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Updates from the Volunteer Recognition Team
Your volunteer experience is important to us! We are striving to ensure that our commitment to you is as much at the forefront of our everyday operations as yours is to us. Building consistency with our volunteer engagement and growing our volunteer program in a way that fits…
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Journey with Habitat: Nate’s Co-Op Experience with HFHHM
Hi. My name is Nate. Nate Burguete. And I am a co-op student at Habitat. It’s as simple as that. But things weren’t always that simple… On Friday May 26th at 9:49am I got a text from my co-op teacher telling me that the Manager of Volunteers…
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Summer Student Profile: Meet Nicole Fratesi
Snap, crackle, pop. A digital marketer by day and a social media manager by night, Nicole Fratesi does it all. But wouldn’t you want to know what is included in the “all” that she does? Well, today is your lucky day. We’re pulling out all the stops. Here…
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DIY Rustic Barn Wood with Sherian Groppini at the ReVive Centre
It’s the middle of a corporate DIY day at the Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga ReVive Centre, and people are huddled around a long rectangular table. The wooden chairs and tables they’ve been repurposing—sanding and painting a sleek black—are around the room in various stages of completion. Up until this point…
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Bartell Global helping Habitat lay a foundation upon which families can build a new life
In 1946, Art Bartell opened the doors of a small machine tool and die shop, simply named Bartell. Working in the concrete industry and realizing that the equipment available at the time wasn’t meeting the needs of the job, he decided to start his own business and make the…
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Summer Student Profile: Meet Sherina Harris
Ever wondered what it would be like to be a Communications Assistant at Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga who enjoys blogging and loves cats? Well you’re about get an exclusive inside scoop. Sherina Harris is a journalism student who has a great personality and a full-on passion for…
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A Message To Our Volunteers
Although National Volunteer Week has come to an end, here at Habitat we like to thank our volunteers every chance we get! Our volunteers are the foundation of our organization. From picking up a hammer, unloading trucks in a ReStore warehouse, or designing new advertisements, our volunteers are there…
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What to Give Someone Who Has Everything
Everyone has that someone (or a few someones) who is a gift-giving challenge. Birthdays, Christmases, anniversaries — every year it’s a struggle to find the right thing to show your friend or loved one just how special they are to you. Let Habitat for Humanity help! Your…
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A Family Volunteers Together and Grows Together
It’s hard to chat and hammer, Linos Frantzeskakis says, but he and his two kids have managed to work in some conversations and laughs on Habitat build sites. They’ve also bonded. “We’ve had a good time and a valuable time, doing something together to help someone else,” says…