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Causes: Christianity, Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management, Religion
Mission: To work in partnership with god and people everywhere to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that they are safe, decent, affordable houses in which every person can experience god's love and can live and grow into all that god intends.
Programs: Habitat for humanity is not just in the home building and repair business. . . We're in the people helping business. The habitat for humanity of springfield affiliate placed 4 new homeowner families impacting 9 people's lives; performed 88 home preservation and repair projects impacting 89 people's lives and filled 5,941 volunteer spots generating @ 34,650 volunteer hours for an estimated value of 816,354. Habitat tries to fill and track the partner family home buying and home repair application pipelines, assists our mortgage company in managing over 80 mortgages, supports the efforts of ten standing committees while adhering to our aggressive grant required construction schedule. We also pro-actively maintain our support for the nw project, the impacting poverty commission, and chair the cpo housing collaborative. To help grow our neighborhood revitalization initiative, we are recharging our local faith coalition and working with the collective impact committee and other poverty reduction initiatives. The affiliate selected the woodland heights neighborhood as their targeted neighborhood revitalization community. Our restore, which sells home-improvement related items to the general public, placed in the top 2% national ranking in net sales and top 3% for highest gross revenues with @ 3,464 restore donors.