Category: Stories
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MLK Build 2023!
Habitat Chesapeake celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023 by building a more equitable future with Clark Construction’s MLK Day Build!
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Home for the Holidays 2022 – Welcome, Whitney!
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Habitat Chesapeake welcomes new homebuyer Whitney and her family to the Belair-Edison neighborhood of Baltimore
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HabiCorps Kickoff 2022 – Meet & Greet with the Trainees!
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Welcoming the 2022-2023 HabiCorps Workforce Trainees! On a chilly morning in November, the quiet neighborhood around Ward Street was filled with the sounds of friendly chatter as Habitat Chesapeake staff, government partners, and neighbors gathered to meet the 2022 class of HabiCorps Workforce Development trainees as they began their daily work.
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Coming Home Cornerstone Society Donor Reception 2022
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On October 26, 2022 Habitat Chesapeake was honored to bring together volunteers, partner organizations, sponsors, homebuyers, and HabiCorps alums to celebrate four decades of growth and service. Hosted at the historic Clifton Mansion in East Baltimore, guests mingled as dusk fell and our most dedicated partners shared their stories from the past 40 years emphasizing…
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Congratulations, Graduates!
Congratulations to the 2022 HabiCorps Graduates! Among the congratulations of friends, family, and staff, the 2021-2022 cohort of the HabiCorps Workforce Development program celebrated graduating in late August at Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake headquarters.
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Fall Build with Stanley Black & Decker
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Celebrating the changing of the seasons with Fall Build, featuring Stanley Black & Decker! Longtime Habitat Chesapeake partner Stanley Black & Decker joined Habitat staff onsite for two weeks in August and September for Fall Build 2022. Groups of 10-20 volunteers came out to Ward Street, located in Pigtown, Southwest Baltimore for eight days to…
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Building with Our Home Team, the Orioles!
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Habitat Chesapeake is teaming up with the Orioles to help build several homes in Southwest Baltimore! Throughout July, September, and October, Orioles staff and players joined our construction team onsite in Pigtown, just a few blocks from Camden Yards.
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Beyond the Build: Johns Hopkins Hosts Habitat Seminar
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Last month, the Johns Hopkins campus chapter of Habitat Young Professionals hosted the first-ever “Beyond the Build” seminar event, which aims to highlight critical housing issues informed by the intersection of race, wealth, history, and socioeconomics. This spring’s seminar highlighted a local author and journalist, Lawrence Lanahan, and his work, “The Lines Between Us.”
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Greening the Community with LiveGreen
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Last month, Habitat Chesapeake staff, volunteers, AmeriCorps and HabiCorps members came together in the Woodbourne-McCabe neighborhood to clean up a lot located next to a Habitat home. The lot also sits alongside the Glenwood Life Recovery Garden, a plot where patients from the Glenwood Life program can grow flowers and vegetables for therapeutic benefits.
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5 Years: Happy HabiCorps Reunion!
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This AmeriCorps Service Week, we’re highlighting some of the AmeriCorps service members that work with Habitat Chesapeake to bring affordable homeownership to more communities and families across Central Maryland.
