held April 12-18. ASBW is your chance to join forces with Habitat volunteers from across the United States. We encourage young people to engage elected officials and policymakers in their communities. |
Collegiate Challenge spring break registration now open
Collegiate Challenge is Habitat for Humanity International’s year-round student alternative break program. Join more than 11,000 students this spring and have fun serving others. Trip dates run Feb. 8-April 4, 2015.
Teams must have five members, and participants must be at least 16 to build. Don’t forget to read our resources and forms page, which includes waivers and toolkits to answer most of your team’s questions. Email [email protected] with any questions. |
Enter National Geographic’s video contest to win a $500 grant
Calling all high school students! National Geographic wants to hear how you’re making a difference in the world and giving back to your communities. Show us your passion for community service through a short video highlighting your involvement with an organization or project that makes a positive impact in your community. The grand prize winner will travel on a community service trip of his or her choice to Costa Rica, Peru, Nepal, Fiji or Thailand in the summer of 2015. Also, your organization or project will receive a $500 grant! Visit the contest website for more information. |
Discount registration to Habitat on the Hill available for Young Professionals
Join us this February 10–12 in Washington, D.C., to learn more about policies affecting housing in the U.S. and globally. Habitat on the Hill is Habitat’s annual advocacy conference that puts you on the front lines with Congressional members and staffers to discuss how housing can be made more affordable and equitable.
Habitat Young Professionals can attend for $299. Visit the event page and use the “HYP2015” discount code when prompted to receive a savings of more than $75. |
News and updates
Habitat Young Professionals now online
Habitat Young Professionals are now just a click away. Find a chapter in your area or to learn how to start one. Archived newsletters as well as stories from this year’s events are available to catch your team up on how people ages 25–40 stay active with their local Habitat affiliate. Joining Habitat Young Professionals is a great way to network with young people in your community and continue to serve in Habitat’s mission wherever your career takes you. |
Learn and Build Experience returning for 2015
Later this month we’ll release the locations and open applications for our 2015 Learn and Build Experience trips. Learn and Build Experience is an immersive build experience for individuals ages 16–18 that adds education and community activities. Participants arrive individually to meet with 15 other students as strangers and leave with many friends and priceless memories. Check our frequently asked questions for more information. |
Continue to Reconstruct Normal
This year's Youth Leadership Conference & Young Leaders Summit was a hit. More than 250 young people attended the three-day event in Charlotte, N.C. Social media saturation helped us make more than 20,000 impressions to raise awareness about poverty housing and Habitat's mission. If you weren't able to attend, you can still get all the great coverage by joining our Facebook group. We’ll continue to post throughout the year to keep up the excitement of "Reconstructing Normal" in your neighborhood. |
We elected the 114th Congress. Now let’s keep in touch.
To fulfill our vision — a world in which everyone has a decent place to live — we have to address the policies that limit Habitat for Humanity’s ability to serve more families and communities and the laws and systems that could make housing more affordable. While our expert advocates in Washington are invaluable to this mission, the most influential voices to a member of Congress are those of the people they represent: read the Communicating with Congress report about citizen advocacy [PDF]. Join us in 2015 as we address housing policy across the country. |
Habitat's youth staff wants to hear from you! Send your stories, videos and photo links to [email protected]. Your news could be shared in our next newsletter. |
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