IVHFH's 13th Women Build is in honor of Mary Mascher! Former Iowa State Representative and Iowa City Community School District teacher, Mary will lead the Women Build committee to raise funds and recruit volunteers to support an IVHFH home build and a Helping Hands home repair this year. The full steering committee met for the first time last week and quickly began planning details for the first ever IVHFH Women Build Week! Help kick off the Mary Mascher Women Build April 23-29! First up-our Frame-A-Thon! Get involved right away by decoraing a 2'x4' board or stud that will frame the Women Build home this fall.

The Jane Hagedorn Women Build home is complete but we need your help for some final touches! Volunteers are needed to lay sod and complete related tasks.

Decorate a 2'x4' board for the Women Build home at our Frame Decorating Party! You can also pick up a stud from the Habitat office, decorate it, and return it to IVHFH. Consider a donation to sponsor your 2'x4'!

Join the Women Build committee and future homeowners, Etienne and Romance, and their children as we break ground at the site of the 13th Women Build home. 

Recently there’s been a new face around the IVHFH office. Regina Ash-Moore joined the team last November as a bookkeeper and graciously sat down with us for a brief interview.

The AmeriCorps program is recruiting for a summer position with our affiliate! If you know someone interested in serving on our construction team this summer, send them our way!

Habitat for Humanity of Iowa's AmeriCorps Program offers members the ability to learn, serve, and give back to the community by building houses, managing volunteers, and engaging homeowners at local Habitat for Humanities across the state of Iowa. 

The team at the Coralville Hyatt Regency recently contacted us to make a generous donation of furniture and appliances! We were thrilled to receive a truckload of quality pieces that were quickly turned into purchases at the Iowa City ReStore! Thanks, Coralville Hyatt Regency! Donations from partners like you ensure we can build homes and improve shelter for neighbors right here in our community!

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Through the American Rescue Plan Act, Johnson County has designated funds for emergency home repairs to be carried out by IVHFH. This award makes critical funding available to aid our Emergency Repair and Major Appliance Replacement program (ERMAR) into 2024. ARPA is a financial relief package from the federal government aimed at helping communities recover from the pandemic.

Johnson County Social Services Director, Lynette Jacoby says, “People have to sometimes make difficult choices about scaling back prescriptions or eating less in order to make a repair. Sometimes we take for granted some of those simple things in our life that we can easily remedy. But for a lot of folks, they just don’t have the financial capacity to make those emergency repairs to their home.”

We are incredibly proud of our partnership with Johnson County and look forward to working together to keep our neighbors living safely in their homes.

● IVHFH Women Build Week: April 23-29

● Mary Mascher Women Build Groundbreaking Ceremony: April 29 at 10:00 AM at 2637 Blazing Star Drive, Iowa City

● April/May Volunteer Shifts: Sign up to volunteer on construction or in the ReStore!