Volunteer Stories
Lakeland Habitat appreciates your giving to build homes for those in need. You are changing lives one house at a time!
A Brush With Kindness
“Lakeland Habitat Does A Brush With Kindness!.”
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Choosing a green building rating system.
“Today, sustainability is a growing concern for the architects, designers, builders, and owners of commercial and residential buildings. Meeting the requirements of a rating system provides a metric to evaluate and set priorities..”
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Volunteer Stories
Whether it's the regular crew volunteer who is on site two days a week or someone serving on the dedications committee helping to plan our wonderful house celebrations, all our volunteers are valuable to our mission.
Disaster Response- How You Can Help the Disaster Corps
Habitat For Humanity’s Disaster Corps -Providing support for Habitat’s disaster response and preparedness initiatives across the United States After a disaster, affected Habitat for Humanity affiliates often need additional field support. Disaster Corps provides skilled and experienced professionals who are trained to work in disaster settings. Disaster Corps helps with: Disaster preparedness planning. Post-disaster assessment. [...]
Poverty Housing Affects Everyone
By Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International Recently, I was given the honor of delivering the 12th annual John T. Dunlop Lecture at Harvard University. The lecture is sponsored by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. My purpose was to either persuade or remind the business leaders, students, academics, policy makers and others [...]
3 Brothers, 3 Bikes, Thousands of Miles
Meet the Berg brothers, David, Isaiah and Nathan. They are riding their bikes in a Pan American expedition from Alaska to Argentina. What makes them even more amazing and special, is that they are riding for a cause. They are riding to support their local Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity in Eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. [...]
