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Employee Involvement
Bank Volunteers Complete 12th Year of HomeWork
2007 marked the twelfth year that employees of FHLBank Pittsburgh volunteered alongside a faith-based affordable housing organization to construct, repair and rehabilitate housing for lower-income persons.
The Bank’s long and successful HomeWork initiative with Hosanna Industries, Inc. began on August 17, 1996, when the first wave of Bank volunteers reported for duty in Richland Township.
Since then, Bank employees’ hours volunteering for HomeWork have totaled more than one year’s contribution of time and labor.
The following images capture the twelve-year history of HomeWork:
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August
17, 1996 — Richland Township. Bank volunteers
build a retaining wall for one home and roofing
for another. |
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November
1, 1997 — Ellwood City. The Bank and Hosanna
blitz build one home. |
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September
12, 1998 — East Liberty. Work on three homes
includes roofing, siding, drywall, painting and
flooring. |
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July
24, 1999 — Braddock. Blitz build of a Habitat
for Humanity home. |
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September
18-22, 2000 — New Castle. A massive outpouring
of volunteer labor during a blitz build, with
107 Bank employees, two Directors, four members
of the Bank's Affordable Housing Advisory Council
and six friends and family members of employees
rolling up their sleeves. |
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October
22-23, 2001 — East Liberty. Siding and painting
by 34 employees. |
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June
3-7, 2002 — Hill District of Pittsburgh.
Fifty employees blitz build two homes in five
days. |
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October
7-8, 2003 — Penn Hills. Roofing, painting,
landscaping and cleaning. Forty-one Bank volunteers.
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November
1-5, 2004 — Braddock. Work on Gideon's Place,
a social service agency managed by Pittsburgh
Family Development. Thirty-eight employees contribute
their talents; four family members and friends
lend a helping hand. Work on windows, siding,
landscaping, downspouts, painting and porch repairs.
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October
10-14, 2005 — Etna and Millvale. Nine families
benefit from repair work on homes damaged by flooding
during 2004's aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. |
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October 16-20, 2006 –
Forty-three employees and four family members
dig in, sometimes in heavy rain, to rehab one
home in Tarentum and another in Sewickley. Makeovers
of a kitchen and bathroom as well as painting
were performed in Sewickley while volunteers engaged
in siding, window replacement, dry walling, painting
and yard work in Tarentum. |
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October 26, 2007 - Nine FHLBank volunteers applied elbow grease at a Habitat for Humanity of Allegheny Valley project on Constitution Avenue in Arnold, PA, building shelving for the Habitat resale shop and sorting donations and building materials in the warehouse. The day’s activities were coordinated through FHLBank partner, Pittsburgh Cares. |
For more information on Hosanna Industries, or to volunteer
for one of its blitz builds, call 724-770-0262, or visit
their Web site at: www.hosannaindustries.org
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