With Spring showers and new beginnings in the air, we celebrated our latest home dedication on Smith Street! This home was made possible by Perinton Congregations for Flower City Habitat for Humanity and the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation. Congrats Franchesca!

Please help us thank Youth Build Cohort #10, for their incredible work over the last 8 weeks of construction training! When they started, 226 Saxton was just a hole in the ground and now the second story subfloors are all installed!

Learn more about the Catholic Charities Family and Community Services YouthBuild program at https://www.fcscharities.org/services/employment-skills/#youthbuild

226 Saxton Street is being built through our partnership with The Builders Exchange of Rochester and Rochester Junior Builders Exchange. Learn more at https://robex.com/habitat-build/

​You can help build the 18th Women Build house in Rochester!

Since 1991, Women Build volunteers from all walks of life have come together to build stronger, safer communities with Habitat affiliates around the world. Each year in Rochester, teams of women (and a handful of men) combine their fundraising efforts and volunteer build days to make another Habitat home possible.

This year's Women Build house will be a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath new home being built at 195 Melville Street (the vacant lot shown in this picture) and you can help build it!

Fundraising is going on now and volunteering is expected to start in April. Learn how you can get involved by clicking the button below!

​For more information on the house and how to get notified when homebuyer applications open, click the button below.

It's Spring and we are getting ready for a lot more construction volunteers VERY SOON! In these photos, some of our regular volunteers built window and door frames to help with the upcoming Framing Frenzy at Rochester Institute of Technology!

RIT students can learn more at https://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/lead/connect-with-community/on-campus-service-projects

Others looking to volunteer can browse upcoming shifts at give.rochesterhabitat.org/volunteer_calendar. We currently have a lot of need for volunteers at our two ReStore locations and more construction volunteering will be available starting in April.

Starting the second story at 226 Saxton Street! Thank you YouthBuild!

This home is being built through our partnership with The Builders Exchange of Rochester and Rochester Junior Builders Exchange.  Learn more at https://robex.com/habitat-build/

Learn more about the Catholic Charities Family and Community Services YouthBuild program at https://www.fcscharities.org/services/employment-skills/#youthbuild

Saturday was a snowy day of service for RIT's Theta Psi Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi!

The day included painting, cutting and installing trim, installing storm doors, and more at 871 Smith Street and 375 Campbell Street. Thank you for building with us!
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Learn more about group volunteering at www.rochesterhabitat.org/groups

"Surprise Jae & Pito, welcome to our new home!"

What an amazing day. Despite personally building almost every week throughout construction, Natasha managed to keep her Habitat home a secret from her kids until today's dedication! Be sure to check out the livestream video (link below) for their reactions seeing the house and their new rooms!

Today's dedication was also a milestone for our affiliate and the Greater JOSANA Neighborhood, with this house being the 100th Habitat home built or renovated within a half mile of School 17!

This new home was generously sponsored by Thrivent and the Harvest Home Coalition, the fourth Habitat home they have partnered together on, raising the funds and volunteer labor needed to complete the home with Natasha. Thank you all for your partnership and hard work. Congratulations Natasha!

Subfloor done and exterior walls going up at 226 Saxton Street! Thank you, #YouthBuild!

This home is being built through our partnership with the The Builders Exchange of Rochester and Rochester Junior Builders Exchange. Learn more at https://robex.com/habitat-build/

Learn more about the Catholic Charities Family and Community Services  YouthBuild program at https://www.fcscharities.org/services/employment-skills/#youthbuild

More progress at 226 Saxton Street, thanks to YouthBuild! Floor joists are done, subfloor in progress!

This home is being built through our partnership with The Builders Exchange of Rochester and Rochester Junior Builders Exchange. Learn more at https://robex.com/habitat-build/

Learn more about the Catholic Charities Family and Community Services YouthBuild program at https://www.fcscharities.org/services/employment-skills/#youthbuild

​Learn more about our partnership with TiverBuilt, Microdesk, and the Autodesk Foundation to use Building Information Modeling (BIM) and laser scanning to revitalize homes like this one on Child Street!