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Celebrate National Women Build Week!
Special
Mother's Day Weekend Women Build!
Saturday May 10th, 2008
What better way to honor Mother than to help build a home for a
hardworking, deserving Mom!
A special Women Build Day is planned for May 10th, Mother’s Day
Weekend, to correspond with Habitat for Humanity International
and Lowes National Women Build Week, which is in celebration of
the compassion, dedication, talents and abilities of women from
all walks of life. Lowe’s, a national Women Build sponsor, is
giving $5000 to 150 Habitat affiliates that hold Women Build
days that week, and we are one of the lucky affiliates, joining
other habitat chapters as we work on Lowes Women Build Day.
Bring your mother, daughter, sister, friend or just yourself to
join other Women as we build in honor of all Mothers.
Collect pledges or donations in honor or memory of mothers.
Dedications to mothers or other women will be written on studs
to be installed in our Women Build house. Printable Mother’s Day
Cards will be emailed to you to share your gift with those you
are honoring. Cards will also be made available for you to
provide to your sponsors for their donation in honor of a
Mother. Register, collect at least $50 in pledges, ($100 earns
you a Women Build t-shirt or hat) and help us build houses for
four mothers.
To register and more information on the May 10th workday
click here.
Women
Build Project Overview
Women Build challenges
women to build a better future for the children of central New
Jersey by addressing the problem of substandard housing. Why?
- More than half of RVHFH
partner families are headed by women.
- Women Build lets women
use their skills to give other women and their families a
“hand up” by helping them to build a home of their own.
- Women Build gives women
the opportunity to learn construction and home maintenance
skills from other women in a supportive environment.
This
Spring's Women Build Day involves the construction of 4
Habitat homes on Girard Ave. in Franklin Township, Somerset.
Women
Build Workday Program
The Women Build Workday
program is designed to help raise funds for Women Build while
giving individual women an opportunity to volunteer as part of
the Women Build effort. During our first 9 Women Build workdays, more than 225 women from Hunterdon and Somerset counties
joined together to help build modest, affordable homes for hard
working, low income families in Lambertville, Bernardsville &
Franklin Township
--- and raised over $48,000 in the process!
Now we're looking
to fully fund our next RVHFH Women Build house located in
Franklin Township (Somerset). We must raise $100,000 to build
this house! Our first workday on November 3, 2007 raised
almost $12,000 toward this goal!
Participating is easy---just collect at least $50 in pledges,
then join us in Franklin Twp. for a great day on the work site.
Ask your
friends, co-workers, relatives, or neighbors to sponsor you.
You’ll find that many people don’t have the time or desire to
volunteer, but are willing to give their financial support for
Habitat’s affordable housing mission. Remember, RVHFH relies
entirely on private contributions to cover our construction
expenses. Proceeds from the Women Build Workday program will
help cover the cost of land, construction materials, tools and
supervision on the Women Build project If you prefer
not to raise pledges, just submit your registration with a $50
registration fee (waived for those raising at least $50 in
pledges).
To
make Women Build a success, we need your help!
Please join us!
To participate, please do the
following:
1)
Register now
by sending an email to
officemgr@rvhabitat.org
or calling 908.704.0016 .
And we'll send you
a registration packet. (Please include your name,
address & phone number)
2)
Begin soliciting
pledges. Sample Donation
Request Letter Everyone collecting $100 or more will
receive a Women Build T-Shirt or Hat!
3)
Confirm your
registration by April 18th.
This is important because we can only
accommodate 30 women onsite on May 10th. To confirm your registration, submit a copy of
your registration/pledge form showing at least $50 in pledges,
or submit the form together with a $50 registration fee (waived
for those raising at least $50 in pledges)
4)
Arrive at the worksite at 8:30 am on
May 10th with ALL your pledges!
5)
Any outstanding
pledges must be received by May 28th to qualify for prizes.
Thank
you for supporting Women Build
Together, we can build a better future.
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