This month, we’re reading Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise by Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America, which is one of our partner organizations in the Team Up initiative and an ongoing supporter of Pikes Peak Habitat’s work. (Check out this video they created spotlighting our Faith in Action Program Manager […]
Interfaith Dialogue Focuses on Neighborliness
This is Part I of a three-part series on the interfaith dialogue. What do diverse faith traditions say about neighborliness? That was the question at the forefront of Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity’s 3rd Interfaith Dialogue, “Who Is Your Neighbor?,” held on the UCCS campus on Sunday, Feb. 4, as part of our observance of […]
ICYMI: Pi Beta Phi Alumnae, Volunteers Collaborate to Create Library for Pikes Peak Habitat Neighborhood
From the Winter 2024 newsletter Thanks to a Rotary Club connection and a handy volunteer, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity neighborhood at The Ridge at Sand Creek has a little library. “We were just talking about ideas we could do in the community, and a little library was brought up,” explains Sam Chapman, a […]
ICYMI: ReStore South Loves Our Volunteers!
From the Winter 2024 print newsletter: In honor of the ReStore South’s 20th anniversary, we’re spotlighting some of the dedicated volunteers who make it possible for us to fulfill our mission. Mary Banner “I’m a miniaturist, and my husband worked with [first ReStore manager] John Veteto when they started it, and so we thought it […]
ICYMI: First Gingerbread Village Event Combines Fun, Festivity, and Fundraising
From the Winter 2024 print newsletter This holiday season, Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity held our Gingerbread Home Build for the fifth time. For this fun competition, groups decorate a gingerbread home, then raise funds in the form of “votes” for their completed home. Proceeds benefit our Veterans Build home. This year, we decided to […]
Celebrating 20 years of the ReStore South
On Jan. 17, we marked a special occasion: the 20th anniversary of our ReStore South! We celebrated with festive balloon arches, cake for staff and volunteers — and a 20-day sale that runs through Feb. 5! Customers can receive 20% off a single item (including new/purchased product with orange tags, but excluding bulk and bundle […]
Read with Pikes Peak Habitat: Race for Profit
To honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and as part of our Building the Beloved Community initiative, we’re reading the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Award Longlist title Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Last year, we read Richard Rothstein’s The Color of […]
What’s a home recycle?
This weekend, Pikes Peak Habitat is holding a groundbreaking in our community at The Ridge at Sand Creek. One of the future homeowners we’re celebrating is Gilas, who, along with her 12-year-old son, will move into a recycled home in a different Pikes Peak Habitat neighborhood, Woodmen Vistas. If you aren’t familiar with a recycled […]
Meet Habitat Paraguay!
Chloe Henry, Pikes Peak Habitat’s Faith in Action program manager, recently returned from a Habitat Global Village trip to Paraguay. The affiliate there is celebrating its 25th anniversary, so in addition to helping build a home for a local family, group participants had the chance to visit some of the communities where Habitat Paraguay is […]
Year in Review spotlights progress in affordable, attainable homeownership initiatives
Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity has just released our Year in Review publication (PDF), covering fiscal year ’23. The publication features numbers, but it also showcases some of the faces behind those numbers — people who partner with us, volunteer their time, serve as board and committee members, and work every day to advance affordable, […]