St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity

St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity partners with working families, sponsors, and communities to build affordable, sustainable, quality homes and to provide support services that promote successful home purchase and ownership in Pierce and St. Croix counties, WI. SCV Habitat aligns its strategic planning with the mission of Habitat for Humanity International: “Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope." We have a vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

The need for housing does not discriminate. At St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity, an inclusive culture that encourages openness, acceptance and individual authenticity is at the foundation of the work we do together with our homeowner partners, volunteers, staff, board and communities. Equitable opportunity and service is at the heart of our mission. As stewards of Pierce and St. Croix Counties, we envision and work toward a diverse workplace and community that celebrates all races, ages, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations and physical or mental abilities. Everyone is welcome and everyone should be comfortable being their authentic selves each day.

Our goal is to partners with the community to help people with affordable housing. We will do this by maintaining 11-15 members on our board of directors who diversely represent the needs of our organization. Our staff will develop and support the financial and strategic success of the organization's mission. Volunteers and community partners will help support build and construction efforts through donations of time, fiscal and charitable contributions.

Our strategic plan includes input from the four key sub-committees that support our mission, including construction, financial development, community affairs and volunteer engagement. Each sub-committee is lead by a board member with support from community members.
In Year One (FY 2021) our goal will be to raise $500,000 that will support the reduction of organizational historic debt by half, the purchase of an affordable lot for building a home in partnership with a local municipality, the re-opening of an office space and the growth of staff to include a full-time construction supervisor, a full-time, National AmeriCorps member and a part time intern. We will partner with the community to include a Rock the Block Neighborhood revitalization program in a community within our GSA. And we will add to our board of directors to maintain at least 13 board members who support the different aspects of our organization. We will develop a solid working budget with which to gauge our needs going foward.
In Year Two (FY2022) our goal will be to increase funding for operations as well as to support the building of 2-3 homes. We will increase our community partners, foundational support, government support as well as year-round committee volunteer support. We will grow our outreach and seek further foundational and governmental support. We will work to re-open a hyrbid format of the ReStore to further support operational costs.
Year Three continues the efforts outlined above with a goal to increase home builds to between 3-5 new homes, and begin to consider the best way to return to funding our homeowner loans internally. We hope to see success with a ReStore and grow it in size and scope in order to add staff and opportunities to the organization.

SCV Habitat's success is dependent upon support from a broad range of community, foundational, and corporate partners to produce the financial materials, products, and volunteer resources necessary to build affordable homes. These relationships have been broadened and deepened as we reach out to include fully stakeholders from every sector of our projects.

In addition to the people power and collaborative connections provided by the organizations listed above, SCV Habitat is fortunate to have a diverse, committed base of financial and product/materials sponsors and organizations.

We have partnered with more than 71 families across Pierce and St. Croix Counties in Western Wisconsin with the mission to help with safe, affordable housing. In our 25 year history, we have funded our own loans, serviced those mortgages, partnered with our community and foundational partners to help support further programming including A Brush With Kindness, Aging in Place and Rock the Block Neighborhood Revitalization projects.