Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organiation

Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization

The "The Habitat for Humanity" (2011) is a nonprofit organization that helps to provide a safe and decent home to children, men, and women. This organization helps families regardless of race or religion backgrounds. The Habitat for Humanity is a Christia- based organization. The Habitat for Humanity builds homes in Africa, Middle East, United States, Canada, Asia, Pacific, Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The purpose of this organization is to help stop poverty and homelessness. The Habitat of Humanity was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller and Linda Fuller. Currently the organization has helped build over 400,000 homes and severed more than two million people around the world.

According to "The Habitat of Humanity" (2011), the organization's mission statement is seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope (Mission Statement). The Habitat for Humanity enforces the organization's mission statement into parties who work within the organization. By instilling positive reinforcement into the staff and volunteers of the organization, the organization's mission statement can be used to build success.

The Habitat of Humanity seeks much of its staffing needs through volunteers within the community. The Habitat for Humanity works with local government office to offer community service programs for those individuals who must complete community service hours for a variety of reasons. Using a community service outreach programs helps the Habitat for Humanity to complete their desire goals of building better living situations for families as well as helping the individuals see the purpose behind the program, and helping the individual complete his or her community service.

According to "The Habitat of Humanity" (2011), "Affiliates for the Habitat are community level offices in which act in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International" (Fact Sheet). The affiliates who work with the organization are independently run and are nonprofit organization. The affiliates who work with the Habitat work to put together all aspects of the home building process within their local areas. These functions are of fundraising, building site selection, family support, construction, and mortgage services.

The Habitat for Humanity partners with community members and corporations. The larger and key corporations in which work closely together are Bank of American, Citi Foundation, The Dow Chemical Company, Lowe's, Home Depot, Schneider Electric, Thrivent Financial, Whirlpool, Valspar, Wells Fargo, and Yale. Between these 11 corporate companies the average donation is about $338.1 million dollars a year. Not only do these companies donate money, they also donate workers, materials to build the homes, appliances, and mortgage services. These key corporate partners are an important part of the organizations goals of providng safe and affordable homes to those families in need. Among these key corporate partners, the Habitat of Humanity also has other corporate companies that participate in a gift matching program.

Social Media is becoming the newest form to marketing and public relations. Through social networking community members can interact in discussions about the organization as well as look for opinions and resources regarding the services that the organization provides. Habitat can be found through facebook, twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Habitat World Blog. These websites share stories, photos, support systems, and share interest. Besides social media networking, the Habitat of Humanity participates in cause marketing. Cause marketing inspires consumers and employees to join in the fight against poverty housing.

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