Meeting Sponsor for Sept. 9, 2013
Posted by Kenneth Cross
on Sep 11, 2013
Sacramento Habitat for Humanity CEO Ken Cross shared the following about Habitat for Humanity:
• Vision: A world where everyone has a safe, decent place to call home.
• Mission: Sacramento Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to put love into action by bringing people together to build hope, homes and communities.
• An ecumenical Christian ministry founded in 1976, locally since 1985 serving the County of Sacramento.
• Targets low-income families that would not qualify for a conventional home loan.
• Families put in 500 hours of their own “sweat equity” to build their home working with local volunteers.
• Sell the home to the family at cost with a zero %, 30-year mortgage.
• MYTH: “We give homes away” – NO! Families pay mortgage, taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance costs!
• Give families a “hand up, not a handout”!
• 96 homes completed in 28 years - Zero (0) foreclosures!
• Tithe from our “unrestricted dollars” to build overseas.
• Built an additional 206 homes overseas for a total of 302 homes built worldwide over last 28 years
• Habitat is located in all 50 states (over 1,500 affiliates) and almost 80 countries.
• Built over 600,000 homes for over 3.0 Million people around the world.
• Complete a home somewhere in the world, on average, every 6 minutes!
• Next Home Dedication: 10:00 a.m. Sat., Sept. 14th at 3530 10th Avenue in Oak Park!
• Rotary Brown Bag luncheon: – Monday, Sept. 30th @ 819 North 10th Street north of Richards Blvd.
• Thank you to Larry Cassidy for sponsoring Sacramento HFH.