Annotated Bibliography
“Affordable Housing
and Pro Bono”
Ammann, John J. “Affordable Housing and Pro Bono: Habitat
for Humanity Provides Valuable Pro
Bono Opportunities.” Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 4.3
(1998): 225-227. Web. 23 March. 2015.
The author of this article is an assistant professor, and a
member of the law committee of Habitat for Humanity in Missouri. The purpose is to show how lawyers,
attorneys, and law students help to contribute to Habitat. The intended audience is other attorneys and
law students who are looking to get involved in serving others. In this article they explain a little bit
about Habitats mission and then it goes into discussing how attorneys, lawyers,
and law students spend quite some time volunteering to help Habitat. Whether it be on the site building the house,
or with the legal aspect of it. This
article will help with my paper when discussing how volunteers come from all
different backgrounds.
“Making a Difference
through Habitat for Humanity”
Davis, Joyce. "Making a Difference through Habitat for
Humanity." Journal of Family and
Consumer
Sciences 94.3 (2002): 77-78.
Web. 19 March. 2015.
This source is written by a retired teacher who now works
volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.
The intended audience is teachers, which was the same profession of the
author. The purpose of this article is to show how Habitat can affect you when
you spend time volunteering. In this
article the author, explains how when she retired she found herself becoming
higher and higher on the board for Habitat, she started as a volunteer and
worked her way up to president. She explains how volunteers come from all
different careers in life, all the way from the mayor to fraternities and
sororities, and that volunteers are what make Habitat work. This source will be helpful in my paper when
talking about building skills, it shows that you do not have to be a construction
worker in order to volunteer with Habitat, anyone can help no matter your skill
level. People come from all different backgrounds
and are able to make the same amount of impact.
“Creating High-Impact
Nonprofits”
McLeod Grant, Heather. Crutchfield, Leslie R. “Creating
High-Impact Nonprofits.” Stanford Social
Innovations Review n.p.
2007. Web. 1 April. 2015.
The authors of this magazine article are two women who work
for higher educated universities such as Stanford, and the other works with
researching non-profit organizations. The purpose is to inform others about
non-profit organizations. The audience
is for those who are higher educated looking into non-profit
organizations. In the article they
discuss different non-profit organizations.
They share six myths that many have about non-profit organizations, and
then they discuss six ideas that non-profits practice. I will utilize this article when discussing
the impact Habitat makes on those it works with.
“Habitat for
Humanity: Walker Machine Co. helps build home”
Mendez,
Josephine E. "Habitat for Humanity: Walker Machine Co. Helps Build
Home." Charleston Daily
Mail (2014): C.1. Web. 23 March. 2015.
The author of this article is a women who is a part of the
mail staff. The purpose is to inform others how anyone is able to volunteer,
and just how rewarding it is when you do.
The audience of this article is the general public. This article talks about how when
volunteering for Habitat you have to have no prior skills, everything you need
to know how to do is taught on the site.
It talks about how you work very hard each day you are volunteering, but
there is no way one can leave the sight without a smile on their face, know how
much they accomplished that day. I will
use this article when I talk about building skills.
“Homeownership Impact
on Habitat for Humanity Partner Families”
Phillips, Iris. “Homeownership Impact on Habitat for
Humanity Partner Families.” Social
Development
Issues 31.3 (2009): 48-65. Web. 23 March. 2015.
The author of this article is a scientist who conducted an
experiment to test different ways Habitat makes an influence. The purpose is to
show how much of an impact Habitat has on their homeowners. The audience is the
general public, they are informing them on what Habitat does. The author begins
by explaining a little bit about what Habitat for Humanity is. They explain
what many of the families living conditions are like before receiving a home,
and just how difficult their living conditions are. They then go on to explain what kind of
impact receiving and owning a house has on the family, and how much it can
change their lives. I will use this
article when explaining how impactful Habitat is, it most definitely impacts
the volunteers but that’s not even close to the impact it has on the
homeowners.
“HABITAT for HUMANITY”
March. 2015.
The author of this is a reporter from that area. The purpose
is to share how important Habitat is to many families in low-income
situations. The audience is people with
money who would be able to donate to Habitat. This article shares a story from
a family who received a house and how it saved them, they said if I wasn’t for
the Habitat house they would be out on the streets. I will use this article when talking about
the impact Habitat has on the families that receive their houses.
Project Proposal
Thesis: Habitat
for Humanity is an organization that impacts the volunteers, by teaching them
new skills and building community, but the biggest impact it actually makes is
on the homeowners receiving the houses.
Three
questions that I will cover in my paper are as follows; what exactly is Habitat
for Humanity, and what is the purpose of it? How does Habitat for Humanity
impact the homeowners who receive the houses? Who can volunteer with Habitat
and what kind of skills do those volunteers develop, as well as what kind of
community do they build while volunteering through Habitat? I will cover these question through my
different sources I have found. When
explaining what Habitat is and its purpose I will use “Homeownership Impact on Habitat for
Humanity Partner Families” because it explains how the families are before they
are helped and gives people an idea of why Habitat chooses who they do, and I will
use “Affordable Housing and Pro Bono” because it talks about the mission of
Habitat. Next, when discussing how
Habitat impacts the house owners I will use my sources “Homeownership Impact on
Habitat for Humanity Partner Families” because it shows what a family is like
before and after Habitats help, “HABITAT for HUMANITY” because it tells a
story about a family and how it kept them off of the streets, and finally “Creating High-Impact Nonprofits” because
it talks about different myths non-profits have received and what they actually
do. Finally, when covering the skills
and community the volunteers build I will use “Making a Difference through Habitat for Humanity”,
“Affordable Housing and Pro Bono”, and “Habitat for Humanity: Walker Machine
Co. helps build home” because they all give examples of different groups coming
together and working towards the same goal, and they are all coming from
different backgrounds and different knowledge and skill levels.
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