We are excited to introduce Ashley Tribisondi as the new ReStore Manager! She officially joined our team on May 28th and is eager to fully engage in all aspects of the store. Her enthusiasm for supporting the team and promoting growth is truly contagious. Here are three fun facts about Ashley: she enjoys spending time outdoors, staying busy with her family, and reading a good book.

Ashley brings with her years of management experience from Sears of Cheboygan, Lowes and Tractor Supply of Petoskey. She has progressed from a lead to upper management positions. During her school years, she was actively involved in the Cheboygan community, participating in 4H and sports.

Ashley will collaborate with the team to encourage employee development and the overall growth of the ReStore, contributing to our mission of uniting people to build homes, communities, and hope. Habitat extends a helping hand to the community and those in need. Ashley is eager to explore a different approach to retail. She believes this position aligns well with her passion for helping others and is excited to give back to her community by helping people find items they can use or add to their household.

Please join us in welcoming Ashley to the team by saying hello when you visit the store or leave a comment below to say hi!

-Mandy Martin, Executive Director.

A lot of new and exciting things are happening here at Habitat recently! We have finished our two home builds in Indian River, and we are getting ready to start 2 MORE! Along with those builds we will be moving a home to a property in Cheboygan to completely rehab for our Homeownership Program.

On top of our home builds, we are currently working on 3 Home Repairs and looking to add more this year! We are always working hard to help the families in Cheboygan County whether they need critical home repairs, ramps, or seeking homeownership. If are looking for help for repairs on your home or need more accessibility or looking for purchasing your first home with the help of Habitat, call me here at our office! I am available to discuss any options that you may think would be right for you!

Make sure to call 231-597-4663 and ext. 5 will bring you right to me! :)

-Hailey Jeter, Program Services Coordinator

With great pleasure and gratitude we'd like to thank Awakon Federal Credit Union for their donation of $50,000 toward our Home Repair efforts in the Wolverine Community. We have partnered with this great group of people many times before and look forward to the future. When we come together, we can accomplish so much more than if we tried on our own.

Our hopes are to put these funds toward revitalizing neighborhoods, repairing homes and building hope with the families living in Wolverine. We work tirelessly to offer hard working families a hand up, not a hand out, toward a better future. Each donation, each hour volunteered, each home we build, each repair we do, each life we touch is a blessing that we cherish.

Thank you, Awakon Federal Credit Union, for this donation!

In the United States and Canada, Habitat for Humanity is rated 28 out of 100, on the 2023 Builder 100 list, according to the National Association of Home Builders. In 2009 during the subprime mortgage crisis, this was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010, Habitat was ranked as the largest private homebuilder in the U.S., according to Builder Magazine’s 2008 Builder 100 list. Habitat for Humanity served 11,516 individuals through new-construction homes and 2,788 through rehab construction, in the U.S. and Canada in 2022. The organization defines new houses as structures that meet Habitat for Humanity quality standards and local building codes. Rehabs are restorations of housings that once met Habitat’s standards and local building codes but need major structural work to have them meet standards again and considered livable. Habitat for Humanity serves approximately 22,000 individuals through repair projects in both Canada and the United states per year, which includes minor projects such as patching roofs or walls and replacing materials in houses that still meet Habitat’s quality standards.

There are more than 1500 Habitat affiliates in the Unites States and 550 international affiliates as well. Habitat for Humanity Cheboygan is just a small fish in the water, but we are part of this whole picture. Habitat Cheboygan has built, remodeled and or repaired 53 homes in the Cheboygan area since 1993. Habitat officially started with their charter date in 1993, when a group of individuals ranging from 12 to 16 in number, who were passionate about affordable housing, joined hands to initiate the process of creating a Habitat Affiliate in Cheboygan County. On March 18th, 1994, Habitat Cheboygan officially became an organization with our Articles of Incorporation completed. Our founding board members were Father David Amo, Marty Andres, Todd Christian, Steve Crusoe, Donald Kosorski, George Mikos, Howard and Noreen Purcell, Ron Tebo, Jim Van Deuren, Pastor Bud Wagner, Alice Burandt, Sally Ruston, Sam Fralick, Mike Grant, Peggy Mills, and Mike Wise. Their passion and dreams from 30 years ago continue to thrive and be successful even today!

-Ron Hart, Construction Supervisor