Housatonic Habitat for Humanity

Your Donation Enables Us to Build Homes

Housatonic Habitat receives very little government funding (about 8% of our budget).  Without your financial support we could not build a single home. Even with an army of volunteers, we would have no construction supervisors to train volunteers, keep them safe, and organize the building work. Without materials and tools -- donated, or purchased with donated funds -- we couldn't lay a foundation or put up a wall.

It's really true: We can't build without you!

Individuals choose to donate to Habitat in any number of ways. Choose yours from the menu above.

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When you contribute to Housatonic Habitat for Humanity, 10% of your contribution is sent to an international Habitat affiliate to support the building of decent, affordable homes in that country’s most challenged villages and neighborhoods.  Through this process our affiliate has provided shelter for 56 families in Central and South America (through 2009).  

Gifts can be given directly to an international Habitat affiliate through Housatonic Habitat.  Please contact our Executive Director if you would like more information about making such a gift.

NOTE #1: If you want the entirety of your gift to help families in the greater Danbury area only please indicate as such on the donation form or in the memo section of your check.

NOTE #2: Unless you designate Housatonic Habitat for Humanity to receive your gift, your donation to Habitat for Humanity International does not come to us, but rather supports construction of Habitat homes in other parts of the world.

The Scope of Fund Raising

To an extent unmatched by any other nonprofit organization, Habitat for Humanity employs virtually every conceivable fund-raising method and targets a broad and diverse constituency for its resource development efforts.

Included among our fund-raising methods, we employ:

• direct mail
• telemarketing
• special events for fund raising and promotion
• grant and proposal writing
• major gift cultivation and solicitation
• planned giving
• in-kind donations of land, labor, materials and equipment
• income from sales of homes
• ReStore
• cause-related marketing

In addition, we approach both a broad-based assortment of donors and prospects, including:

• hundreds of individuals with modest giving potential
• a smaller base of wealthier individuals with greater giving capacity
• congregations
• businesses
• corporations
• foundations
• civic organizations
• public-sector agencies at the local, regional, state and federal levels
• virtually any other group or institution with an interest in housing or the well-being of low income people