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Habitat for Humanity-Greater Columbus wishes to thank the following individuals and organizations for their recent sponsorship of Habitat homes and special programs.

House Sponsorships

Full House Sponsorship: $75,000 – $100,000

Abbott Nutrition
American Electric Power Foundation
The Estate of Camille McKee
Enterprise Housing Foundation
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
John G. McCoy (9 houses in 2008)
Retirement Marketing Specialists
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (2 houses per year)
WalMart
The Weiler Family Foundation

Partial House Sponsorship:

$50,000

The Estate of John Russell
Northwoods Consulting Partners
Habitat's ReStore

$20,000

Easton Community Foundation
Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter at The Ohio State University
Habitat's Women Build
Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing
Simpson Strong-Tie
Steiner + Associates
Wells Fargo

$10,000 – $15,000

American Signature, Inc.
Battelle Foundation
Citigroup Foundation
The Cobalt Group
Diamond Cellar
Heritage Christian Church
IntegraLink/Cobalt
Mifflin Presbyterian Church
Plaskolite
Shelly Materials
U.S. Bank
W.D. Partners
WesBanco Bank

Adopt-A-House Faith Partnerships

Adopt-A-House Faith Partnerships are coalitions of churches and other faith groups that provide Habitat house sponsorship in the form of partial funding, volunteer labor, and construction leadership. Many Adopt-A-House groups build with us year after year. Our active Adopt-A-House groups are:

Clintonville/Beechwold Faith Partnership

Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
Columbus Mennonite Church
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
North Broadway United Methodist Church
Olentangy Christian Reformed Church
Overbrook Presbyterian Church

Dublin Faith Partnership

Dublin Presbyterian Church
Jerome United Methodist Church
Muirfield Village Civic Association
New Hope Reformed Church
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
St. Brigid Catholic Church

Hilliard Faith Partnership

Hilliard United Methodist Church
Indian Run United Methodist Church
Linworth United Methodist Church
Mountview Baptist Church
St. Brendan Catholic Church
St. James Lutheran Church
Scioto Ridge United Methodist Church

New Albany Faith Partnership

Beth Messiah Congregation
The New Albany Presbyterian Church
New Albany United Methodist Church

Northwest Faith Partnership

Covenant Presbyterian Church
First Community Church
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Northwest Christian Church
Riverside United Methodist Church
St. Agatha Catholic Church
St. Andrew Catholic Church
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Trinity United Methodist Church
Upper Arlington Lutheran Church

Worthington Faith Partnership

All Saints Lutheran Church
Bethel United Methodist Church
Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Meadow Park Church of God
St. John’s AME
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Worthington Christian Church
Worthington Presbyterian Church
Worthington United Methodist Church

Community Partners

Community partners provide ongoing support for our construction program and our Habitat families.

• City of Columbus Department of Development:
  • American Dream Downpayment Initiative
  • Capital Improvement Program
  • Housing Development Program
• Columbia Gas of Ohio’s WarmChoice™ Program, through a partnership with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC)
• Community Development for All People
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati
  • Affordable Housing Program, through the sponsorship of member bank Fifth Third
  • American Dream Homeownership Challenge, through the sponsorship of member bank Arlington Bank
• Franklinton Development Association
• Greater Linden Development Corporation
• Homes on the Hill CDC
• Ohio Department of Development: Ohio Housing Trust Fund
• Ohio Housing Finance Agency: Housing Development Assistance Program
• United Way of Central Ohio
• U.S. Department of HUD: Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program
• U.S. Department of HUD: Neighborhood Stabilization Program (in partnership with the City of Columbus and Franklin County)

In-kind Partners

The Habitat construction program relies on in-kind donations of building materials and services. Two companies deserve special recognition for their long-term partnership and the extraordinary generosity of their contributions to Habitat:

• Crane Plastics
• Whirlpool Corporation

We are grateful to the following companies for their ongoing commitment to Habitat. These companies are donating essential products or services for all of our Habitat homes.

• Advanced Civil Design
• Donley Tree Service
• Dow Corporation
• Larson Doors
• Ohio Operating Engineers

Program Sponsorships

$75,000 from United Way of Central Ohio helping to fund our ReBuild program in 2010.

$50,000 from the American Electric Power Foundation is helping to fund our Green Building Initiative and is funding the purchase of green build elements for five of our Habitat homes in 2010-2011.

$50,000 from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation was used to purchase the additional tools and equipment needed to increase our construction capacity and complete the John G. McCoy Circle multi-home project.

$39,387 from the Community Development Grant program of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources was used to purchase two new trucks for Habitat’s ReStore. We received this grant through the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO).

$30,000 from the American Electric Power Foundation was used to purchase new construction vehicles.

$30,000 from The Henry E. Coyle Fund of The Columbus Foundation allowed us to redesign our Habitat homes in 2008. Our new home designs, which we began using in 2009, offer a wide range of universal design and accessibility features. The new designs were created by M2 Design Group, who donated more than $20,000 in services toward the completion of this project.