Donate a car to Cars for Homes™ and help build houses

Your vehicle donation can help a family build a home, and the hope of a better life! Car, truck, boat and RV donations help Habitat for Humanity build houses in partnership with families in need of decent, affordable shelter. Donate a car, truck, boat, RV or other vehicle to Cars for Homes™, Habitat for Humanity’s official car donation program, by calling 1-877-277-4344 toll free or online at www.carsforhomes.org

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Saginaw Habitat for Humanity starts deconstruct, reconstruct –with a twist

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Saginaw Habitat for Humanity (SHFH), in partnership with the City of Saginaw and Lutheran Churches have started another deconstruct-reconstruct project, at 809 S. Charles. Click here. Volunteers needed today and each day from 8-5 (except Sundays)! Call 753-5200, go to the build site or email info@saginawhfh.org
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Saginaw News story on Left Handers Build

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Newsletter

Summer 2010
7/29/2010

We invite you to share some of your favorite stories and coincidences (God-incidences) by sending us an email we can post on our website’s “Inspiration” page.

One of my favorite God-incidences came via our ReStore. A man came into the ReStore, which is known for selling gently used and surplus building materials. He asked if we had any church doors. I asked, “What are church doors?” He replied, “You know, the really tall doors that people can walk through while carrying taller items.”

“Hmmm,” I said. “I don’t know that we get a lot of call for those. Let me find out if we have any.”

I asked our ReStore Manager if we had any ‘church doors’ and I was told that right at that moment our ReStore truck was out at Second Presbyterian Church–picking up church doors!

We have kept a journal of the many times we see needs are met before we even know we have them. We think you have stories like this too. Please send them to us at info@saginawhfh.org so we can post them. We can include your name, or keep it anonymous. Either way, we would like to hear from you.

Blessings to you and yours,

Cameron M. Brady
Development Manager

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http://twitter.com/SaginawHabitat AND http://twitter.com/SaginawReStore

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Saginaw-Habitat-for-Humanity/86226832249?ref=ts AND ReStore http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Saginaw-ReStore/84715807887

• Longtime Saginaw Habitat for Humanity volunteer Robert (Bob) DuCharme was selected to receive the President’s Call to Service Award to be presented by the First Gentleman of Michigan, Daniel G. Mulhern at a ceremony Monday June 22. The presentation will occur at 11:30 am at the site of House #152, 461 Stoker in Carrollton Township.  Mr. DuCharme is being honored for his lifetime of service. First Gentleman Mulhern is Chair of the Michigan Community Service Commission, the state agency charged with funding and supporting programs to encourage Michigan residents to volunteer. 
  
  
  To encourage and recognize outstanding volunteer service and inspire others to volunteer, the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation created the President’s Volunteer Service Award. These Awards honor those Americans who have made serving a central part of their lives and show that when you help your neighbor, you are helping your nation.
  
  
  Awards are given to youth ages 14 and under who have completed 50 or more hours of volunteer service; to individuals 15 and older who have completed 100 or more hours; and to families or groups who have completed 200 or more hours. Lifetime achievement is recognized with a special President's Call to Service Award, which honors those who have provided more than 4,000 hours of service over the course of their lifetime.
  
  
  Saginaw Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Paul Warriner said,” Saginaw Habitat for Humanity depends upon the dedication of volunteers. Bob DuCharme is a dedicated servant-leader and the kind of individual that makes our communities healthy and prosperous. Our partner families and the affiliate are grateful that he has chosen us as one of the ways he fulfills his commitment to others. He is an example for all.”
  
  
  In addition to his construction-site service, Bob regularly leads a group of volunteers at Freeland United Methodist Church who make and sell eggrolls to support Habitat for Humanity and also serves as Tittabawassee Township Clerk, and HealthSource Saginaw board of trustee Chairman.
  
  
  
  
  

• "Saginaw Habitat for Humanity has tithed to Papua New Guinea HfH since our founding in 1987. Please click on the link for pictures and news from PNG."
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• Another Habitat success story
  
  

  Sitting in the pleasant and inviting atmosphere of Zada Bailey’s home the pride she has in her home is clearly evident.  When talking with Zada about her Habitat house, the question was asked, “So are you glad you made the decision to apply for a house?”  “Glad?  I asked God for it!” she replied.  “I had wanted a house and had been looking for a long time but every avenue I went down I didn’t qualify for a variety of reasons; income wasn’t good enough, etc.  I prayed to God to let me have my own house before I turned 50 years old.”
  
  

  “My prayers were answered when Habitat accepted my application when I was 49 years old.  The opportunity presented itself and I took it.  I’ve never been sorry.  I always knew it would be up to me to maintain my house and take care of it and that is what I’ve been doing.  It didn’t have to be grand or a mansion, just a roof over my head that I can say is mine.”

  
  Zada graduated from Arthur Hill High School and has been a special ed assistant for the transportation department with the Saginaw Public Schools for 24 years.  She has a daughter and three granddaughters.  She is raising two of those granddaughters, Makeisha and Whitney, and they are both currently attending Delta College.  Makeisha is studying physical therapy and Whitney is considering secondary education.
  
  Zada moved into her new Habitat home in 1998.  “Having my own home with our own yard and a bedroom for each of the girls was truly a blessing for our family.” Zada’s father always told her, “You make one step and God will make two for you.”  Zada says, “He sure will.”
  
  
  
  

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• Saginaw Habitat for Humanity Announces the
  Home Repair and Neighborhood Improvement Program
  Saginaw Habitat for Humanity will operate a home repair program as part of its affordable housing program. The HRP will give approved County homeowners the opportunity to obtain low cost repairs to their home, with low cost financing, so that their current home becomes (remains) a decent and affordable place to live.. More...
  
  
  

• Donate a car to Habitat’s Cars for Homes™ vehicle donation program
  Your car donation can help a family in your community build a house and the hope of a better life!

  Car donations to Habitat’s Cars for Homes™ program help Saginaw Habitat for Humanity build houses in partnership with families in need of decent, affordable shelter within your community.

  It is quick and easy to donate a car, truck, boat, RV, motorcycle, construction equipment or other automobile, and your vehicle donation may be eligible for tax deduction purposes if you itemize. (Consult the IRS or your tax adviser for details.)

  Donate cars to Habitat’s official vehicle donation program
  Call Cars for Homes™ at (877) 277-HFHI (4344) toll free or process your car, boat, RV donation online now!

  http://www.habitat.org/carsforhomes/

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• click here On-line donation is a great way to donate to Habitat for Humanity. We receive the money with no transaction fees and you can donate with full confidence in the security of the transaction. Your on-line donations are handled by the professionals at Habitat for Humanity International. Be sure to click the orange Designate Your Gift button on the left side and type in the zip code 48602
  

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• Saginaw County 10-Year Plan:The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) asked each county/community in Michigan with a CoC (Continuum of Care) to write a 10-Year Plan to END homelessness. This is a departure from the typical agency mindset to manage homelessness. There is a national movement toward Housing First, which says get a person into housing first, and THEN they will be more open to the offer of supportive services. It has always been my goal to have the service providers improve their discharge planning to include what happens AFTER they leave each shelter/transitional housing program. I have always thought we needed to get people ready for PERMANENT Housing (like Habitat, for instance)... and this plan will ensure that anyone requesting HUD or MSHDA money from now on will have to conform to the 10YP (including the concept of Housing First). You will be reading and hearing about this more in the next few months and years, and we want everyone to become familiar with the plan’s Goals & Objectives. –Cameron Brady

  . Read the plan here...(851KB)
  
  

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• ReDistribution Program
  Items collected are distributed to the homeless and near-homeless in Saginaw County to help make houses into homes. Read the flyer or go to the ReStore page to learn more.