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Building Tools Needed!
We are in critical need of building tools. If anyone has tools you would like to donate, contact the office at 801-475-9821. You generosity is much appreciated and will do a lot to help some wonderful families and our community!
- Squares
- Shop Vac
- Circular Saw
- Sawsall
- Air compressor and hoses
- Framing nailer
- Tape measures
- Chalk lines
- Levels (2 ft, 4 ft, and 6 ft)
- Drills and bits
(posted: June 13 2009; updated: June 14 2009)
Habitat for Humanity Home Dedication
Noorda Family Home Dedication
on Monday, January 18, 2010
at 12:00 noon at 133 Doxey St., Ogden, Utah
Come join us to celebrate this momentous occasion. This home renovation is now ready for the Noorda family to move in - what a huge blessing for this wonderful family and for everyone who helped make it possible.
Our sincere thanks for helping make this dream come true by donating your time, talents, resources, materials and funds.
(posted: January 14 2010)
Thanks from Habitat for Humanity
Saturday, December 5, was International Volunteer Day. We are sorry that we missed that opportunity to thank you for your support of Habitat for Humanity of Weber and Davis Counties. It is thanks to you that we are able to partner with very-low-income families to help them to build or renovate, and then to buy, their own homes. Habitat homes are simple, basic, decent, and affordable because much of the construction labor is donated by volunteers.
(posted: December 14 2009)
Special Thanks to the Harrison Regent Residents and Staff!
Harrison Regent, a senior living apartment complex, provided lunch for our volunteers on Saturday, July 11. Four of the residents and one from the office staff came to serve food prepared by the Harrison Regent dining room cooks. The picture above shows Billy Rutter and Keith Cravotta and other volunteers with the people from Harrison Regent in Ogden. Thank you to the Harrison Regent for your continuing interest in and support of our effort to provide safe, affordable housing for families like the Guerreras and Noordas. (posted: July 26 2009)
Wells Fargo Foundation Grant!
Wells Fargo Foundation, on behalf of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, has awarded our Habitat affiliate a $10,000 "Team Member Volunteer Program (TMVP)" grant to support the completion of our current Doxey Street Project. We look forward to hosting a big work party for local Wells Fargo team members at the Doxey Street worksite sometime in August (TBA). Since we also received a $17,500 TMVP grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation during 2006, the Foundation has now provided funding support for our Doxey Street Project in excess of $27,500! Thank you Wells Fargo for your generous and ongoing support of our mission to help local low-income families build, and then buy, their own safe, decent, and affordable homes! (posted: July 03 2009)
Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Grant
We would like to thank Rocky Mountain Power Association for their generous grant of $2500 on 09 September 2008. This grant will directly benefit one of our current projects located at 133 Doxey Street in Ogden. Grants like these make it possible for us to continue our mission of eliminating poverty housing. (posted: June 03 2009)
Thanks for the Successful Habitat Yard Sale!
Great News and Thanks To All who helped with our April Yard Sale. The proceeds from the Sale were $2,220.75. They will go a long way toward helping cover costs such as furnaces, water heaters, and roofing and siding materials for the houses at 128 and 133 Doxey Street for the Guerrera and Noorda families.
These two houses are taking shape and beginning to look like the homes they will become. Stop by and see what's happening. Construction work continues each Saturday this summer through August beginning at 9:00 am and going until about 3:00 pm.
Our sincere thanks to all of you who helped make the Yard Sale a success by sorting, pricing, selling, picking up and delivering yard sale items. Thanks also to those who donated items and those who came and shopped at the sale. And special thanks to the Kier Management Corporation for their generous donation of the old Foods ETC building for our use for the Yard Sales.
Our next Yard Sale will be June 19 and 20 from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm at the same location. We'll schedule a couple of drop-off days for those who have items to donate. We'll also need volunteers to help once again with sorting, pricing, selling, pickup and delivery. If you'd like to help, please call or email our office.
Habitat for Humanity is truly a community effort of individuals, businesses and organizations who donate their time, talents and treasures to help local families into safe, affordable homes of their own. Thanks for being part of that effort here in Weber and Davis Counties. (posted: June 03 2009)
Hall Endownment
During February 2009, Billy Rutter and Dr. Kari Petersen of Weber State University submitted a funding request on our affiliate's behalf to the Alan E. and Jeanne N. Hall Endowment for Community Outreach. The Hall Endowment granted their request for $3000 to purchase new energy-efficient windows for the home located at 133 Doxey in Ogden. Thank you so much to the Hall Endowment for your generous $3000 gift! And thank you, Billy, Kari, and Weber State University for your ongoing support of our mission to help low-income families build or renovate, and then buy their own safe, decent, and affordable homes here in Weber and Davis counties! (posted: May 2009)
We have purchased a new house!
During late December 2008, we purchased the house located at 128 Doxey. With that purchase, our Doxey Street Project became a three-house project (rather than just a two-house project). Despite the fact that the houses at 128 and 133 Doxey require a great deal of work in order to make them safe and decent homes, we are excited about contributing even more significantly to the revitalization of this Ogden neighborhood. (posted: March 2009)