Habitat for Humanity has a vision of a world where we share one humanity, and that’s a world that we believe in and fight for every day.
We are a faith-based organization, but we realize that faith must be coupled with works and action.
Our faith inspires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, to be in service to others, to care for the safety and wellbeing of others. We seek to build a world where everyone has a decent place to call home. More than a roof overhead, but a safe, healthy home where families can grow and develop, flourishing beyond their wildest dreams. We build hope for a brighter future for all. Our build sites bring together volunteers from diverse backgrounds, neighborhoods, socioeconomic stratum, and create bonds that remove barriers.
It is during these chaotic and uncertain times that it is important to continue bringing people together to build bridges, to understand each other on new and exciting levels. To build bonds through faith in action, knowing that each one of us is unique, precious and important; deserving of respect, opportunity and the resources to thrive. We must continue to build the Beloved Community.
By donating to Habitat this week, you are directly connected to our mission, our Future Homeowners and their children. Your support helps advance racial justice and equity in all areas of civic and community life. What an incredible gift that is to our community. Your support can take on many roles: financial contributions, donation of time by committing to a long-term volunteer schedule, advocate for Habitat by sharing with others through social media and outreach, serving on committees, shopping at our ReStore locations and donating furniture and building supplies, too.
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Habitat for Humanity International Press Release:
ATLANTA (Sept. 3, 2020) — Habitat for Humanity International co-signed the statement below as part of a coalition of other national nonprofit organizations.
As leaders who are committed to equity and justice, as mission-focused organizations who are stewards of the public trust, and as a nonprofit sector with far-reaching impact on the national economy, the undersigned are committed to advancing racial justice and equity in all areas of civic and community life. We are deeply moved by the stark racial injustice that the intersecting crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence toward people of color have once again revealed — racial injustice that is intertwined with America’s past and its present. The racial and ethnic disparities that persist across economic, education, healthcare, criminal justice and other sectors of society make clear that systemic racism continues to undermine the foundations of well-being for communities of color by denying access to opportunity and making it more difficult to secure jobs, housing, healthcare, education, nutrition and equal treatment under law.
Faced with this moment of national urgency and entrusted by communities to lead in crisis, we affirm and commit to utilizing the following principles and values as a guide in our individual and collective efforts to advance equity and justice:
We commit to dismantling systemic racism, redressing past discrimination, and advancing equity within our organizations, in our communities and in our nation — through our organizational policies and practices, in our programmatic work and by advocating for changes in public policy and law. Racial and ethnic disparities are a direct result of systemic racism today as well as past, un-remedied discrimination that was often imposed or sanctioned by the government. Addressing these disparities requires our active engagement to change law, policy and practice.