Building Freedom Day
Every year on the anniversary of the tragic 9/11 attacks, Habitat for Humanity Tucson begins construction on several homes, building them from the ground up, to not only memorialize the victims, but to celebrate hope, community and the American dream at its annual Building Freedom Day.
This year we started ten new homes in honor of the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Building Freedom Day, September 11, 2011.
Nearly 400 volunteers joined us that day to help us raise the walls on the homes. Community members, representatives from local businesses, congregations, members of the military and Habitat homeowners come together to help make the dreams of several families come true.
“Building Freedom Day began as a way to heal the community,” said Michael McDonald, Executive Director. “By focusing on others and providing an activity that answers a pressing community need, people are not only called to action, but it is also a way for us to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
Building Freedom Day began in 2002 on the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center as both a symbolic and a substantial way of commemorating the true spirit of American opportunity, community and hard work.
Since then, more than 6,000 volunteers have come together to start construction on a total of 70 Habitat homes at Building Freedom Day. Each volunteer has had a hand in changing the lives of those 70 families forever.
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“… the volunteers seemed to have a good time while staying productive. They went home with a sense of accomplishment. The future homeowners were on site, and their sense of quiet gratitude was coming through…It seems almost like magic, to take a large number of unskilled people, a few more knowledgeable ones, and mostly frame someone’s home in a day. I have done it many times with a pro crew, but this was special.” Bruce Hallowell |
For the last three years, Building Freedom Day has been located at our Corazon Del Pueblo home development located at the I-10 and Craycroft Road exit.
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Thank you to our Building Freedom Day 2011 sponsors!
Home Builders
$70,000 and up
Pima Neighborhood
Investment Partnership
City of Tucson
Pima County
Peace within these walls from Uncle Bill
Tucson Medical Center
Construction Partners
$25,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Dale and Joan Kreider
Long Realty Cares Foundation
Wells Fargo
Tucson Association of REALTORS®
Roof Raisers
$10,000 – $24,999
Citi
Direct Mail Donors
Cox
Sanofi Employees
St. Philip’s In The Hills
Episcopal Church
GEICO
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Wall Raisers
$5,000 – $9,999
Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney LLC
Tucson Electric Power
US Bank
Bank of the West
BBVA Compass
Northern Trust Bank
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
M3 Engineering
Jan and Art Hoffman
Lowe’s
The Home Depot USA
Ground Breakers
$1,000 – $4,999
Community Church at
SaddleBrooke
CAID Industries, Inc.
Sundt Foundation
Southern Arizona Home
Builders Association
The Groundskeeper
In memory of Ben Brown
St. Pius X Catholic Church
JB Steel
Rosemont Copper Company
Christ Presbyterian Church
Jewish Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Real Estate Allied Professions of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Congregation Or Chadash
Tucson Board of Rabbis
ScriptSave
AAA Landscape
Progressive Roofing, LLC
The Mahoney Group
D.P. Electric
Pam Grissom
In memory of John and Rose Holahan
In memory of William and Nettie Niemann
aldea spiritual community
In memory of Edna Gustafson Larson
In memory of Paul Gerdes
The Ashton Company Inc.
Sun Mechanical Contracting, Inc.
In memory of Mike Riley (2)
Sierra Woodworks, LLC
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona: Anonymous
Fred and Ann Boice
In memory of Wesley T. Landrum
In-Kind Donors
American Red Cross
of Southern Arizona
Arizona Shuttle
Bashas’
Coca-Cola
Cox Road Show Truck
Culligan/Oasis
Davis Monthan Air Force Base
Dennis Rhodes
Flammable Designs
Discount Disc Jockey
eegee’s
Madden Media
POWERADE
PRO-EM Party Concepts
SCF Arizona
Tucson Newspapers Inc.
Tucson Recycling and Waste Service
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Learn more about becoming a 2011 Building Freedom Day sponsor with the Habitat Building Freedom Day 2011 sponsorship kit.
