Sponsors

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans sponsored four homes in conjunction
with West Central MN Habitat for Humanity in 2007!  These builds were in
 Montevideo, Willmar, Litchfield and Buffalo Lake.  In 2006 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans partnered with HFHWCM to build two homes in Milan and New London.

Thrivent Builds with Habitat is a partnership between Thrivent Financial
for Lutherans and Habitat for Humanity International.  It is the goal of this $105 million
partnership to increase the number of homes that Habitat for Humanity builds each
year for five years, 2007 being the second year of our partnership.  

During 2007 each of West Central MN Habitat's four Thrivent Builds Homes received 65% of
their build funds from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.  In addition, local Lutheran
churches pledged 10% of the build funds.  The local Habitat affiliate
provided the remaining 25% of the build funds.  Local Lutheran church members were required to donate their time and skills on these Habitat build sites.

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The Wells Fargo Foundation, in conjunction with the Willmar Wells Fargo employees,
have donated over $100,000 to West Central MN Habitat in 2005 and 2006
and have taken turns working on local Habitat projects.  They again donated to West Central MN Habitat another $35,000 in 2007 to help build the Vos Park and Pennock 1 homes!

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West Central Home Builders Association and Others

The West Central Builders Association partnered with HFHWCM to contribute to 
the Affiliate's 50th build in Pennock.  

The following area builders and suppliers sponsored this build with materials and labor:
§Affordable Air, Inc.  §Ahmann Construction  §B & J Lake Region Electric, Inc.  §Builder's Outlet  
§Chappel Central, Inc.  §Christianson Brothers Construction  §Countertops Plus  
§Custom Creations  §Double J Masonary, Inc.  §Duininck Brothers, Inc.
§Empire Plumbing & Heating  §Gimse Brothers Construction  §Hansen Concrete  
§The Home Depot  §Holmgren Appraisals  §Mike Kompelien Custom Homes  
§Koosman Construction Company  §Magnuson Sheet Metal, Inc.  §Menards  §Perkins Lumber §Probuild/UBC  §Thein Well  §Turbo Turf  §Vreeman Construction, Inc.  
§Walz Design Woodworks, Inc.  §West Central Insulation

The following contributed moneys towards the build:
§Jeff Ackerson House Doctor, Inc.  §Excel Overhead Door LLP  §Insurance by Strehlow  
§Lake Region Bank--Willlmar  §M & J Builders Builders, Inc.  §Jerry Nelson Construction, Inc. §Steffl Drilling & Pump, Inc.

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SHOP (Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program) Grant under HUD (Housing Urban Development)/HFHI (Habitat for Humanity International)

Habitat for Humanity of West Central MN was awarded a $100,000 SHOP grant to assist with land purchase and infrastructure of seven builds.  These builds include Vos Park, completed in 2007; Litchfield, completed in 2007; two homes in Montevideo, completed in 2007; Pennock 1, to be completed this spring; Pennock  2, to start construction this summer; and Dassel, to start construction this spring.

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