| Board of Directors | Chairman:
Gerry Bross Hollywood Sierra Kitchens Vice-Chair: Daniel Burgner Caruso Affiliated
Secretary: Jennifer LivingstonUnion Bank Treasurer: Alan WrightCalifornia Bank & Trust Bill BlakeZurich North America Celine Cordero Englander, Knabe and Allen
Scott Farer PepsiCo Ranjan Goswami Delta Air Lines, Inc
Mike Gipson City of Carson
Carl Jordan
US Bank
Eva Kalawski
Platinum Equity, LLC
Mike Lang
Lang Media Group
John Manganiello Bank of America Merrill Lynch Kim McManus
Mosaic LA
David Mead
Southern California Edison
Matt Petersen
City of Los Angeles
Lori Raya
Vons, a Safeway Company
Linda Russell
Wells Fargo
Raul Salinas AlvaradoSmith Troy Thrower The Woodward Group |
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Our Vision
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A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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Our Mission
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Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
310-323-HOME
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THANK YOU TO OUR VALUED $1,000 -$250,000 DONORS
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June 2014
Diamond Hammer
$100,000+
California Community Foundation
Presbytery of the Pacific
Gold Hammer
$50,000+
Wells Fargo Foundation
Bronze Hammer
$15,000+
Knox Presbyterian Church
Architects Circle
$10,000+
Eva Kalawski and John Sutton
St. Bartholomew Catholic Church
Silver Nail
$5,000+
Armoire LLC
Axminster Medical Group
Donahue & Horrow
Fineman Suarez Real Estate Team
McKenna Long & Aldridge Foundation
Paul Mitchell
Michael and Patricia Roth
South Bay Association of REALTORS
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America
Bronze Nail
$1,000+
Lynn Abess
Helen and John Apostle
Asian Real Estate Association of America of Greater LA
Bacardi
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Combined Properties, Inc.
The Container Store
Mindy Cotton
Mr. John Wesley Hole, Jr.
Hyatt Regency Long Beach
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Jordan Development
Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting
Kinecta Federal Credit Union
Marcus Linden and Saskia Subramanian
Moelis & Company
NSBN LLP
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Noble and Lorraine Hancock Family Fund
St. Luke's Lutheran Church
*Summit Events
Toyota Financial Services
* Denotes In-Kind Gifts
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THANK YOU TO OUR MAJOR DONORS
| The Ahmanson Foundation
Bank of America
California Department of Housing and Community Development
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Faithful Central Bible Church
The Gary D. Magness Foundation
Homax
The Home Depot Foundation
JCPenney
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Mosaic LA
Sit 'N Sleep
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
The Valspar Corporation
Wells Fargo
Whirlpool Corporation
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Summer is moving quickly, largely because July has been another busy month for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA). We enjoyed coming together with the Catholic community to launch our first Catholic Build, visiting partner families to welcome them into their homes and even volunteering at the Vons "Stuff A Truck" event. We invite you to enjoy some of your summer with us at one of our build sites or in our ReStores!
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NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM HOME DEDICATIONS
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 | | The Urrutia Family |
At Habitat LA, home dedications are celebrations where we share memories and gratitude for all of the hard work it takes to build each of our homes. Home dedications take many forms. Sometimes they are big celebrations and other times, like our recent family home dedications, they are more intimate.
We have been fortunate to visit some of our more recent partner homeowners in their beautiful homes to offer a blessing and bring them a Bible and flowers. One of the families we visited this month, the Urrutia's, sent us this heartfelt note below after our visit.
Thanks to God, that we cross paths with people at Habitat and learned that there is an opportunity to own our own house. Thanks to God and Habitat that they are helping the communities. We wish God to continue to bless you for all your work to help us.
Thank you,
Familia Urrutia Equihua
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 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
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 | | Jennifer Wise, VP of Resource Development, Habitat LA |
Vons is a great partner to Habitat LA and we were happy to support their Feed SoCal hunger initiative. During difficult economic times, one out of every six people in Southern California experiences food insecurity. Collectively Habitat LA staff donated 80 bags of groceries and some also volunteered at one of the "Stuff A Truck" events hosted by ABC7 and Vons!
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ReSTORE CORNER
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Our ReStores are open 5 days/week (Tuesday - Saturday, 9am-6pm) at 2 Locations and coming soon to a third location at our Bellflower Headquarters:
17700 S. Figueroa St.
Gardena, CA 90248
11029 Alondra Blvd.
Norwalk, CA 90650
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UPCOMING EVENTS!
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Join us for an upcoming kickoff or home dedication!
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BANK OF AMERICA STUDENT LEADERS
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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.
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VOLUNTEERS DOING MORE
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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.
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VISION & MISSION
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A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Our New Mission Statement:
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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BECOME PART OF THE HABITAT MOVEMENT!
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BUILD AWARENESS!
     
DONATE to Habitat LA! Your donations change lives! Pick up your hammers and join us as a VOLUNTEER on site today! No construction experience is required - just a smile and a willingness to help!
To become part of the Habitat Movement call or visit us:
310.323-HOME(4663)
www.habitatla.org
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