Last month, Serious Materials supported Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization that invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.  Serious Materials extended support in two ways: with a sizable materials donation of SeriousWindows from our manufacturing facility in Longmont, Colorado,  as well as with some hands on activity from employees at Serious Materials’ corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Thirty five Serious Materials employees donated their time and know- how at a local building project for the organization. The project was a LEED Gold-rated housing development in East Oakland on the former site of closed auto salvage yard. That 2 acre plot that first had to go through an environmental clean up process due to the toxic chemicals left behind by the auto salvage process, now features 26 beautiful, brightly, environmentally-sustainable homes. These units will go to deserving low income families who finance their homes through a combination of  a zero-interest loan program and their promise to do 500 hours of volunteer service themselves for other Habitat projects.

As you can see, everyone at Serious Materials had a great time on the site that day and we look forward to our next opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity!

Learn more about this Habitat project at http://www.habitateb.org/edes

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