QUESTION: How can we sponsor a home?

Sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity home is a great way for your organization to help our community while building teamwork and a sense of pride. Your sponsorship can include the following:

• volunteers to build the home

• funds to purchase construction materials and professional services

• donations of construction materials or professional services

• hospitality services such as snacks, drinks, and lunches for volunteers

• mentoring a Habitat family

• publicity within your organization and your community

A full sponsorship includes providing enough money and volunteers to build the entire house. Partial sponsorships involve sharing tasks and funding with another organization or with Loudon County Habitat. We can help you find the right level of sponsorship to fit your capability and interests.

Our Construction Director will supervise the overall construction of the house. You may provide skilled crew leaders, or we can recruit from our experienced volunteers. Both skilled and unskilled volunteers are welcome, and we can provide training, if needed. Your volunteers with physical limitations can help with painting, detailed finish work, hospitality services, or administrative tasks. They can work in our Home Store to raise additional funds, or can help prepare our Habitat families for home ownership.

Our Construction Coordinator will help you plan the work schedule to meet the needs and availability of your volunteers, including working on Saturdays and holidays. We’ll tell you how many volunteers are needed each day and help you organize and recruit your work crews. We provide house plans and tools, and arrange for delivery of all construction materials and subcontractor services.

The excitement builds as co-workers from different departments, supervisors and employees, committee members, church members, and family members work together, learn together, sweat together, and see immediate, tangible results as the house takes form. They know they’re changing lives and improving their community. What greater legacy can your organization leave?

For more information, call us at (865) 986-3388.

Posted 12/18/07