In 2015, our annual Fore the Love of Habitat golf and comedy fundraiser raised $53,000 to build an affordable home in our community for a working family in need. This is the house that golf built… The cost of rental housing is soaring in our community. Families are struggling to pay more than half of their…
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Growing up in Vietnam, Betty remembers a rain storm that created pools of mud on the floor of her home constructed of packed dirt and straw. She tried to sleep that night while standing up, clinging to her mom for comfort. This childhood memory is her motivation to provide her autistic son a safe home…
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Florida’s Community Contribution Tax Credit program (CCTCP) offers tax incentives for corporations that seek to support affordable home building. Habitat Sarasota partnered with FCCI Insurance Group to construct a new home for a working family. In additional to a financial contribution, FCCI employees and family members are volunteering on the home for a minimum of…
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Client: 3857 Wolverine Street Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 There are many ways in which to pay for a house – for example, one can take on a mortgage, or pay cash for a dwelling. But how about asking the entire world for funds to construct a house? It seems complicated, right? Maybe, maybe not and…
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Client: Army SGT McCants Date: Saturday, November 9, 2013 Habitat for Humanity Sarasota VETERAN BUILD program was only a vision in 2011. The goal was to build homes for deserving military veterans – those individuals who have given so much to our country. Habitat Sarasota asked for donations to build the home, they asked for…
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