• Thinking about volunteering at Syracuse Habitat for Humanity? Well, we can certainly use the help! And if you decide that you want to volunteer with us, please be sure to fill out an application. For the online volunteer form, click here. If you prefer paper, click here to download a pdf form.

• Build Site Volunteers

  Habitat for Humanity is most famous for enlisting the help of skilled and unskilled volunteers to build our houses. People who experience working on a Syracuse Habitat for Humanity house build report a sense of accomplish at the end of the day. They can point to the house and tell their friends that they help put on roof shingles. And they feel pride knowing that their work was vital to the building of one more home for a deserving, hardworking, low-income family. For more information on home builds, visit the Builds page, or click here.

  Donations to Build

  Let's face it, it costs money to build our homes. We understand that your time is valuable, and we truly appreciate your willingness to volunteer your time to help us build houses. However, Syracuse Habitat for Humanity purchases the materials you use during your day of volunteering. Given the current economic climate, Syracuse Habitat for Humanity asks that individual volunteers consider making a suggested donation of $25 per day if possible when volunteering on a house build to help defray the cost of the materials you will use that day. Groups are asked to consider a donation of $50 per person per day.

  Please remember that your donation helps us all to achieve a shared vision: to build safe, decent and affordable homes for hardworking, low-income families who would not be able to live in safety without your generosity. For questions or to discuss this further, please feel free to contact the Syracuse Habitat for Humanity office.

  There are so many ways raise funds. If you need some ideas, visit out funraising ideas page.

• How volunteering for a build works

  1. You contact Carl Sharak our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteercoordinator@syracusehabitat.org with the dates you would like to work.
  2. Carl gets back to you, letting you know if we need volunteers for those dates.
  3. On the day you are scheduled you show up at the build for which you are scheduled and look for our construction manager.
  4. If you found the experience rewarding contact the Volunteer Coordinator and have yourself scheduled again.

• The Volunteer Spirit

  • Everyone wants Saturdays. If you want to work on a Saturday you will have lots of competition and it will be hard to schedule you. If you can take a day off work to help us on a weekday we would be most grateful.
  • Be patient. We work to please but to keep funds going towards houses we have a very small staff and may take a while to get back to you. Be persistent, check in regularly but please be kind. If it's urgent give us a call in addition to emailing.
  • Be flexible. Construction is unpredictable by nature. Mostly we don't know exactly what you will be doing until you are doing it. Materials arriving on time, the weather, the speed of a crew, permits and many other factors affect how a build progresses.

• But what if construction is not your cup of tea?

  Well there are MANY, MANY other ways you can volunteer at SHFH.

  Give us a call, we can work something out.

• Ways you can help...just to give you an idea

  • Deconstruction

    Harvesting materials for sale in the ReStore

  • Restore

    Organizing inventory

    Preparing new materials for display

    Customer assistance

  • Office Work

    Filing

    Updating monthly reports

    Sending out thank you letters

    Special projects

  • Fundraising

    Mailing Assistance

    Event planning and assistance

    Grant writing and research

• Visit our Volunteer Opportunities page for a listing of our current needs for volunteer help.

  If you're not sure how you can help, theses questions might help you create or identify a sastifying volunteer experience.

  • Interested in volunteering a few hours each week, once a month, or as needed?
  • Want to do something that does not require heavy thinking?
  • Prefer something that exercises YOUR unique talent?
  • Looking for ways to build up your resume?

  Internships, Class Projects, Skill Building

  If you are looking for an internship project, class project or are simply looking for an opportunity to develop new skills, give us a call. We can probably create a project that satisfies your requirements AND helps Syracuse Habitat for Humanity.

For More Volunteer Information

• For more information about volunteering at Syracuse Habitat for Humanity contact Carl Sharak, our VOLUNTEER volunteer coordinator via email at volunteercoordinator@syracusehabitat.org