Union Bank

California Bank & Trust

Zurich North America

Carl Jordan 

US Bank

Eva Kalawski  

Platinum Equity, LLC 

Mike Lang

Lang Media Group

 David Mead

Southern California Edison

Matt Petersen  

City of Los Angeles

Lori Raya

Vons, a Safeway Company 

Linda Russell   

Wells Fargo

A world where everyone has a decent place to live. 

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. 

NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM HOME DEDICATIONS

CATHOLIC COALITION

The kickoff of Habitat LA's inaugural Catholic Build took place on Saturday, July 19 at our Magnolia Ave. site in Lynwood, CA. Parishioners and friends gathered to learn more about the newly formed Catholic Coalition. The Coalition has committed to raising $150,000 - the cost of a full house sponsorship - as well as building the home during planned build days throughout this summer and into spring 2015.

The Catholic Coalition is made up of local Catholic churches and organizations. To date, they have raised $65,000 and garnered the support of Archbishop Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Church groups or related organizations that are interested in getting involved can do so in a number of ways.  

Contact Chris Untiet, Habitat LA Faith Relations Manager

424-246-3622 or chrisu@habitatla.org

FEED SOCAL

Roxana Sanchez

Roxana Sanchez and Neemat Abdusemed are two great interns that came to us through the Bank of America Student Leaders Program. Both young ladies recently blogged about their experience working with Habitat LA. Read an excerpt from Roxana's blog below.

"The first thing that I learned when coming to Habitat LA was that everything has an acronym and I mean EVERYTHING. Whether it's a department like EMC (Entertainment, Marketing and Communications) or events such as PWPT (Power Women Power Tools) or HFHFH (Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity) to simple things like RE (Raiser's Edge-an organizational database) people here at Habitat LA have created their own language of acronyms, and it works!

During my time here I have gotten to experience a little bit of everything. I have gotten to shadow different department heads, gone out with the trucks all day and helped them pick up ReStore donations all over Los Angeles, and of course gone out to a build site to help frame a Habitat home.

I have been truly inspired by Habitat's employees and volunteers alike. What everyone has in common is passion. I have witnessed how hard employees work. People wear many different hats outside of their role, and they wear them gracefully."

Read the entire blog post HERE.

Read Neemat's blog post HERE.

By Jennifer Wise, VP of Resource Development, Habitat LA

A few months ago I was working on a build site with a group of volunteers that included John and Mary, a retired couple. They have been Habitat LA volunteers for more than 20 years. As we were framing walls, they shared with me their desire to do more to ensure that hardworking, low-income families have a decent  home. They brought up that one way to do this would be to leave a legacy gift to Habitat LA. I suggested that they talk with their accountant about making future gifts using non-cash assets such as appreciated securities, or talking with their attorney about adding a provision in their will for Habitat LA. Mary nudged John and commented, "You know, I think the kids can live just as well inheriting 95% of our estate instead of 100%!"

As you can see, there are many different ways to make a gift to Habitat LA. A legacy gift will help Habitat LA to continue making affordable homeownership opportunities available well into the future.

We would like to offer you a complimentary copy of our brochure, "What You Need to Know About Wills." For more information, please call me at (424) 246-3627 or e-mail me at jwise@habitatla.org.

The information shown here is for illustrative purposes only and not intended as legal advice. For legal or tax advise Habitat LA recommends contacting your advisor.

A world where everyone has a decent place to live.

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Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.