News In Brief
Volunteer Opportunities for the Martin Luther King Day of Service
Get your hands dirty while helping your neighbors and honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Make January 21st 'A Day On, Not a Day Off!' Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod is partnering with local veterans groups, nonprofit groups, and YOU to serve the needs of the community. Like carpentry work? Assist the NAM Vets Association of the Cape and Islands by hanging drywall and other construction projects to rehabilitate a veteran's counseling center. Have a green thumb? Assist Cape Abilities to begin a tomato crop at their greenhouse! Crafty? Partner with the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension 4-H program to tie blankets and complete crafts for care packages to United States soldiers and their families through Operation Military Kids. Do what you like to do, bring your kids or a friend, and we will make sure that you get plenty of snacks and lunch. For more information and to register visit: www.americorpscapecod.org or call Christin Marshall at (508)-375-6863.Applications for Centerville and Orleans Coming Soon!Very soon we will be posting applications for a three-bedroom home in Centerville and five homes in Orleans (two two-bedroom homes and three three-bedroom homes). Applications will be posted on our website as soon as they are ready.
 Recurring Gifts
Many people have asked us to make it easier for them to set up a monthly giving program. You can now make a recurring gift right from our webpage. Or use this link:
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Greetings!
2013 is off to a grand start, with plans underway for five home dedications and 10 new builds! However, in the midst of all that excitement, we have bittersweet news: we have to say goodbye to Sarah Tribuzio, our Director of Resource Development, who is leaving us at the end of this week for a new job. Sarah will be missed.
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Bourne Home Dedication Ceremony
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Amy raising walls on
May 19, 2012
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It's the first dedication ceremony of 2013! On Sunday, January 27th at 2:00pm,we will dedicate 6 Flintlock Lane, Bourne, future home of Amy Campinha and her three children. Light finger foods will be served. All are invited - please tell your friends.
Dedication of 6 Flintlock Lane
January 27th, 2013
2:00pm
Bourne
We are currently processing applications for new homes to be built in Falmouth and Mashpee in 2013, and applications will be on our website very soon for homes to be built in Centerville and Orleans.
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Sarah with two of her children at the Bourne Wall Raising Ceremony
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Farewell to Sarah Tribuzio
Our best wishes to Sarah Tribuzio, as she follows her career path to Housing Assistance Corporation, where she will continue to raise money to help fund housing solutions and transitional help for families and individuals with critical housing needs. Sarah has served as our Director of Resource Development for almost two years and has been an awesome member of our staff and volunteer team. Friday, January 11th, is Sarah's last day here at Habitat.
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We are Hiring!
On a related note, we are hiring! We are seeking a qualified, experienced candidate with a passion for our mission to serve as our full time Director of Resource Development. Please help us spread the word. The job involves a high level of diverse responsibilities. We need someone with lots of initiative and leadership talent, who can flourish, also, supporting the efforts of our volunteer/staff teams and committees. The job description is on our website. We are thrilled to have the assistance of Catherine Reynolds (508-428-0003) in conducting this candidate search. Resumes with cover letter should please be emailed directly to Catherine@reynoldsresource.com (NOT to the Habitat office).
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We are lucky to be blessed with so many wonderful donors, volunteers, and advocates - all of whom help us realize our mission of building homes, changing lives, and preserving community. But there are always a few specialized items or unique volunteers that we could use. If you are able to help provide any of these items or services, please call and let us know. We thank you.
- Data entry volunteers - we can always use help with this task!
- Pipe Staging - very important with our busy build schedule this year.
- A photographer just for special events.
- A generator.
- Photographer with the ability to create a time-lapse movie of a build site.
- More cordless drills - there never seem to be enough!
- A "Team Build" assistant - someone to help coordinate business groups on our sites.
- A chain saw.
- People who enjoy helping with donor recognition.
- Grant writers.
For more specific information, please contact Dawn Walnut at dawn@habitatcapecod.org or 508-362-3559 ex. 16.
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 Welcome to our New ReStoreAssociate, Roe Osborn Welcome Roe Osborn, ReStore Associate. At the end of December we were pleased to add Roe Osborn to our ReStore staff, 3 days/week. ReStore Associate means Roe will be working in every aspect of the store's operations, depending on the hour, the day, the week - assisting customers with their questions or helping to load up their purchase, organizing how merchandise is displayed, picking up donations, ringing up sales, and acting as floor manager when needed.
A Harwich resident, Roe brings to us a great background in the building trades as a carpenter, boat builder and contractor; he really knows our product. This background, along with an interest in writing and photography led Roe to an editorial position at Fine Homebuilding magazine, a job he held for 11 years. Roe brings a wide variety of skills to his new job, as well as a passion for our mission, and enthusiasm for helping the ReStore succeed. As a self-proclaimed 'people person,' Roe also wants to help make ReStore a fun place to shop. Roe says, ""My first ReStore experience was more than 10 years ago on the Oregon coast, and I've been excited about the concept ever since. I was jazzed to learn that the Cape was getting its own ReStore, and I'm thrilled to be a part of the Cape ReStore team!"
As a volunteer, Roe has swung a hammer in other parts of the country for Habitat. For our affiliate, he shot and donated the aerial photos of Gomes Way, and more recently he wrote a jingle for the ReStore that you will be hearing on radio stations this spring (Roe does the double bass and vocal, with Brewster resident, Bert Jackson on guitar and second vocal). The jingle was produced so that a narrative voice-over can be added to the middle section and revised whenever needed, and so that commercial length can be 15, 30 or 60 seconds. Check out a preview of the jingle here.
Roe's part time ReStore hours work out as a great complement to Roe's multi-faceted livelihoods: musician, sculptor, photographer, and writer. You can find out even more about Roe at his websites, roeosbornphoto.com, and capecodcreative.com. And you may also want to check out his two books, Framing a House and Finishing a House (Taunton Press) . We are very lucky to have the multi-talented Roe joining Team ReStore!
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Volunteer Spotlight
Jen Avery has been a Habitat volunteer since 2006, when she got involved in our Women Build at Middle Road in South Chatham. She also worked on the Women Build house on James Burr Road in Brewster. Jen really enjoyed the work and especially the idea of helping to improve the lives of neighbors. She remembers how great it felt to see sidewall shingles go up to cover a significant section of the house, and knowing that she had - with her friends - helped make that happen. At the end of the day, she says, "We were tired and sore, but it felt great!" But Jen works full-time as a physical therapist for Spaulding Cape Cod in Orleans. Add to that the scheduling needs of her two teenage children, and Jen found it was difficult for her to take time off for more builds. But she has found another, unique, way to donate time to Habitat. She attends the monthly Board meetings and takes notes during the meeting. These notes are sent to the Board's Clerk for review and then are presented to the full Board for approval. Jen finds this work to be gratifying and Habitat benefits from her attention to detail and ability to summarize the most important information. Jen says, "Being able to help with the Board meetings is a good way for me to balance being able to be a part of Habitat and getting our kids to and from their activities. The thing that motivates me to stay is that I see how much good HfH does, and how caring and hard-working the Board members are, and it makes me want to continue to be a small part of that." Jen sees her part as small, but we do not. Vicki Goldsmith says, " It is very hard to participate fully in a meeting and take notes at the same time. When Joanne Smith (who was a great clerk and board member) left the Board we found that the "Clerk" job was a hard spot to fill until we came up with the idea of splitting off the drafting of the minutes as a separate volunteer job - still needing to be reviewed by the Board's elected Clerk (currently David King). Jen has been incredibly loyal to this responsibility, consistently dedicating a high level of care and attention." Most people think of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity as a job swinging a hammer. And Jen Avery certainly can do that. But as Jen shows, there are plenty of other ways to volunteer. Habitat has a volunteer opportunity for everyone! Contact Dawn Walnut at dawn@habitatcapecod.org or 508-362-3559, ex. 16 to discuss the variety of volunteer jobs that are available, and how your particular skills and interests can shine here.
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