At Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity, we’ve transitioned to building homes that are fully electric (rather than relying on a combination of electricity and natural gas). We’ve made this shift for multiple reasons–to make homes safer, keep utility bills lower for our homeowners, and focus on more sustainable energy. But that raises questions Pikes Peak […]
ICYMI: Beloved Construction Supervisor Gary Blake Retires
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2024 print newsletter. This spring, Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity is saying a bittersweet farewell to construction supervisor Gary Blake, who has been with the organization since 2010. Blake is retiring — and moving out of state — so while we wish him and his wife the best […]
Catching up with Karmen
When Colorado Springs Utilities staff volunteered to landscape two Pikes Peak Habitat homes recently, they were joined by a future Pikes Peak homeowner who will be living next door to the yard she was helping beautify! Karmen, our 4th Veterans Build homeowner, was working on sweat equity hours that day. Her own home […]
Colorado Springs Utilities Partners with Pikes Peak Habitat for Water-wise Landscaping
On May 20, employees from Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) came out to the Pikes Peak Habitat construction site at The Ridge at Sand Creek for a special volunteer day. “Not only did they help us come up with some great alternatives for landscaping,” says Eric Wells, Pikes Peak Habitat’s construction superintendent, “but they want to […]
Team Depot in Action
Volunteers from The Home Depot Foundation got busy this week and built a new playground for Abrams Elementary on Fort Carson with KaBOOM!, a nonprofit that provides playgrounds to schools nationwide. Not only did they build a playground created with input from students and designed to meet handicapped-accessible standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act, […]
It Takes a Village… by Kris Lewis
It takes a village…. to create “a world where everyone has a decent place to live.” In May, it was a “village” of Pikes Peak Habitat Global Village volunteers with a trip to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Together, the Pikes Peak Habitat volunteers, the future homeowner, and three Trinidadian construction site […]
Women Build 2017
Thanks to all the Volunteers that came out to help us kick off Women Build Week 2017 this past Saturday!
Make a Global Impact
In October 2015, I traveled to Budapest, Hungary as part of a Habitat Global Village team. My team worked on the future home of Gabor, a homeless Hungarian man. Each day of our trip, Gabor rode his bicycle to our construction site from his cardboard shanty. Upon his arrival, he donned his hard hat, picked […]
Youth Training Program
Pikes Peak Habitat is working with students from Harrison School District 2 on our construction site as part of their Career Readiness Academy. Atlas Prep Charter School is building sheds for our homeowners, too. These ventures allow at-risk students age 16 and older an opportunity to learn from our construction staff and experience hands-on job […]