Our last build project was the 2020 Build -        Abed Family Home

JOIN THE HABITAT TEAM

• Contact one of the Team organizers, below, so you receive future email updates and upcoming meeting schedules - usually held in the Seton Youth Room (in the Seton Faith Formation Center at 3100 W. Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano) on the 3rd Thursday of the month
• Attend meetings and help develop fundraising and promotional avenues for Seton Habitat.  We also help plan build dates and details related to the support of Seton Habitat Volunteers.
• Watch the Seton weekly bulletin for information and announcements about the Habitat Team and future activities.
• VOLUNTTER FOR BUILD DAYS - see info below 

DONATE LUNCH ON A BUILD DAY

Each year a number of Seton parishioners and Plano businesses donate  food/lunches during the build days.  If you are interested participating in this way please contact Jeri Phillips jphillips@eseton.org  (Seton Habitat Staff Liaison) 

FINANCIAL DONATION

• DONATE TODAY -  there are several options!!!
  • Go to directly to https://habitatcollincounty.org/product/donate/ and then click on "choose an option” to put “St. Elizabeth Ann Seton” in that section.  This will direct your funds toward our next Seton Build!!!
  • Drop a check in the mail or collection basket, made to “Seton,” with “Habitat for Humanity” in the memo line. 
  • OR Online with Seton's FaithDirect https://membership.faithdirect.net/givenow/TX775/22517 be sure to make a note that you donation is for “Seton Habitat for Humanity”

HELP WITH THE CURRENT BUILD EFFORTS
 

If you would like to help, be notified of our upcoming build schedule, or learn more about Seton’s Habitat activities - connect with Seton Flocknote. 

Just join the group in the "Ministries"  section under "outreach" and select "Habitat for Humanity"

We would like to thank all of the parishioners, Seton organizations and local businesses who have supported this ministry!!!

Habitat gives a "Hand Up, not a Hand Out" - Recipients contribute "Sweat Equity" hours and purchase the "interest free" home, which in turn helps fund future home projects.

• The Seton Habitat Team supports the Collin County Habitat for Humanity organization, which handles many of the details (i.e., site selection, screening potential partner families, major construction, such as concrete and roofing, city permits and inspections, among other items.) 

•  Watch Habitat of Collin County webpage for build day updates!

HfHCC volunteer sign up system, called Volunteer Matrix, is new!!!
You will need to set up a "new volunteer profile."  It is easy to do and only takes a little bit to go through their process.
When you click on this link - you will be taken to to the page on which you many set up your profile. 


Once on the "Volunteer Calendar" page: 

1. Scoroll down and click on the tab "New Volunteer Registration"
2. Follow the steps to set up YOUR profile
   • It will ask you to set up a "username" and "password"
   • It will ask you to set a "personal security qeustion"
   • The next question is "Volunteering with a group?" - YOU ARE!!!
     • Our current project is a collaborative effort with St. Mark and PoP - so choose "Catholic Churches" from the group dropdown menu.
     • Once you have completed your full registration - you will be able to go BACK INTO YOUR PROFILE to add another group to your profile.  Please choose "Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton" from the group drop down menu to add our parish group to your profile.
3. Then next steps will ask for your contact info and emergency contact info
4. After that, you will go through their training questions (if you have already been volunteering you will already know a lot of the info0.
5. Once your profile is set up and you have submitted your registration - don't forget to go back to add "Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton" to your profile "group" section.

Thank You for your  time, patience, and understanding while they fine tune their volunteer registration system.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach by email to:  volunteer@habitatcollincounty.org 

Check out pictures of past builds and dedications below... and watch for updates on the current and future Seton Habitat build efforts. 

• Seton Habitat meetings are postponed until further notice.   And Please pray for those affected by the COVID-19 virus.
• See notes for last meeting above in the documents section.
• If you would like to help with other HfHCC builds, feel free to reach out the HfHCC volunteer coordinator Brittaney Freiheit    volunteer@habitatcollincounty.org

Seton parishoners are invited to join the

Most of us are fortunate enough to take having our own home for granted. Many, even in Plano/Collin County, are not so lucky. For many, home ownership is the major step that turns their family and lives around from lives of dependence to independence.
 
Every house that is erected by the volunteers we have all seen, in the news and on television, begins with a fundraising effort to buy the materials that the volunteers assemble under the guidance of experienced HfH project leaders. Seton, through its HfH Team, along with other churches and local corporations raises funds and provides volunteers to for Habitat projects.

Learn More About the Habitat for Humanity Program Below.  Also posted below are Build Updates and Photos of our Current and Past Builds.

Why have Habitat for Humanity (HfH) housing assistance in Collin County?

• About 18% of households in Collin County and Plano have incomes of less than 60% of the median income in the area.
• Many of these families have a steady income but live with family or friends, pay a disproportionate % of their monthly income for rent in an apartment, or the housing is dangerous or sub-standard.
• Conventional lenders and loans are not available.
• There are more than 350 families qualified by income and history for HfH assistance.

Everyone knows how Habitat for Humanity works, right?
They give away houses to poor people…Not so Fast!!

• Each family that applies for a HfH house is approved only if the need for a safe, affordable home is clear and they have at least a two year history of steady income and a good rental history.
• This is a “Hand Up, not a Hand Out.” Families commit to participate in the build providing 400 hours of their own “Sweat Equity”.
• Financial management, maintenance and planning skills training are provided and required.
• Approved families receive a 30 year interest free loan. Payments average $550 per month. They must also make a $1,000 payment for insurance and escrow on their house
• Mortgage Payments are used to fund future houses for others, so current homeowners “pay it forward”.
• For ten years HfH has a Right of First Refusal on the sale of the house.

Did you know that Habitat for Humanity also helps our community?

• Since inception, HfH Collin County has built over 200 new construction homes locally, renovated 250 homes locally, and constructed nearly 100 homes internationally through our Global Village Initiative.  Over 10,000 volunteers have served with us in our community contributing over 192,00 volunteer hours toward our mission.  We estimate over 1800 people have been helped through our homes.
• Providing a decent place to live brings security, improves health, increases educational results and offers financial stability to a family.  We are strengthening our communities one family at a time with a rippling affect that will affect many.
• Habitat Families save more than $100,000 in interest payments with their 0% interest, 30-year mortgage that allows them to provide a better standard of living for their families and much of the savings is spent with local businesses.Habitat families contribute more than $90,000 in property taxes each year to Collin County, Plano and other cities and local schools. 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Habitat for Humanity Team is committed to support regular Habitat builds both FINANCIALLY and PHYSICALLY!