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Life :: Volunteering :: Housing
Richmond Virginia (VA) Housing
Here is a comprehensive list
of Housing volunteer opportunities.
| Name | Description |
| ACORN (Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods) | Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods (A.C.O.R.N.) exists to serve the City of Richmond through the revitalization of its oldest neighborhoods. A.C.O.R.N. achieves this by promoting — to individuals of all income levels — the purchase and renovation of vacant and abandoned properties and advocates for the preservation of the cultural and historic assets that give these old neighborhoods their unique character. |
| Better Housing Coalition | Better Housing Coalition builds and advocates for quality affordable housing while creating sustainable communities throughout the greater Richmond area. |
| Community Housing Partners Corporation |
Community Housing Partners Corporation (CHP) is a 501(c)(3) community development corporation dedicated to providing affordable housing and services for low- to moderate-wealth individuals and families. |
| ElderHomes | ElderHomes Corporation is a not-for-profit community development corporation. Our mission is to improve the housing and living conditions of elderly, disabled, and low-income persons in Richmond, Colonial Heights and Hopewell, and the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, and Powhatan. |
| Friends of Barnabas Foundation | We want to help you help those needs that you witness in your community every day. Do you know of a family who spend all of their income on food, heat, and medications - while having to watch their home collapse around them? |
| Habitat for Humanity, Hanover | Hanover Habitat seeks to eradicate substandard housing from Hanover County by encouraging all stakeholders (business, industry, government, social services, congregations, civic clubs, schools and individual citizens) to make housing a matter of action and conscience. |
| Habitat for Humanity, Richmond Metropolitan | Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity is part of a world-wide effort to change people’s lives by making it possible for them to achieve the dream of homeownership. We are an affiliate of , and use these guiding principles to build decent, modest homes in partnership with low-income, working families. |
| Hanover Winterization Project | Each year through the Winterization Project, volunteer groups weather-strip doors, wrap water pipes and seal drafty windows for over 70 households located throughout the county. This project serves persons with disabilities, elderly and low-income families in need who meet basic eligibility criteria and are County residents. |
| Housing Virginia | Housing Virginia is a non-profit organization that represents a diverse collaboration of housing organizations in Virginia who share a common desire to help educate Virginians about the benefits of affordable communities. |
| impactRichmond | impactRichmond is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization striving to be the hands of Christ in our community by preserving and revitalizing houses and communities, providing adequate shelter to homeowners via home remodeling, and providing hope by sharing our faith. Our program enriches the lives of the youth participants, adult counselors, and neighborhood residents it serves. |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | Providing grants, working capital and loan funds to our Community Development Corporation (CDC) partners, LISC had made it possible for dozens of neighborhoods to receive strategic, targeted real estate investments, helping approximately 3,000 families to have access to better housing, childcare and employment choices. |
| Neighborhoods in Bloom program | NiB is an innovative program that supports the restoration of Richmond's historic neighborhoods. It promotes housing renovation, restoration, construction, and sales in six select neighborhoods. |
| Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council | OHHIC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Richmond's older neighborhoods by providing historic quality affordable housing, home repair, credit and housing education and supporting neighborhood businesses. |
| Partnership for Workforce Homes | The Partnership for Workforce Homes wants to preserve and enhance the quality of life for everyone in the Richmond metropolitan area by making sure that, with a range of affordable housing options, we will remain a welcome home to all our workforce of today and tomorrow. |
| Rebuilding Together Petersburg | Rebuilding Together Petersburg is a neighborhood revitalization program. Rebuilding Together Petersburg is affiliated with Rebuilding Together, the nation’s largest volunteer organization preserving and revitalizing low-income houses and communities. |
| Rebuilding Together Richmond | Rebuilding Together of Richmond (formerly Christmas in April) is an affiliate of the national Rebuilding Together organization. It is a volunteer-based program that repairs and rehabilitates homes and non-profit community facilities. We help low income, elderly, and disabled people who own their homes but are unable to maintain them. |
| Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation | SCDHC strives to raise economic, educational, and social levels of the area residents; expand opportunities available to these groups through adequate low-cost housing; provide them with the necessary skills to survive independently as effective members of society; and, share wisdom and knowledge so they can start their own entrepreneurial ventures. |
| Virginia Supportive Housing | Virginia Supportive Housing is a not-for-profit homeless services provider and community development corporation whose mission is to provide permanent housing and comprehensive support services to individuals and families who are homeless or who have disabilities in order to initiate and promote their transition from homelessness to productivity and independence. |