At its annual banquet on Friday, Jan. 16, the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce presented Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne with the 2025 Community Effort Award. This award was given to Habitat recognizing our work to galvanize the community behind our new McNair Heights Neighborhood.
Habitat Goldsboro-Wayne marked the start of vertical construction, as well as its 25th anniversary, on Friday, Jan. 16, with a special wall-raising ceremony at McNair Heights. Joined by volunteers, homeowners and members of the community, this event is one that we have long looked forward to. Now we are scheduling volunteer groups to help progress continue. Want to lend a hand? Sign up to volunteer today!
The first of a new blog series titled "Opening Doors" and how Habitat is opening the door to opportunity and transformation.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our Habitat family to yours. We also are excited to announce that we are beginning to schedule volunteers for early 2026 to work on our new McNair Heights Neighborhood! You can schedule your opportunity today!
Materials and heavy equipment are on site. Digging has begun on Dr. H.E. McNair Street to replace the sewer line. Building permits are in hand for 2 of the first 4 homes. Our construction yard is in place. Things are happening at McNair Heights!
Also, did you know Habitat has a special Veteran repair program?
And Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!
P.S. Don't forget, Giving Tuesday is Dec. 2!
Join Habitat for our annual Building Foundations Breakfast at Lane Tree Golf Club on Friday, Oct. 24 at 8:30AM, and then hang out with us again on your lunch break on Thursday, Oct. 30 at Worrell Contracting in downtown Goldsboro as we rally and sign studs that will be going into homes in our new McNair Heights Neighborhood.
Despite the rain and slightly soggy weather on Monday, more than 100 supporters turned out to celebrate the groundbreaking of Habitat Goldsboro-Wayne's McNair Heights Neighborhood off of Harris Street in Goldsboro.
Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne took a new step toward community building this summer as we held our first ever Construction Camp at Wayne Community College.
During the four-day camp held in WCC’s new Center for Industrial Technology and Engineering building, the 11 students, ages 16-18, had the opportunity to learn from and work hands-on with construction industry professionals from three different areas of the business – framing, electrical, plumbing – building working modules roughly simulating a small bathroom.
For most folks, July 1 is just another date on the calendar. At most it's one that means summer is slipping by, conjuring up images of pools, ice cream and fireworks.
But for Habitat, it's also the beginning of a new fiscal year - that date when budgets starts fresh and we begin implementing a new year's worth of programs and plans.
Spring is always a busy time at Habitat and this year is no different. We are excited and proud that this year we hosted a record-breaking 130 ladies for our annual Women Build event. Formerly a three-day event, this year we turned it into a week-long celebration of fun and fellowship while building a new home, community and hope. We then followed that with another wonderful CEO Build event, sponsored by Goldsboro Builders Supply Co. and featuring local business leaders.
With the start of spring just weeks away and International Women's Month underway, one of our favorite annual events is right around the corner. That's right, it's time for our 2025 Women Build! This year we are excited to expand this community favorite from its usual three days to a week-long event, with volunteer opportunities running from March 28 to April 5. And, to make it even better, we're kicking things off this year with a special, second annual, Habitat Ladies Night Out, sponsored by our Hammers & Heels group and Goldsboro Builders Supply on March 27.
What a great way to start the new year! We ended 2024 with a bang with two home closings and we are excited to pick up right where we left off with the closing of our 103rd new Habitat home already this year!
For many of us the holiday season is already underway. And with that start comes our traditional opportunity to ask for your support. This year, as we head into 2025, we are focusing on what a difference your support makes in your community. But you don't have to wait until Giving Tuesday or the end of the year to offer your support to our families. You can make you donation today. In the meantime, click the link to check out pictures from our Care-a-Vanners and our Hammers & Heels group!
On Friday, Oct. 11, we were honored and privileged to witness as another person became a homeowner - this time as Ms. Andreta Wooten closed on her new home. And on Friday, Oct. 25, we're going to be equally honored and privileged as Ms. Wooten shares her Habitat story with us at our Building Foundations Breakfast. So if you'd like to hear her story, hear a bit about the successes you've made possible over the last year and the plans that we have in motion for the future, all while enjoying a great breakfast, then join us at 8:30AM at Lane Tree Golf Club.
They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but what if I told you it was also the most important meal of the year for Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne? Well, believe it or not, it is!
Every year we hold our Building Foundations Breakfast at Lane Tree Golf Club. This year it will be held at 8:30AM on Friday, Oct. 25.
Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future!
Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne is proud to call itself a Veterans Build Affiliate, meaning that we are actively seeking to serve our community's veteran population.
We also are proud to be preparing to host our Fall Women Build event, Sept. 27-28, and there's still room left if you want to sign up to join us!
Habitat's Fall Women Build will be held Sept. 27-28 in Kinston. Registration is open with two shifts available each day, 8-11:30 & 12-3:30. Cost is $50 and includes lunch, t-shirt and swag bag.
Home ownership applications also set to open on Sept. 1.
Please join us in welcoming our new Director of Marketing and Fundraising, Stephanie Lack (right). Stephanie, a Wayne County native who has worked in Wayne and Lenoir counties for many years, including time with The Goldsboro News-Argus and ServPro, brings a wealth of experience and community knowledge to Habitat. We are so excited and thankful to have her on board as we strive to serve more families as we build homes, community and hope.
100 homes down. 100 and many more to go. Our work building homes, community and hope has only begun.
Come celebrate our 100th new home with us on Thursday, April 18 from 6-8PM at the Goldsboro Event Center (1501 S. Slocumb St.)
We are excited to dedicate home number 99 as the future homeowner prepares to move into her forever home with her family. But as we approach our 100th Home, we are asking for your feedback as we prepare for the future!
As we near completion of our 100th new home, we are hoping to be able to tell our history and our Habitat story. But we need your help. Please send any photos and memories of Habitat that you may have to lstallings@habitatgoldsboro.org as we partner with the Wayne County Public Library on a special local history project.
It's not too late to make your final gift for 2023. Your support is helping to build homes, communities and hope as we prepare to complete our 100th new home and then begin on the next 100!
As we continue to work on our 100th home, celebrate with us by picking up a 100th Home Commemorative Christmas Ornament at the Habitat ReStore at 124 E. Mulberry St. Also, if you didn't make a Giving Tuesday donation, but still want to give to help build homes, community and hope, you can do so right here on our website!
