Volunteers make Habitat’s mission of building homes, communities, and hope possible. While many people will build one time through their workplace, church, or civic organization, some keep coming out to the build site to give their time and talent for our homebuyers. These are volunteers like Brian McGreer. Brian receives…

With the start of a new year, we reflect back on all that happened in 2019. What a packed year it was! We had over 6,900 individuals volunteer with us in 2019. Not to mention, 4,445 of those volunteers came out and built with us for the very first time!…

You’re really doing this. You’re going to sign up to volunteer in the middle of winter because you are a winter warrior! You’ve signed up for your build day and you know where you’re going, so now what? Greater Indy Habitat builds rain or shine (or snow!) so use these…

Our mission centers around creating comprehensive community development. We realize that we are at our strongest when working alongside the strength of others to improve the quality of life for members of our community. Each year we engage hundreds of companies, faith-based organizations, and other community-based groups, along with thousands…

Q3 at Greater Indy Habitat was a packed one! We had over 3,600 volunteers come out and build with us and built two homes in 14 days at the Indiana State Fair. Our volunteers braved the summer heat and put in some incredibly hard work alongside our homebuyers putting in…

Here at Greater Indy Habitat, we had a strong finish to our second quarter of 2019. In Q2 we built almost 400 wall panels for future homes and handed over the keys to five new homeowners who successfully completed their 300 hours of sweat equity, building their homes alongside volunteers….

This May, our volunteer spotlight is on Tracy Ingersoll. Tracy, Women Builder and Homebuyer Mentor, shares her insight and experience as a volunteer for Greater Indy Habitat. The Women Build program was established to encourage the involvement of women in the construction of Habitat homes. What advice would you give…

We are officially a quarter of the way through 2019 and a lot of exciting things are in the works here at Greater Indy Habitat. We currently have 16 families working their way through our spring semester of homeownership class, accumulating their 300 hours of sweat equity in the classroom…