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Home Sweet Home for Shelly & Max

Shelly has moved into her new Habitat home and is loving it and its location right across the street Granby Elementary School where she works and Max attends school. Here is a letter from Shelly to all our volunteers who made her dream of owning her own home become a reality. Hello My Friends, Let me start by […]

Sign Up Online to Help Build It! — Build Days and Lunches

We have implemented an online sign-up sheet system so you can sign up to work at the build site or to bring lunch on work days. Help Build It! It really helps us to know how many workers to expect at a work day.  To sign up for a specific work day, just click on […]

Dawn Cone and Heirs Donate Property to Habitat

Great news!  Habitat has received a donation of a property in Granby. Prior to his death in 2013, Dawn Cone expressed his wish to donate his Granby property to Habitat. Respecting Dawn’s wishes, his heirs, Blaine Cone and Lona Merrill, signed over the house to Habitat at the end of 2013.  Thank you so much […]

The Antonio Family Has a New Home!

The Antonio house is completed and dedicated and the family has moved in!  June 28th was the date of the closing and the dedication was the very next morning.  Now Brandon, Amanda, and Brookelyn are happily settled into their new home. From the groundbreaking in May 2012 to excavation that August and through June 28th,  […]

Dreaming of a Home of Your Own?

Habitat for Humanity of Grand County is accepting applications for our next Habitat house – our 11th Habitat home in Grand County. How Do You Qualify for a Habitat House? To qualify for a Habitat house you must: • Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; • Have sufficient income to be able to pay […]

Safety is Habitat’s #1 Concern for Volunteers

That’s why the Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Insurance Program has designed an Online Safety Course just for Volunteers. This course is a very effective training tool for volunteers prior to volunteer day. It’s easy to use… takes just 30 minutes to complete… and empowers you with the safety knowledge you need to be an effective […]

Habitat Builds Around the World

As an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, we regularly donate 10% of the unrestricted funds we receive to Habitat’s work to provide housing for families in other countries. With these tithes we have helped more than 18 families in such countries as Guatemala, Zambia, Botswana, and Haiti obtain simple, affordable, decent homes. Our most […]

Bailey House Completed!

Another dream comes true… Thanks to your support, a terrific young family in Grand County now has a home of their own and a healthy, stable environment for their sons.  Click here to see a slide show of building the house. Please be patient with the download.  Depending on your connection speed, it may take […]

Breaking the Finish Line…Tying the Knot

June 19 was their wedding day and much to our delight Libby Brown and Parks Thomson decided that they would begin their special day by running the 2010 Habitat Hobble. Libby and Parks and their entire wedding party – a total of 15 people – ran the Hobble sporting bright blue t-shirts reading “Breaking the […]

Many Thanks to Our Supporters

Habitat could not build our houses without the generous support of our donors and funding agencies and of our dedicated volunteers. Foundations, local governments and area churches provided funds without which we could not build our Habitat houses. Many thanks to those who supported us in 2013 and those who are supporting us as we […]