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I want to thank you for bringing up the Villages Habitat for Humanity Club. We work very closely with the main affiliate, Habitat for Humanity Lake-Sumter, building homes in the area. We also have instituted a program here in The Villages called Villagers Home Assist where a team of volunteers will come to your house and help you with outside lawn care, power washing, painting, tree and bush trimming, etc, for a donation to our building fund so we can continue our mission to build houses in the area. If you are interested in donating, being a member of the Club or in the Villagers Home Assist Program, you can send an email to me, Sally Read, co-president of the Villagers Habitat Club at villagershabitat @ gmail. Our Club meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at Sea Breeze Rec Center at 6:00 PM. Anyone is welcome to come and find more about our Club and the great work that we do.

PM[QUOTE=Janie123;2164653]We give to 3-4 charities + our church each year with our larger donations. I found that large charities have lots of local presences running as their own 501c3 where you can meet the local staff. For example Habitat for Humanity is huge but they have local 501c3’s all over the place that report up to them. HFH here in TV has Lake Sumter Habitat. I personally met the leaders there and then I felt good about my donations. Here in TV is a HFH club that fund raises and builds their own homes for the actual local HFH organization. Donations to the local org can be redirected to the club for the local home build.