6 - G IVING B ACK — F LORENCE -A REA N ON -P ROFIT G UIDE 2015
VOLUNTEERS MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Volunteers build aff ordable housing and provide aff ordable home repair and maintenance services in
partnership with local faith communities and organizations.
DONORS MAKE IT POSSIBLE!
Gift s of land, houses, cars, stocks and money purchase building lots,
construction materials and contractor services.
www.fl orencehabitat.org
Caring and Industrious Florence Habitat Supporters Continue to Help Florence Grow
During 2013 and 2014 Florence Habitat for
Humanity made its “Great Leap Forward,” by moving
into the Florence Center mall at the corner of 21st
Street and HWY 101. Its sudden visibility surprised
many people. Th e huge ReStore facility soon developed
a steady clientele of donors and customers. Habitat
Building Committee volunteers were inspired to
complete House #24 and build Houses #25 and #26 from
start to fi nish in ten months! Th e sale and dedication of
these houses signaled the completion of Habitat’s Keener
Place development – a ten-home neighborhood close to
schools and Miller Park. Habitat is pleased to welcome:
the Jason and Megan Houlihan family (House #24); the
Jaime and Alan Wilby Family (House #25); and, the
Michelle and Fredy Galvan-Vanegas family (House #26).
Th ey round out the Keener Place community.
Th e Habitat Home Repair and Neighborhood
Habitat for Humanity’s
slogan is, “A hand up; Not a
handout.”
Partner families
pay for their home repairs or
for their new houses via zero-
interest loans with monthly
payments tailored to fi t each
family’s income.
Charitable
contributions, discounted or
donated building materials and
tools and volunteer labor are
what make Habitat homes and
repairs aff ordable. Long and
short-term pledges of amounts
ranging from Five Dollars a
month to Ten Th ousand Dollars
per year give Habitat stability
and make long-range planning
and growth possible. Major
donations of houses, cars and
stocks, or bequests and legacies
allow Habitat to make even larger
investments in the development
of Florence and its surrounding
area.
In addition to pledges and
donations, what Habitat needs
are the volunteers to do the
work. If you have a day or two
each month think about calling
Ken at 541-902-9227 and signing
Revitalization Program for low-income homeowners was
in its infancy a year ago. Now it is a viable operation with
six completed Repairs, about thirty new Repair projects
in the planning stages and forty or more homes in Coast
Village qualifying for Neighborhood Revitalization
assistance with their electric service transition program.
For the most part repair and revitalization tasks have
been funded in advance by donors, foundations, Lane
County Regional Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program,
Senior and Disabled Services Division of the Dept. of
Health and Social Services, as well as the homeowners
who have received service. Th e enthusiastic response
to the Home Repair program shows us that Habitat is
developing the programs that meet community needs.
Now Habitat Building volunteers move on to House
#27, which will be built during the Spring and Summer of
2015 in partnership with Hailey Durgan, a Peace Harbor
up for a short-term repair job.
If you would rather help build
a complete house call Jerry at
541-902-9227. Habitat donors
provide the tools and materials
and the hard hats! It’s not only
fun but also a wonderful feeling
of accomplishment when you
can help someone.
Volunteering, however, isn’t
limited to construction. Habitat
needs volunteers to raise the
funds and solicit the donations
of materials. Volunteers are
needed to join the Committees
that perform the other functions
of Habitat for Humanity: Site
Selection; Family Selection;
Family Partnering and Suppoart;
Faith/Church Relations; Fund
Raising; Blueprint Newsletter
publishing; Public Relations;
General Offi ce administration;
the Board of Directors; to
name a few! Please give serious
consideration
to
joining
Habitat volunteers in helping
to provide simple, decent, safe
and aff ordable homes and home
repairs for everyone in the
Florence area.
Hospital employee. Habitat’s Site Selection Committee
has found and purchased several building sites at the
corner of Sixth and Maple Streets and on 37th Street. (We
remember our good friend Margaret Th ompson, whose
legacy to Florence Habitat was her lovely home on 16th
Street. Th is legacy made possible the purchase of the
land for future Habitat homes so that more deserving,
low-income Florence residents could achieve the dream
of home ownership). At this time, Habitat awaits the
decision of the City as to which building site will receive
a permit to begin building Hailey’s home.
Th e new land purchases have spurred the Family
Selection Committee into frantic activity and ten
new applications for housing are being reviewed. Th e
Committee hopes to complete the selection process so
that two or more new families can begin accruing sweat
equity hours in the construction of House #27.