A huge THANK YOU to all the incredible women who participated in the 2025 Habitat Sarasota Women Build! Your dedication, hard work, and passion made this event truly special. This year, 40 amazing women united with one shared mission: to build affordable homes for families in our community. Through teamwork and determination, they helped transform…
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Habitat for Humanity Sarasota celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2025, commemorating four decades of building strength, stability, and self-reliance through affordable homeownership. Since its founding in 1985, Habitat Sarasota has been dedicated to serving Sarasota families in need, transforming lives, and strengthening the community one home at a time. Over the past 40 years, Habitat…
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What happens when ‘stay at home’ means staying in an unhealthy place? As a result of COVID-19, more than 300 million people in 42 states have been asked to “stay at home” — and now more than ever, home is everything. Home is the place to stay safe from a global pandemic. And for many…
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On May 2, 2019 at the 5th Annual SRQ Hear Me Roar Award ceremony, Renee Snyder, President and CEO of Habitat Sarasota, was inducted into the Women in Business Leadership Circle. SRQ Magazine’s annual Hear Me Roar Leadership and Awards Luncheon recognizes leading women in business from the Sarasota community and announces the finalists and…
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Habitat for Humanity Sarasota, Inc announces the addition of Jay W. Berman as their Major Gifts Officer. In this newly created position, Berman is responsible for cultivating donors to support the fundraising goal of $7 million toward Lives Transformed: The Campaign for Hammock Place. Berman is a Sarasota native with a 30-year career as a…
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Have you driven by the latest Habitat Sarasota build site at 2537 Wells Ave lately? Did you notice something different about the construction? Instead of wood-frame construction that we have used since we started building homes back in 1985, you may have been surprised by walls being built with what resembles a white foam block.…
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Habitat for Humanity Sarasota has partnered with several area businesses to offer free Pathway to Homeownership classes in order to give our homeowner candidates tools to be successful homeowners. Through these classes, future Habitat homeowners are given instruction directly from industry experts on how to create a family budget, cook healthy meals, and properly maintain…
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We want to send a special thank you to all of the volunteers from the Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee (RASM) for volunteering to help build Habitat Sarasota homes for the past 12 years! In 2017 alone, they had 43 volunteers contribute almost 300 hours to our mission to provide decent, affordable housing for…
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Habitat Sarasota is in Washington, DC, to oppose proposed federal cuts that would exacerbate affordable housing crisis in Sarasota Habitat Sarasota joins over 340 Habitat leaders, homeowners and volunteers in Washington, D.C., to encourage members of Congress to support affordable housing Renee Snyder, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Sarasota, is in Washington, DC, this…
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Finding a solution for affordable housing is on the minds of many of our community leaders, government officials, and corporations in Sarasota. A broader commitment to housing options for working families is critical to the continued growth and prosperity of Sarasota and Habitat Sarasota is committed to working with our partners in the community to…
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