Breaking Ground in Milton

Local Lutheran churches, the Thrivent organization, and Lowes are sponsoring individual homes. GE Healthcare (formally IDX) has stepped up as a sponsor by offering hundreds of man hours of service. The Vermont Housing and Conservation Board has given us grants, to help meet the drastic need for simple, decent, and affordable housing in our community.

We are very grateful to these sponsors and to our individual volunteers and donors. However, we still need to raise funds to cover project costs. Due to the size of the Milton neighborhood, we’ve had to pay impact fees and infrastructure costs that were not part of our other smaller projects. Please help us meet our goal of raising the $800,000 needed to build these homes.  Your donation puts a roof over the head of our partner families, as much those who swing the hammers. Donate today!

Webmaster's note: On July 23rd, Green Mountain Habitat was featured in the Burlington Free Press. Click on the link below to read the full text.

GE Healthcare Workers on Barnum Street site

Five houses are being built on Barnum Street in the largest effort conducted by Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity, said David Mullin, the group’s executive director.

Many of the volunteers who will build the Milton homes work for GE Healthcare Information Technology in South Burlington. The company, formerly known as IDX Systems, is deploying 700 of its 800 employees on four-hour shifts during a two-week period — generating 2,800 hours of labor."

The Burlington Free Press has created a great slideshow with sound of the GE Healthcare workers working on Habitat houses.

Click here to see the audio slideshow.

You can now donate to us online! If you choose to donate using a credit card, we urge you to consider adding a dollar or two extra to help us defray the costs of processing credit cards. Your online donation is secure and we never share credit card information. Click on the button below to begin your donation.

Note: We process credit cards through Paypal. You do not need to have or set up a Paypal account to donate online. Thanks for your support!

By phone

To phone in a donation, please call: 802-872-8726.

If no one picks up, please leave a message with your phone and best time to call and we'll call you back.

Or by mail

Please send your donation to:

Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity
PO Box 381
Burlington, VT 05402

Donating Building Materials

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2 of our younger partners build sweat equity for their family

Habitat for Humanity, a worldwide organization, has built more then 250,000 homes over 26 years. Habitat recipients give 200 hours of sweat equity per adult (up to 400 hours) to build homes, then purchase them at cost with no interest loans, that in turn build more Habitat houses. We call it a hand up.