HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
Chaffee County Habitat for Humanity Mission
Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. Chaffee County Habitat for Humanity is an affiliate of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and all donations are tax-deductible. We are qualified as an Enterprise Zone participant, and donations of $100 or more are eligible for state income tax credits as well.
Our Vision
A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Our Goal
- Build simple, decent homes
- Use volunteer labor and donated materials whenever possible
- Provide affordable mortgages to Habitat homeowners
- Create a greener community through the ReStores
- Transform lives through education and homeownership
Our Strategic Plan
- Build Community Impact – Improve housing conditions
- Serve families through sustainable construction and housing support services
- Provide affordable home improvement options through the Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Rebuild actions of the ReStore
- Build Sector Impact – Partner to increase shelter access
- Pursue collaborative partnerships in support of affordable housing
- Partner with Buena Vista Correctional Complex to further develop offender build program
- Build Societal Impact – Inspire action to end poverty housing
- Serve as a leading voice in growing awareness of housing as a critical foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty
- Mobilize Board Members and volunteers as hearts, hands, and voices for the cause of adequate, affordable housing
- Build a Sustainable Organization – Mobilize resources and steward them faithfully
- Fund the mission
- Develop and retain leadership
- Operate with excellence
All are Welcome
Chaffee County Habitat for Humanity has an open-door policy: All who believe everyone needs a decent, affordable place to live are welcome to help with our work, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, political views or any of the other distinctions that too often divide people. Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliated organizations (HFH) will not proselytize. Nor will HFH work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with HFH. This means that HFH will not offer assistance on the express or implied condition that people must (1) adhere to or convert to a particular faith or (2) listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.
The Theology of the Hammer
Habitat is a partnership founded on common ground— bridging theological differences by putting love into action. Everyone can use the hammer as an instrument to manifest God’s love. Habitat’s late founder, Millard Fuller, called this concept “the theology of the hammer.” “We may disagree on all sorts of other things,” said Fuller, “but we can agree on the idea of building homes with God’s people in need, and in doing so using biblical economics: no profit and no interest.”
