It’s hard to believe, but our affiliate has been building homes in Hampshire and Franklin counties since 1989! Three homes are nearing completion in Northampton this summer, one more broke ground in Greenfield last week, and another in Northampton is coming soon this summer!
This year, being our 35th anniversary year, we want to talk about Legacies. Legacies take many shapes and come from many origins. The work we are doing here today at Pioneer Valley Habitat was born 35 years ago with a rugged group of dedicated volunteers (check out some of their stories linked below). That legacy continues today with hundreds of volunteers still giving their time annually to provide decent, low cost housing for people unable to afford to buy a home in today’s market.
You can help continue that legacy. In honor of our 35th anniversary as an organization, we invite you to join Pioneer Valley Habitat’s Framing the Future Legacy Society by including us in your estate planning. Designating an estate gift today toward Habitat’s future can make an impact you could never imagine tomorrow. Bequests that come to our local Habitat are nothing less than game-changing, allowing us to create more opportunities for families to build and buy their first homes. We are honored to have been the recipient of generous legacy gifts in the past ten years. These gifts have been pivotal for this small organization, allowing us to make leaps forward that would otherwise take years. And while on the surface we build homes, what we are really building together is the future of our community and the families who live here, one family at a time.
To further honor of our 35th anniversary as an organization, we wanted to get back to the roots of Habitat for Humanity in Hampshire & Franklin counties, and celebrate those whose work made the last 35 years possible. While there are countless more volunteers, donors, and community supporters than those showcased here, these five were each part of pivotal moments in PVHH’s history, from establishing the first Board of Directors to hiring the first employee.
