Habitat for Humanity of Marion County

Habitat for Humanity of Marion County will hosts several fundraising events, appeal campaigns, awareness campaigns, invite potential sponsors to the construction site for a "Wall Raising " ceremonies to help raise funding for construction of a new Habitat home or to rehabilitate other homes. We want our donors/sponsors to know what their donation is being used for which is construction costs and zero percent towards administrative costs. We host awareness campaigns to provide potential donors information about the working operations of Habitat for Humanity and how we provide homes with affordable monthly mortgage payments to working families. Habitat will host events, speak to groups and organizations and invite donors to the construction site to be apart of changing someone's life forever with every nail they hammer or wall they raise to provide a home for a family.

Habitat for Humanity will meet the goals they established with continue effort to provide awareness of the mission and what Habitat was created for, build homes for our family partners and try to eliminate homelessness or people living in substandard conditions from the face of the earth. Hosting annual fundraisers will provide awareness and additional funds to move forward with construction of houses in our county. With dedicated volunteers, donors, staff and organizations giving a helping hand, Habitat for Humanity of Marion County will be able to accomplish this goal.

Habitat for Humanity will monitor our funding efforts which will be transferred to the Home owner Program to build homes for our working families. Monitoring the progress of our construction and awareness campaigns will assist us in establishing how many houses we can build per year and how many families we will be able to assist. Marion County offers extremely high rental places which is usually outside the budget of a low-income families working each week to make ends meet therefore having the ability to build new Habitat homes or rehabilitate homes for our working families is important and critical. Our fundraisers, campaigns and appeals will bring awareness for the need of affordable housing and the opportunity to raise the needs funds to build homes for families. . We will strive to recruit volunteers, since Habitat is based on volunteer assistance who will work with our construction crew to build our homes for our families in need. Habitat will monitor the funding and construction process and how many happy hoe owners will be able to fulfill their dream of homeownership. This will be monitored throughout construction and the loan process.

We have raised enough funds to build twelve homes through campaign funds, appeals, donations and events. In August 2019 we will close on four Habitat homes and raise the walls on three homes. The future homeowners have been dedicated to completing their 500+ sweat equity hours and completing the required training classes to meet the criteria to receive their Habitat homes. Each home that is completed, the family will receive their home along with a House Blessing ceremony where all volunteers come and witness as the family receives the house keys for the first time. This could not be accomplished without donated funds and our dedicated volunteers. The families are excited to have the opportunity of homeownership as them could not have accomplished this without the Habitat Homeownership Program. Most partners were paying high rent and living paycheck to paycheck, the Habitat homes comes with affordable mortgage payments based on the family’s income, this will give them the chance to set some money aside for their children and to build a savings account.