This week we celebrate Cheboygan Habitat ReStore’s 18th Birthday!
That’s 18 years of assuring affordable household goods are available to our community. 18 years of taking in gently used donations, keeping them from the landfill. 18 years of offering a hand up to the community through our affordable household goods. Each item, from nuts and bolts to full bedroom sets are all sold and used to raise funds toward building homes while offering affordable options for the community. How can you support our efforts for the next 18 years?
Donation Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17QHBh1EG_yPqHUI5afuUNnWUasD7JdFxO4yhAUqIYQE Volunteer Link: https://www.habitatcheboygan.org/volunteer.html
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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 Over the past several weeks we were given a unique opportunity to contribute to our community in a fun and exciting way. We were asked to help construct a Free Little Art Gallery. The Free Little Art Gallery is for small artworks instead of books, similar to the Free Little Libraries that people are familiar with. If you see something in the gallery you like, take it home. Or create something you want to share and leave it for someone else to take away and love. Free Little Art Galleries are all about encouraging people to create art and share it with the community. This was a fun project to create, and we hope people find a little inspiration in the art displayed. So why is art important? We have been creating it much longer than recorded history, as much as 40,000 years ago. Art serves as a reflection of our emotions, the world around us, and is a way to communicate across language and culture. It can be used for entertainment or for self-reflection. It can also bring us together in a unique way that carries a message and meaning. Next time your out and about and have a little free time, go down Sammons Street in Cheboygan and take a look at the Free Little Art Gallery. Below is the link to the art gallery for Cheboygan, MI. https://www.instagram.com/nolafreelittleartgallery By Nick Mersch, Site Supervisor
You can find more information like showtimes and ticket prices in the link below. We hope to see you there! If you can’t make it and would like to make a donation instead you can find the link below as well!
Showtimes & Ticket Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36618/production/1193522 Donation Link: https://www.habitatcheboygan.org/donate.html Our organization relies on the support of our generous donors who contribute both financially and through material donations. For instance, the average Habitat home in the U.S., which is a 1,200-square-foot house with three bedrooms, requires approximately 150 pounds of nails and 400 two-by-fours/sixes. We receive many of these materials through gifts and in-kind donations from our vendors. We value contributions of all sizes as they make a significant difference to us. We believe that everyone can give something, no matter how big or small. We would like to invite you to join our Square Foot Club if you are deeply interested in affordable housing and the Habitat mission and have a strong desire to help families in need of housing within Cheboygan County. By funding a square foot of our project or donating the cost of project materials, you will demonstrate your commitment to providing safe, simple, and affordable housing in our local neighborhoods. If 100 people donate $8 we could cover the cost of painting an entire Habitat house. If 50 people donated $20 we could cover the cost of ceiling fans in a Habitat house. If 12 people donated $50 each, that would cover the cost of counter tops for a Habitat house. If 5 people donated $1,000 each we could cover the cost of windows for a Habitat house. If 1 person donated a parcel of land, we have a starting point for a future home. Join Square Foot Club >Here<On April 1st a new fundraising campaign was launched called the 2024 Power of Home Michigan Campaign. This campaign is an opportunity to raise funds STATEWIDE to better help local Habitats, like us, to build more homes in their communities. Consumers Energy is partnering with Habitat for Humanity to match funds! They are offering $100,000 in match funds to affiliates which means that for every $2 raised in the campaign, it receives $1 in match funds.
This campaign gives us a great opportunity to build our home-building funds as the cost of building a home has gone up exponentially in the last few years. Every dollar raised helps us continue our mission of making safe, affordable housing for low-income families. And we’re already halfway to our initial goal of $10,000! To boost our fundraising and hopefully earn more funds, we decided to change our goal to $30,000. Every dollar counts for the construction of our new homes, and we need your help. Click the link below and it will take you to our fundraising page! https://www.classy.org/team/569108 - Hailey Jeter, Program Services Coordinator "When we were given our assignment to write an article for the news letter, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. Being semi-retired one of the things that my wife Mary and I wanted to do was visit our children. The only problem with that is our five children and their families are spread across the continental United States. Three of our children are west of the Mississippi. Realizing that it would be difficult to visit them for a weekend I decided to ask Mandy for some time off. Six weeks to be exact. I came up with an idea while I was on vacation to visit other Habitat Restores along our trip. I pitched the idea to Mandy and she agreed it was a good idea.
So on February 5, 2024 my wife, Mary, our two dogs Murphy and Freighter loaded the car and headed out on our trip. Our six week trip took us through fifteen states, Sixty-five hundred miles, visited three children and their families and stopped in on Four Habitat Restores. This is what I found out about those stores. The stores I visited were in Twin Falls, Idaho, two in Temecula, California, and one in Kansas City Missouri. Three of the Restores (Twin Falls, One of the Temecula Restores, and Kansas City) were very similar to our Restore. The retail space square footage was about the same. as ours. However, none of those three stores had a much warehouse space as our Restore. In fact two of the Restores (Temecula and Kansas City) had no warehouse space. Two of the Restores (Twin Falls and Temecula) used outside areas for sales space. One of the locations in Temecula was not referred to as a Restore but a Design Store. In that location all of the items were new. They were donated to the location by both Wayfair or Lowes. The retail space was five times the size of ours and the warehouse was similar to ours but they had tractor trailers on their loading dock full of items to be sold. Like us, all of the locations had staff that were attentive to the needs of the customers. They were very eager to speak with me. Many of the employees that I spoke with had been working at their store for many years. As for as pickups and and deliveries, all of the Restores were similar to our Restore except for the Temecula Design Store. All of their items are delivered by tractor trailer trucks from Wayfair and Lowes. What I was able to learn from my trip west is that Habitat Restores are very similar in size, in the items they sell, and the people they employee. They all appear to have the same goals to help the communities that they serve." -Ed Ryan, Truck Driver & Warehouse Associate Are you looking to upgrade your appliances? How about remodel parts of your home? Not sure what to do with all of the supplies afterward? We can help! Our ReStore works tirelessly every day to make sure that much needed household goods are available to the community at affordable prices. We couldn't do that without YOUR help! Our donors are a cherished part of our organization; the driving force! If you are interested in donating your used household goods, furniture, yard supplies and so much more you can call 231-597-9463 or click on this link: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/17QHBh1EG_yPqHUI5afuUNnWUasD7JdFxO4yhAUqIYQE to start the donation process online! We will be at Hive North in Cheboygan on March 18th to celebrate our 30th year of serving the community! There will be live music, yummy treats, great people, and tons of information about our programs. You can even learn about our volunteering opportunities and how you can get involved with building safe and affordable housing for families in Cheboygan County. Just by attending this event you are making positive change in our community. There will be a door prize valued over $100 and 10% of all sales from 2pm - 9pm are donated to Cheboygan Habitat!
If you'd like more information you can send an email to [email protected] or call 231-597-4663. |
AuthorMandy Martin, Executive Director & Team Archives
July 2024
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