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For 37 years South Shore Habitat has been helping individuals build and improve a place to call home.

Founded in Norwell in 1986 as an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, South Shore Habitat serves 32 cities and towns south and southwest of Boston. It is thanks to the support we have received from our generous donors, devoted volunteers, corporations, foundations, staff and local communities that we are able to build homes and change lives.

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GuideStar Gold 2019

Board of Directors

Officers

  • President:Robert E. O’Neill, Executive Director of Brigham & Women's Harbor Medical Associates, Retired
  • Vice President: Richard Halverson, Retired, Campanelli Construction
  • Treasurer: Antonette Davis, Director of Loan Servicing and Automated Lending, South Shore Bank
  • Secretary: Susan Solis, Boston Connect

Directors

  • Kati Brigham, Vice President, McCall & Almy
  • Rudy Dajie, Business Executive and Investor
  • Tracy Harvard, SVP Lending, Residential & Consumer Lending, Dedham Savings
  • Kristen Poulin, Troy Funds Group
  • Brian Hayes, Vice President Commercial Lines, Quincy Mutual Group
  • Terry Green, Retired, Fidelity
  • Mark Everett, Financial Advisor, Diversified Financial Management
  • Antonette Davis, Director of Loan Servicing and Automated Lending, South Shore Bank
  • Jack Conlin, Assistant Project Manager, Callahan Construction Managers

Staff

  • Beth Lyons, Executive Director
  • Noreen Browne, Director of Project Development
  • Tamar Schiess, Director of Development
  • Melissa Boynton, Volunteer Coordinator
  • Sheri Green, Construction Manager
  • Melissa Butka, Bookkeeper

Our Vision: A world where everyone has a decent place to live.

HFHI Principles

Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ.

We undertake our work to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus, acting in all ways in accord with the belief that God's love and grace abound for all, and that we must be "hands and feet" of that love and grace in our world. We believe that, through faith, the minuscule can be multiplied to accomplish the magnificent, and that, in faith, respectful relationships can grow among all people.

Focus on shelter.

We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God's love, to create opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate or preserve homes, and by partnering with others to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for break- ing the cycle of poverty.

Advocate for affordable housing.

In response to the prophet Micah's call to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we sup- port the global community's commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.

Promote dignity and hope.

We believe that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. We believe that every person has something to contribute and something to gain from creating communities in which all people have decent, affordable places to live. We believe that dignity and hope are best achieved through equitable, accountable partnerships.

Support sustainable and transformational development.

We view our work as successful when it transforms lives and promotes positive and lasting social, economic and spiritual change within a community; when it is based on mutual trust and fully shared accomplishment; and when it demonstrates responsible stewardship of all resources entrusted to us.

Non-proselytizing policy

Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliated organizations will not proselytize. Nor will HFH work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with HFH. This means that HFH will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.

Interested in helping? Volunteers and donations go a long way in the creation of affordable housing.

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