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3 <br />C~LEBRATiON Celebration 2000 <br />•~• <br />2000 <br /> What it is <br /> Habitat for Humanity has planned a meaningful way to celebrate the <br />HABITAT FOR HUMANITY beginning of a new millennium. We will build a new eleven home sub- <br />C4U1PEl Hll1•CARRBORO.ORANGECOl1NiY division in New Homestead Place off Rogers Road in Chapel Hill. This <br /> initiative will provide a stimulus for community involvement to create <br /> affordable housing; educate and increase awareness about poverty hous- <br /> ing and its causes; offer "a hand-up" to eleven working Orange County <br />Advisory Board families; and bring all members of Orange County together to build com- <br />• munity and new relationships for the future. <br />David Anna ' <br /> PaI'tne/Ships <br />Roger Bernholz <br />: Groups of volunteers who join together to raise funds and construct <br />Joal Broun houses are called partnerships. We need eleven new partnerships to <br /> accomplish this celebration. Habitat will reach out to include groups from <br />Margaret Brown : all segments of the community to form these diverse partnerships. Ex- <br /> amples may include African-American and white churches; University of <br />Jay Bryan : North Carolina employees, students and town's people working together; <br />• or civic groups, businesses and municipal employees. Our goal is to <br />Henry Clark create and celebrate our community's rich diversity and common goals. <br />care Fox Funding <br /> Funds will be raised from a combination of sources: corporations and <br />Joan Gillings ; small businesses; government sources; foundation grants; church and <br />• civic group contributions; and from many gifts from individuals and fami- <br />Joel Harper lies in our community. <br />Michael Hooker : Timing <br />: A public groundbreaking was celebrated in May 1998. sight partnerships <br />Eleanor Kinnaird will be confirmed and ten families selected by October 1998. Five house <br /> foundations will be readied by November 1998. The remaining three <br />Timothy Miles ; partnerships and family will be confirmed by February 1999 and the <br />• remaining siz house foundations will be readied by April 1999. Immedi- <br />• Mike Nelson ately after Labor Day we will begin construction on the last three homes <br /> with a "blitz" building of at least one home. By December 31, 1999 we <br />Melva Okun will have all eleven homes complete and families moving in. <br />Enrique Gomez Palacio How you can he/p <br /> We have many different needs, but are committed to using the gifts and <br />Robert Seymour resources of the entire community. Specifically we seek: <br />Rosemary Waldorf • corporate sponsorships <br /> • groups that will become full or partial partners <br />Richard Williams • donated building materials <br /> • land (for the future) <br />~~ Z000 many volunteers <br />P.O. Box 459 • unrestricted financial gifts. <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 732-6767 <br />