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BUILDING COMMUNITIES ONE HOUSE AT A TIME
1991 --- Solano Habitat for Humanity (SHFH) was founded by a grass-roots group of Solano County residents dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in their community.
1994 --- The first Solano Habitat house, a duplex, is completed in Fairfield.
1995 --- Solano Habitat for Humanity refurbishes a house in Vallejo.
1996 --- SHFH first Blitz Build takes place in Vallejo. The Habitat house is completed and occupied in less than one month.
1998 --- A duplex in Vacaville is completed.
2000 --- A part-time Executive Director is hired to help refocus the organizational activities of SHFH.
2002--- Napa County is added to SHFHs service area.
SHFH moved into its first Office building in Suisun.
Capital to Communities Build in Benicia is completed. This build has the unique attention of representatives from both Houses of Congress: U.S. Senator for California, Barbara Boxer and Congressional Representative George Miller.
A full-time Executive Director is hired to provide full time managerial oversight.
2003 --- Two AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers join SHFH.
2004 --- Completed our third house in Fairfield
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Started a duet construction on Rocky Hill, Vacaville
2005 --- Name was changed in July to Solano Napa
Habitat for Humanity to better reflect the areas
served.
2006 --- Another duplex in Vacaville is
completed.
By 2010, SNHFH hopes to increase its construction to 22 houses per year. This is equivalent to two homes per community in Solano and Napa Counties per year. Currently, the volume of funding must be
expanded to reach this goal. Funds are collected from personal gifts, church and civic support, corporate donations, grants and fundraisers.
Solano Habitat for Humanity (SNHFH) is a nonprofit, Christian organization dedicated to the elimination of substandard housing in Napa and Solano Counties.
SNHFH unites people in need with people of resources
to build simple, decent and affordable houses.
The houses are sold at cost, with no-interest loans. Habitat was founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller. Habitat has built more than 135,000 houses and has affiliates in 60 countries worldwide.
Updated Dec 20, 2006
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