Our Mission
Mission and Vision
Habitat views its work as successful when lives are transformed and when positive and lasting social, economic, and spiritual change is promoted within a community: Authentic transformation changes the lives of all who participate: those who need housing, volunteers, advocates, donors, and development practitioners.
Our Motivation
Habitat for Humanity has been building homes, communities and hope through direct engagement for four decades. As powerful as that has been, some 1.6 billion people still live in inadequate housing and 100 million others have no home at all. This challenges us to become more effective catalysts for systematic change- change the will help exponentially more families than any one organization ever could serve alone. To affect the housing deficit at scale, the plan calls for operating with impact in three interconnected spheres of influence: community, sector and society.
Building Community Impact
Direct engagement: The foundation for these changes begins with continued direct engagement with families and communities, demonstrating what is possible when people from all segments of society work together to address the problem of poverty and housing.
Building Sector Impact
Through similar direct engagement with the broader housing sector, Habitat can influence the way others in the public and nonprofit worlds think about housing issues and how to address them. By promoting approaches that assist low-income families themselves, we in turn help drive the market for housing related financing and housing improvement services and products accessible to the poor. Because enabling public policies also are essential in increasing access to affordable housing, the plan challenges us to promote policies and systems that eliminate restraints contributing to poverty and inadequate housing. In seeking truly transformed communities, Habitat West Bay and Northern RI views bringing people together not only as a way to deliver a product improved housing as an essential process for building hope and believe that healthier communities are achievable and beneficial for all. When we work together, statistics become faces with names, stereotypes are broken, and everyone has the opportunity both to give and receive. Only then is lasting change likely to occur.
Societal Impact
Habitat for Humanity advances its ability to expand awareness of housing as a critical foundation for eliminating barriers to a better, healthier, more financially stable life when we successfully mobilize volunteers for the cause of affordable housing. Volunteer support not only raises walls, but also backing for public policy and market changes that can lead to even broader impact. In the course of uniting around improved housing for all, personal transformation occurs in all, turning both individuals and the process itself into powerful conduits for demonstrating God's love.
Habitat views its work as successful when lives are transformed and when positive and lasting social, economic, and spiritual change is promoted within a community: Authentic transformation changes the lives of all who participate: those who need housing, volunteers, advocates, donors, and development practitioners.
Our Motivation
Habitat for Humanity has been building homes, communities and hope through direct engagement for four decades. As powerful as that has been, some 1.6 billion people still live in inadequate housing and 100 million others have no home at all. This challenges us to become more effective catalysts for systematic change- change the will help exponentially more families than any one organization ever could serve alone. To affect the housing deficit at scale, the plan calls for operating with impact in three interconnected spheres of influence: community, sector and society.
Building Community Impact
Direct engagement: The foundation for these changes begins with continued direct engagement with families and communities, demonstrating what is possible when people from all segments of society work together to address the problem of poverty and housing.
Building Sector Impact
Through similar direct engagement with the broader housing sector, Habitat can influence the way others in the public and nonprofit worlds think about housing issues and how to address them. By promoting approaches that assist low-income families themselves, we in turn help drive the market for housing related financing and housing improvement services and products accessible to the poor. Because enabling public policies also are essential in increasing access to affordable housing, the plan challenges us to promote policies and systems that eliminate restraints contributing to poverty and inadequate housing. In seeking truly transformed communities, Habitat West Bay and Northern RI views bringing people together not only as a way to deliver a product improved housing as an essential process for building hope and believe that healthier communities are achievable and beneficial for all. When we work together, statistics become faces with names, stereotypes are broken, and everyone has the opportunity both to give and receive. Only then is lasting change likely to occur.
Societal Impact
Habitat for Humanity advances its ability to expand awareness of housing as a critical foundation for eliminating barriers to a better, healthier, more financially stable life when we successfully mobilize volunteers for the cause of affordable housing. Volunteer support not only raises walls, but also backing for public policy and market changes that can lead to even broader impact. In the course of uniting around improved housing for all, personal transformation occurs in all, turning both individuals and the process itself into powerful conduits for demonstrating God's love.
All are Welcome
Habitat for Humanity West Bay and Northern Rhode Island has an open-door policy: All who believe that everyone needs a decent, affordable place to live are welcome to help with the work, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, political views or any of the other distinctions that too often divide people. In short, Habitat welcomes volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds and also serves people in need of decent housing regardless of race or religion. As a matter of policy, Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliated organizations do not proselytize. This means that Habitat will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must either adhere to or convert to a particular faith, or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.
