Aging in Place with Critical Home Repair
A troubling reality is that many older adults, about 19 million, are living in homes that are in disrepair or inadequate for their needs...
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GMHFH
Dec 30, 20202 min read
How you can help your employer help Habitat
Many companies not only encourage their employees to give to and volunteer time to nonprofits in their communities, but also will match...
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GMHFH
Nov 13, 20202 min read
Women Builds Change Lives: The Difficulties of Conventional Homeownership
For a single mother like Heidi, being able to own her own home through Habitat means a lot. “It means control over my environment and...
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GMHFH
Oct 29, 20203 min read
Women Builds Change Lives: Caretaking and Providing
The only home Joyce could afford to rent for herself and her six children was forty minutes from where she worked and where her kids went...
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GMHFH
Oct 14, 20203 min read
Women Builds Change Lives: The Gender Wage & Wealth Gap
Women and children make up the majority of people populating Habitat neighborhoods, as they are the most likely to be affected by poor...
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GMHFH
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Who ever heard of a junk-o-lantern?
Happy October! Our ReStore team is incredibly excited to begin a new series of blogs and videos called "ReStore In Your Room," consisting...
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GMHFH
Sep 18, 20202 min read
Women Builds Change Lives
Imagine being a single mother, trying to find an apartment for you and your children. Everything you can find in your price range is...
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GMHFH
Sep 9, 20201 min read
Women that Inspire
Women Build is about empowering women and fostering the belief that the women in our lives can do anything she sets her mind to. During...
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GMHFH
Aug 3, 20203 min read
Celestin & Marie
“We started the process when I was in sixth grade, and we came over when I was in eleventh”, Celestin recounts, describing the long...
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GMHFH
Jul 27, 20202 min read
Safer at Home.
We are safer at home. The best way to protect ourselves and others is to stay home. We've been hearing that over and over the past few...
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GMHFH
Jul 14, 20202 min read
Now We Are Home.
Macky and his family have been waiting for this home for a long time. He even worried that, with everything going on in the world right...
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GMHFH
Jun 12, 20201 min read
We ARE Building Back
Update on Macky & Yvette's Home: COVID-19 has presented many unique challenges in the construction of Macky & Yvette's home. At the end...
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GMHFH
Jun 5, 20202 min read
We Stand with You.
Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s most renowned human rights activist, once said that “if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you...
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GMHFH
May 15, 20203 min read
Building the past, repairing the future.
Teressa had always viewed her home as a place for her children to grow-up. The house had given her a lifeline, a foundation that her and...
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GMHFH
May 6, 20202 min read
ReOpening our ReStore!
UPDATE: We are now accepting cash! We are excited to announce that we will be reopening to the public on Tuesday, May 12th at 10 am! To...
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