Who We Are
MISSION AND VALUES
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
Vision Statement: A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Mission Statement: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY
Our Core Values:
Service: To serve our Partner Families, each other, and every variety of “volunteer” assisting us in ways that demonstrate God’s love in action. Service is our first concern.
Safety: To always provide for the ultimate safety and well-being of the families we serve, as well as all who assist in us in serving them. This is our first obligation of service.
Community: To encourage and support a spirit of community and team work within and beyond our ranks, knowing that we are many members of one serving body. This is our foundation of service.
Collaboration: To pro-actively ally ourselves with others who help advance our mission and advocate for the reduction of substandard housing. This increases our capacity of service.
Diversity: To operate in ways that respect individual differences and bring out the best in each other’s gifts, talents, brilliance, and creativity. This enlarges our capacity for service.
Higher Expectations: To employ the power of belief and high expectations to increase the likelihood of successful outcomes for our families, our partners, and ourselves. This amplifies our potential for serving.
Stewardship: To be responsible stewards of all our resources and assets, tangible and intangible, including our good name, acting with complete honesty and integrity at all times. Nothing less will do for service that works to demonstrate God’s love in action.
Competence: To serve effectively and credibly based on competence in all areas of operation marked by a dedication to quality, professionalism, continuous learning, and continuous experimentation. This is synonymous with service.
What We Do
BUILDING STRENGTH, STABILITY AND SELF-RELIANCE THROUGH SHELTER
With a philosophy of “a hand up, not a hand out,” a phrase coined by President Jimmy Carter, Habitat Forsyth makes it possible for local families to achieve strength and stability that comes from owning safe, decent, affordable housing.
Through partnering with Habitat, families are able to experience the joys that come with a home: the security of owning rather than renting; the comfort of knowing one’s neighbors and seeing children play in their yards; the stability of putting down roots in a community; and the long-term investment that helps build personal wealth.
The Habitat model assists local hard-working families who do not qualify for traditional mortgages to become homeowners. After meeting certain income, credit and rental history qualifications, our future Habitat homeowners attend financial education and home ownership/maintenance classes. They earn 300 to 400 social engagement or “sweat equity” hours by helping build or remodel their own homes or those of others and serve as volunteers with Habitat or in the community. Upon closing on the home, they begin paying an affordable mortgage back to Habitat, which allows us to help more families.
Since 1985, we’ve used this proven model of success that we call Neighborhood Revitalization and have fundamentally changed lives for 350+ families by making them new homeowners. Another 80+ families, elderly, and veterans have been served with home repairs to ensure they safely age in place or have a more secure home, and thousands others through our home maintenance trainings, partnerships, community cleanups, and work with neighborhood associations. In this way, Habitat is reviving entire neighborhoods, street by street and block by block. Strong and stable homes help build s
