The One Hundred Club graciously welcomed us for our annual Ask Event on May 9th. The event was sponsored by mad*pow and approximately 50 people attended and were able to enjoy the beautiful view from the rooftop terrace. Our goal for the event was to raise $40,000 for specific project completions in Southeast New Hampshire. We raised an amazing $23,000! We still need to raise the remaining funds to complete the houses in Farmington on Reservoir Road & on Berry Court. Thank you to The One Hundred Club and mad*pow for helping to make our fundraiser a success!

Come out and bowl for Southeast NH Habitat for Humanity on October 24th! Help us continue our 20-year tradition of helping families in both Strafford and most of Rockingham Counties. Create a team with friends or ask your employer to sponsor a team. $500 donation requested per team. Can’t create team? Don’t worry, register as an individual ($100) and we’ll put you with other fun-loving Habitat bowlers.

In December 1985, the United Nations General Assembly declared the first Monday in October to be World Habitat Day.

The purpose

• To call attention to the need for better shelter around the world.
• To let it be known that affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere.
• To change the systems, policies and attitudes that lead to poverty housing, and involve partners in solutions.

World Habitat Day is on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.

Habitat for Humanity supporters will join with supporters of adequate shelter around the globe will participate in special activities that highlight the need for safe, decent and affordable shelter.

By advocating for universal decent housing, we seek to alter the systems that reinforce poverty housing and to make affordable housing a reality for all.

SENH with celebrate World Habitat Day with the launch of Nickels to Nails. Please see below.

In partnership with Saltwater Integrated Creative Agency (www.saltwaterco.com) SENH will celebrate World Habitat Day. Nickels for Nails is a youth-led fundraising initiative that will mobilize youth to raise funds to build homes for sponsor families in NH. The mission of the event is to educate students on the housing crisis here in New Hampshire. While at the same time raising funds to help build a home here.

How Can You Help

Make a difference through Nickels for Nails and see first-hand how donating extra change can make a life-altering difference for one deserving family. Teachers, youth group coordinators and students will receive a coin collection container for their classroom along with a guide on starting a successful fund drive. Teachers can also download curriculum plans to educate their students about the growing housing crisis and how everyone can help in the cause. The group who raises the most funds during the drive will be eligible to win a prize and be recognized by Southeast NH Habitat for Humanity.

Bike & Build raises funds for affordable housing projects

- Over ten seasons, Bike & Build has contributed more than $4M to housing groups to fund projects planned and executed by young adults; this includes more than $600,000 donated from the summer of 2012. Bike & Build hopes to donate at about this contribution level for the summer of 2013.

- Through pre-arranged gifts, Bike & Build funds affordable housing projects executed by our participants in communities where our events begin. Through our grant program, our organization identifies and supports exciting projects involving young people all throughout the nation. Bike & Build also supports local affordable housing organizations along each route through on the road donations.

Bike & Build garners media and community attention for the affordable housing cause.

- Bike & Build’s expansive national footprint allows our organization to promote the need for and importance of affordable housing in 47 states, 1 province, and hundreds of communities nationwide.

- Through print, TV media, radio, town-hall style meetings, and informal grassroots interaction, Bike & Build participants bring our organization’s message to thousands of people from all walks of life.

Every Tuesday & Wednesday night Robert’s Maine Grill, Route 1, in Kittery offers a “Community Supper” starting at 4PM. The main focus of the supper is a $14, 3 course menu – a mid-week “recession buster” offering. The menus are in the spirit of Robert’s style: Maine Comfort Food with an updated twist. Robert’s regular dinner menu is also available. To add to the community spirit of it, each Tuesday & Wednesday Robert’s donates a portion of proceeds from the evening to a local non-profit. Upcoming Community Supper menus are posted at www.robertsmainegrill.com.

The Community Suppers that will benefit Habitat For Humanity will take place February 26 & March 5, 2013. Reservations are recommended.

Download our event flyer for more information.