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WHAT IS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

• A nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
• We seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
• To accomplish these goals, we invite people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.
• Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller, along with his wife, Linda.
• Today, we have built over 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses alongside our homeowner (partner) families.
• Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity) into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
• Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans.
• The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

Goal

The goal of Habitat for Humanity is to eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness worldwide and to make affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action

Mission

Habitat for Humanity Findlay/Hancock County works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God's love and can live and grow into all that God intends.

History

Habitat for Humanity Findlay/Hancock County Inc. was initiated by the late Paul Geyer, President of Coldwell Banker/Geyer Associates Realty, through discussions with community leaders about the possibility of creating a Habitat for Humanity affiliate in the Findlay area in 1996. We were incorporated as a private, non-profit corporation in September 1997 and became an official Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. affiliate on August 1, 1999.  Habitat for Humanity Findlay/Hancock County celebrated its first groundbreaking on May 13, 2000 with its first House Dedication on November 4, 2000.  Habitat Findlay/Hancock County is managed by an 18 member Board of Trustees and an Executive Director.  Our office is currently located in the new Family Center.