Community partnerships

The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration was formed in February 2010 and consists of five historic African-American Baptist communities: Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; National Baptist Convention, USA; National Missionary Baptist Convention of America; National Baptist Convention of America; and Progressive National Baptist Convention. Combined, these communities represent more than 40,000 Baptist churches and more than 10 million Christians.

The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration has graciously agreed to raise money to help Habitat for Humanity rebuild and revitalize Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake that occurred in January 2010.

The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, war-time veterans’ organization, devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is a not-for-profit community-service organization which now numbers nearly 2.5 million members, men and women, in nearly 14,000 American Legion posts worldwide. The American Legion encourages Legionnaires to improve their local communities and communities around the world with Habitat for Humanity.

Habitat and the American Legion have created a toolkit to help Legionnaires better understand Habitat’s mission and opportunities for involvement. Affiliates throughout the United States are working with their local Legion post to involve and serve veterans and their families, and the impact—for those served and those that serve—continues to grow.

What began as a small group from Willow Creek Community Church with a desire to help families in need, has grown into a strong partnership. Over the last 14 years, Willow Creek has donated more than US$670,000 to Habitat for Humanity’s work in Illinois, the United States and around the world. Whether in response to local needs, natural disasters or desperate poverty overseas, Willow Creek is an invaluable partner in Habitat’s fight against poverty housing.

Established in 2005 as a project of the non-partisan William J. Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The goal of the annual meeting is to match people who possess the necessary resources with those who have the most innovative ideas and greatest capacity for implementation.

Participation is by invitation only and participants are required to make a commitment to action as part of the meeting. Habitat for Humanity International has made a commitment to strengthen the low-income housing sector in Haiti through vocational training and home improvements for impoverished families. Additionally, Habitat commits to promote sustainable building activities in its affordable housing work and to expand its housing microfinance program.