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Rural Housing Volunteer Opportunities: Creating Sustainable Partnerships

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Rural Housing Volunteer Opportunities Guide CoverRural Housing Volunteer Opportunities: Creating Sustainable Partnerships is a valuable reference tool, providing Home Depot store associates with information about local organizations engaged in rural housing development activities. With profiles from over 300 rural housing organizations nationwide, the guide provides Home Depot store employees with the information they need to identify housing related volunteer opportunities where their specific skills and knowledge can be used.

Rural Housing Volunteer Opportunities Guide CoverAcross rural America, local nonprofit organizations are working to meet the housing needs of low- and moderate-income residents. This work is often enhanced by generous contributions of time, money, and skills from civic-minded community volunteers. Volunteers understand that we all have the ability to help make the world a better place. In collaboration with the Home Depot Foundation, the Housing Assistance Council has assembled Rural Housing Volunteer Opportunities: Creating Sustainable Partnerships as a way to connect Home Depot store associates with volunteer opportunities with rural housing developers across the nation.

Rural Housing Volunteer Opportunities: Creating Sustainable Partnerships is a valuable reference tool, providing Home Depot store associates with information about local organizations engaged in rural housing development activities. With profiles from over 300 rural housing organizations nationwide, the guide provides Home Depot store employees with the information they need to identify housing related volunteer opportunities where their specific skills and knowledge can be used.

The guide is separated by state and includes a map of each state with Home Depot store locations and rural housing nonprofits clearly indicated. Also highlighted are those organizations that are currently using green building techniques. Each listing includes contact information for the nonprofit organization, an organizational profile, and information about specific volunteer opportunities.

The nonprofit organizations listed offer a range of available volunteer opportunities, including:

  • Participation in community build or rehabilitation projects
  • Board membership
  • Donation of materials or funds
  • Teaching “how-to workshops”

There are many ways that you can make a difference. We encourage you to use this guide as a starting point to creating long lasting partnerships with local nonprofit organizations. Together, we can build stronger rural communities.

Spring 2006: CDBG Works for Rural Communities

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Access a pdf version of Rural Voices.

  • View from Washington: The State Community Development Block Grant Turns 25
  • Survey Shows Negative Effect of Cuts to CDBG
  • The Ultimate Recycling Project
  • CDBG Revitalizes Towns and Small Cities in Kentucky
  • Taking Steps to Assist Rural Communities
  • Creating Infrastructure in the Border Colonias
  • The Sunnybrooke Housing Production Project
  • Following a Roadmap to Community Success
  • “If Not for CDBG…”
  • CDBG QUICKS

Winter 2005 – 06: After the Disaster: Rural Communities Respond

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Access a pdf version of Rural Voices.

  • Revisiting Buffalo Creek
  • From a Brownfi eld to a Brighter Future
  • Laying the Groundwork for Success
  • Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
  • Pulling Together: Rural and Urban Communities Respond
  • When Communities Own Their Way of Life and Shape Their Future
  • View from Washington: Hurricane Katrina: Federal Policy Update

Fall 2005: Rural Housing Goes GREEN

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Access a pdf version of Rural Voices.

  • Demystifying Green Building and its Cost
  • Green Communities Initiative Demonstrates Challenges and Successes for Rural Developers
  • Getting Started on Green Affordable Housing
  • Green Building Techniques: Land Planning and Site Development
  • Green Building Techniques: Use of Materials
  • Green Building Techniques: Resource Conservation
  • Green Building Techniques: Energy Efficiency
  • Green Building Techniques: Healthy Homes

Easing the Transition: Housing Assistance for TANF Recipients

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Easing the Transition: Housing Assistance for TANF Recipients
Print copy: $5.00
Identifies specific obstacles rural welfare leavers face when they search for affordable housing and describes how states have addressed these obstacles.
2005, 32 pages, ISBN 1-58064-138-5

Creating the Village: How Mutual Self-Help Housing Builds Community

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Creating the Village: How Mutual Self-Help Housing Builds Community
Print copy: $5.00
Describes how mutual self-help construction does more than simply build affordable homes: it builds neighborhoods, strengthens families, and creates wealth.
2005, 40 pages, ISBN 1-58064-139-3

Summer 2005: Farmworker Housing: Turning Challenges into Successes

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Access a pdf version of Rural Voices.

  • Farm Labor Housing: An Overview
  • Farmworker Housing Summit Inspires Collaboration
  • From Services to Housing: Meeting the Needs of Midwest Farmworkers
  • Successful Farmworker Housing Goes Beyond Roofs and Walls
  • Rural Neighborhoods Learns Ways to House Unaccompanied Workers
  • Changing Partners: Shifting Paradigms in Housing
  • Jonathan Court: A Portrait of Patience and Perseverance

Springr 2005: Telling Our Story: Marketing Affordable Housing

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Access a pdf version of Rural Voices.

  • Understanding Public Opinion on Low-Income Housing: A Report from Recent Polling
  • Changing Perceptions and Fostering Ideas: Language and Communications Matter
  • Working to Change the Public’s Opinion of Affordable Housing: Minnesota Housing Partnership
  • Educating the Nation about Housing Needs: The Campaign for Affordable Housing
  • Developing a National Campaign about Rural Needs: Stand Up for Rural America
  • Advocating for Change: The Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina
  • Partnering to Recruit Residents and to Advocate for Affordable Housing: CHISPA
  • Showing Families the Possibilities: Marquette County Habitat for Humanity
  • Selling to Funders and Your Community: Stop Abusive Family Environments, Inc.
  • Humanizing the Issues: Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union
  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: RURAL AMERICA NEEDS CDBG

Homeownership as an Asset in Rural America

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Homeownership as an Asset in Rural America

A home is the largest asset most Americans and in particular low- and moderate-income households will ever own. During the nation’s recent economic downturn, the overall housing market has remained remarkably strong. Current instabilities in some investment sources have increased the attention to homeownership as a means of wealth accumulation.

They Paved Paradise . . . Gentrification in Rural Communities

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They Paved Paradise . . . Gentrification in Rural Communities
Print copy: $5.00
Examines the dynamics of gentrification and its impact on housing affordability in rural communities, using case studies illustrating urban sprawl, in-migration of people attracted by natural amenities, and in-migration of retirees.
2005, 57 pages, ISBN 1-58064-136-9

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