With more than 1.6 billion people across the globe who still lack adequate shelter, our market development programs are continually pursuing new strategies to assist even more families in need of a safe place to call home.
With credit and debt issues, Anita thought about giving up more than once, but the promise of an affordable and good home for her family always prevailed.
What can you learn from community service? Habitat’s Heather Lafferty shares how helping others brings people together to focus on our common humanity.
Wesco employees participated in projects including new home construction, home repairs and rehab projects with local Habitat affiliates within communities where they work and reside.
Since 2005, Thrivent – a Fortune 500 financial services company that puts generosity at the heart of saving and investing – and its clients have contributed over $283 million and more than 6.4 million volunteer hours to Habitat for Humanity to help build, rehab or repair homes in the U.S. and across the globe.
Take a look back at all that has been accomplished and how Habitat is still building along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The joint effort to repair more than 30 homes will kick off May 2 in the South Park neighborhood of Houston, Texas, and coincides with Megan Thee Stallion Day in the city, which was established in 2022 to honor the three-time, Grammy award-winning artist’s philanthropic work.
Shawnee, Tami and Bobby represent three of the 13 families in the Towns at Ivy City development — and 41 in the larger Ivy City neighborhood — that have benefited from an ongoing partnership between D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development and Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C.