More than 350 AmeriCorps members and 75 alumni will build or repair 22 homes during Habitat for Humanity’s annual AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon in Raleigh, North Carolina, this week.
The $100,000 donation will support on-the-ground responses to Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas and affected areas.
For the fourth consecutive year, Habitat for Humanity and the Quicken Loans Community Fund are kicking off its partnership by volunteering with local Habitat organizations during Quicken Loans Neighborhoods Weeks in Cleveland, Phoenix and Charlotte.
Members of Habitat for Humanity’s senior leadership team, Habitat employees and community members gathered to formally dedicate Habitat’s operational headquarters building in honor of the organization’s “spiritual father” Clarence Jordan.
Habitat for Humanity teams are readying their response as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall early Thursday in Florida, less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene’s devastating impact on the U.S. Southeast.
During the 2017-2018 service year, AmeriCorps members will contribute more than 595,000 hours of service toward building or improving Habitat homes in 125 communities in partnership with 1,700 homeowners.
Since 1999, Whirlpool Corp. has supported Habitat for Humanity to help improve and broaden the ways Habitat can assist more families to achieve housing stability.
