Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity hosted its annual Celebration of Partnership event this week to celebrate the homeowners, volunteers and donors of 2015. The organization handed out four Volunteer Excellence Awards. Awards went to Dan Van Hande l, Lou Hull and Keith & Mary […]
Current Habitat Communications Specialist, Vaya, was in a unique place when she first applied to the AmeriCorps program. “I had completed my bachelors degree and was working my first professional job. On paper, I had a good job with a great corporation but every day […]
Joe Hentz is the perfect example of how the AmeriCorps VISTA program is designed to benefit organizations. Through his graphic design, knowledge of online systems and more, he created systems and templates that the organization continues to use today. While we’d like to think we […]
You might remember Erica Haasl as the friendly, klutzy AmeriCorps VISTA with the big smile, but that doesn’t quite fit on a business card. Her official position with Habitat was the Volunteer Development Specialist from 2014-2015. For Erica, this was her first professional work experience […]
For current AmeriCorps VISTA, Bree, she knows firsthand the beneifts of serving your community through AmeriCorps. She spent 10 months as a Corps Member with AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) in Sacramento, California back in 2008. Between graduating from NCCC and applying for VISTA, […]
Sara Mogenburg began at the Habitat ReStore as a volunteer and soon joined the team as the AmeriCorps VISTA ReStore Specialist in August 2013. After her first term, she stayed with the organization but headed over to the Habitat offices to serve with the Family […]
Erica Suchyta came to Habitat after completing her degree in 2009 at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She served as a Community Outreach Specialist VISTA through December of 2011. For Erica, AmeriCorps VISTA was a great bridge from degree to work force with hands on experience in […]
Fox Cities Habitat currently has three AmeriCorps members serving with the organization. Two AmeriCorps VISTAs are serving in our Development & Communications department and one in our Volunteer Services/HR department; our third member is serving as an AmeriCorps National with Construction Services. Meet Adam, a […]
Did you know that three Habitat staff members are alumns of various AmeriCorps programs? Their experience in AmeriCorps helped shape them for their future non-profit work in ways that no other experience could. Learn more about some AmeriCorps programs below: AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian […]
When you walk into the Appleton Habitat ReStore and run into Assistant Manager, Beni, you not only see laughter and spunk, you’re also seeing a two time AmeriCorps Alumn. After finishing her bachelor’s degree, Beni wanted to dig in and give back while challenging herself […]
