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CenterPoint Energy starts 21st year with Twin Cities Habitat

CenterPoint Energy volunteers are once again helping build a Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity home this summer. This time in Crystal. This being the company's 21st straight year with Habitat, the volunteers work like a well-oiled machine.

"It's fu...

Minnesota Zen Meditation Center volunteers help build community with TC Habitat

This past winter, Minnesota Zen Meditation Center (MZMC) volunteers began an effort to help build homes with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. 18 MZMC volunteers installed flooring and insulation and helped to paint the interior of a Habitat home ...

Habitat says farewell to one of its longest serving volunteers

Volunteering with Habitat for 22 years requires dedication and commitment. You become a familiar face to many of our site staff and fellow volunteers, and play an important role in transforming the lives of countless Habitat families. You gather n...

New Project Aims to Help Many Homeowners by End of Year

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program (MFPP) is happy to be participating in the Making Home Affordable Outreach and Intake Project. A new effort by national, state, and local organizations, the project aims to...

Be a regular and take your volunteering to the next level

To a volunteer, the benefits of joining a regular construction crew are that it’s fun, there’s
great camaraderie and you get the chance to help others. For TCHFH the advantages are stability and reliability on the build site. Our regular crews are...

New Prague ALCO Donates To refreshed Habitat ReStore

The Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ReStore in New Brighton recently got a big refresh makeover and now tons of new products are coming in for savvy shoppers.

One ReStore donor, New Prague’s ALCO store, provided the ReStore with a particularly ge...

Innovative Energy Solutions provides Twin Cities Habitat with energy saving in-kind donation

 Edina based Innovative Energy Solutions is helping two Habitat homeowners with energy saving products this year. The company donated insulation to a Habitat home currently under construction in Anoka. In addition, Innovative Energy Solutions dona...

Don’t Just Count Your Blessings, Share Them!

On Saturday, March 2nd, a group of 25 volunteers came together to build for the day in celebration of Chris Maccarone’s 50th birthday. In addition to recruiting their friends and family members to build alongside them at a multi-unit home in Woodb...

Veteran's family buying a Habitat home in Oakdale

A subsidized studio apartment is not the ideal place to raise three active kids. Thankfully Mohammad Zafar and his wife Sarah O’Keefe will soon have all the space they need in the Habitat home they're buying in Oakdale later this month. The family...

Mr. Rooter Plumbing Provides Critical Home Repair to a Family in Need

Fridley based Mr. Rooter Plumbing generously provided plumbing materials and services to one A Brush With Kindness partner family this spring. Rachel, a single mother of two, has worked tirelessly to make her home a safe and comfortable place for ...