Throughout the over 30 year history of our organization, Slavic Village Development has helped thousands of our residents become homeowners, and have helped many more to gain access to funds and volunteer services to make needed repairs to their homes. Much of this is done through aggressive grantwriting and strategic partnerships. What we have found is that these resources are oftentimes targeted at families with school-aged children, senior citizens, veterans, and other special groups who are all certainly worthy of help. Then, there are many of our residents who are no less worthy, but who fall between the cracks because they are not a part of one of these groups, or they do not fall below certain poverty levels.

One Home at a Time focuses on what each resident needs in order to live in a safe and healthy home. This will include providing matching grants to residents to pay the material costs of minor renovations, offering free access to home-repair workshops conducted by the Home Repair Resource Center, and organizing “Fix-A-Thons” that bring volunteers to help paint, hammer, and landscape, thereby stretching the dollars that are raised, thus providing more residents the help they need to stay in their homes.

By helping our neighbors stay in their homes, you are helping to stabilize our community by strengthening the bonds of friendship and trust. Every time that a neighbor moves due to a roof that is beyond repair or a porch that can no longer be safely crossed, we not only lose that neighbor, but we also lose a history of friendships that kept other long-time residents in their homes. We also lose a neighbor who is there to welcome new residents to their new neighborhood.