Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County sends love to our Partner Families and the passionate, hard-working volunteers, donors, and corporate sponsors who make our mission possible. Happy Valentine's Day!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Habitat ReStore welcomes Cate School Volunteers
On Wednesday Habitat for Humanity Santa Barbara welcomed an enthusiastic group of students from Cate School in Carpinteria. Along with two chaperones the students were given the task of completely moving the Habitat ReStore's tile section. If you shop in the ReStore regularly you'll know that this is no easy task - we have a lot of tile.
The students took ownership of the entire section and after a few short hours our tile section had a complete makeover! We're thankful for their commitment to giving back to the community and their friendship. What a fun group of students to spend the morning with!
We always need big groups of volunteers to help in the ReStore with larger projects like this. If you have a group and would like to volunteer together, please email or sign up here.
Related Links:
Habitat for Humanity's Youth Programs
Habitat for Humanity's Teacher Fellows program
The students took ownership of the entire section and after a few short hours our tile section had a complete makeover! We're thankful for their commitment to giving back to the community and their friendship. What a fun group of students to spend the morning with!
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| Their finished product! |
Related Links:
Habitat for Humanity's Youth Programs
Habitat for Humanity's Teacher Fellows program
Monday, February 7, 2011
Volunteer Spotlight on Charley Cairns
Here at Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County we love to celebrate our volunteers. We couldn't do what we do without their commitment and we consider each and every volunteer to be a member of the Habitat family. Last month we had the chance to celebrate one of our most dedicated volunteers, Charley Cairns.
Charley can be found every Friday in the ReStore stocking shelves, helping with new donations, and assisting customers. He also happens to be one of the friendliest people on the planet and always has a smile on his face. While we count on his assistance in the ReStore every week, we have also relied on his help elsewhere and he can be counted on to volunteer when we're struggling to get volunteer shifts covered. Charley was a crucial volunteer during our Tour of Green Homes fundraiser last fall and at the San Pascual build site. And he even volunteered to distribute fundraiser posters in all of Santa Barbara's coffee shops and rec centers. We couldn't have done it without him. We are so thankful for Charley's dedication to the ReStore and to Habitat for Humanity's mission of providing affordable housing in Santa Barbara.
As a way to visually thank our volunteers we provide each person with a Habitat for Humanity name tag after completing 25 volunteer hours and a name tag pin for each additional 100 hours. Next time you're in the ReStore check out the volunteers' name tags; you'll be surprised how many have a few hundred volunteer hours to their names.
Thank you to Charley and all of our volunteers who make the ReStore a success. We couldn't do it without you!
Charley can be found every Friday in the ReStore stocking shelves, helping with new donations, and assisting customers. He also happens to be one of the friendliest people on the planet and always has a smile on his face. While we count on his assistance in the ReStore every week, we have also relied on his help elsewhere and he can be counted on to volunteer when we're struggling to get volunteer shifts covered. Charley was a crucial volunteer during our Tour of Green Homes fundraiser last fall and at the San Pascual build site. And he even volunteered to distribute fundraiser posters in all of Santa Barbara's coffee shops and rec centers. We couldn't have done it without him. We are so thankful for Charley's dedication to the ReStore and to Habitat for Humanity's mission of providing affordable housing in Santa Barbara.
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| Charley receiving his volunteer certificate and name tag pin. |
As a way to visually thank our volunteers we provide each person with a Habitat for Humanity name tag after completing 25 volunteer hours and a name tag pin for each additional 100 hours. Next time you're in the ReStore check out the volunteers' name tags; you'll be surprised how many have a few hundred volunteer hours to their names.
Thank you to Charley and all of our volunteers who make the ReStore a success. We couldn't do it without you!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Common Ground Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara News-Press and Noozhawk both have articles in today's issue about a new countywide collaboration of local nonprofits, businesses, city-leaders, and faith organizations called Common Ground Santa Barbara. The purpose of Common Ground Santa Barbara is to compile a Vulnerability Index to asses the needs in our community and take steps to house the most vulnerable homeless men and women.
It's not an easy task to compile this information and Common Ground Santa Barbara is calling on the entire community to help by volunteering to be on a survey team. 500 volunteers are needed to participate in the registry week, Feb 28-March 4th.
It's not an easy task to compile this information and Common Ground Santa Barbara is calling on the entire community to help by volunteering to be on a survey team. 500 volunteers are needed to participate in the registry week, Feb 28-March 4th.
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| Photos: Kim MacDonald/Habitat for Humanity International |
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
"A Brush With Kindness" set to begin this month!
This month Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County will complete our first "A Brush with Kindness" home repair. ABWK - as we like to call it - is a short term-home repair program for low-income and elderly homeowners who are having trouble maintaining their homes. Focusing on exterior home repair services such as painting, landscaping, driveway repaving, and fence repair, the goal of this program is to serve more people in our community and increase the viability of entire neighborhoods.
We announced ABWK last fall and are proud to share that we now have our first ABWK home selected and the date set. Stay tuned as we share more about the program over the course of the month. This is an exciting time for Habitat for Humanity Santa Barbara as we'll be able to make an even larger impact in the community!
And be sure to view the excellent above video courtesy of Habitat for Humanity International. It gives a wonderful overview of the program and how it will change the lives of an even greater number of people in our community!
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