Construction site

2025 Annual Report: Construction

Construction Update

This year, we introduced two new two-story floor plans, began construction on 21 new homes for 21 hardworking families, brought the construction site to seven organizations through our Panel Builds, and continued our partnership with Lancia Homes, which completed another home build for a Habitat GFW family.

  • 2-story in progress

  • Fort Wayne Metals panel build

  • Future Homeowners

The Volunteer Difference

  • 20 crew leads

    volunteered their time 1-3x per week — without them, we could not do what we do.

  • 6,263 volunteer hours

    donated by our incredible volunteers + volunteer crew leads.

  • 63 lunches donated

    to feed our families, volunteers, and staff by individuals + corporations.

Wide view of main living room and kitchen -Triumph Layout

Collaboration Story

The Literacy Alliance + Community Harvest Food Bank

Since 2007, The Literacy Alliance has provided a start-up family library for every Habitat for Humanity home in our community — a bookcase, reference books, and handpicked reads for every family member. Each library costs about $150.

You can support these partnerships and keep them thriving by purchasing items from The Literacy Alliance’s Amazon wishlist or by donating to Community Harvest Food Bank.

Literacy Alliance wishlistcommunity harvest food bank

New 2-Story Homes

In partnership with Design Collaborative, Habitat GFW introduced two new two-story floorplans. The Charlotte, a 4-bedroom, 2-bath, and the Portland, a 3-bedroom, 2 bath, both feature a first-floor bedroom and bath to support universal design; part of Habitat’s ongoing partnership with AWS Foundation to create inclusive, accessible spaces for families of all abilities. The homes also feature a front porch, back patio, and attached storage shed with exterior design features to better blend with existing architecture in the neighborhoods in which we’re currently building.

2025 Season Snapshot

  • Future Homeowner
  • Three women in pink hard hats smiling
  • Volunteers and Future Homeowners
  • Volunteers with Family
  • Two women with pink hard hats smiling at camera
  • Volunteers installing window
  • ReStore volunteers
  • Two women in pink hard hats smiling for a selfie on the Habitat construction site
  • Rick and Andrew
  • Women Build volunteers in pink hard hats
  • Laura in blue hard hat next to Women Build volunteers in pink hard hats
  • Future homeowner using nail gun on wood wall
  • Group of Homestead High School volunteers smiling for camera

  • I felt part of a great team that was doing something very useful. I loved that I could ask questions or ask for help whenever I might need it without any worries.

    Habitat Volunteer

Group of volunteers from WOWO radio station

In 2025, we took the job site to seven organizations — six in Allen County and one in Huntington County. We engaged 246 volunteers to build all of the interior and exterior wall panels of a Habitat home for families in our community. 💙

Special thanks to Home Lumber for donating their trucks and time to deliver all the materials needed to each location.

2025 Annual Report

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