This will not get built by writing checks alone.
There is more to do here than there is money to do it with, and most of what this neighborhood needs is the kind of help a person can give on a Saturday.
Inform your parish or your group
We would rather talk to a group than to an individual. A men's group, a Knights council, a small group, a book club, or a family of five is enough to spread the word.
Tell us about your group →Volunteer
There is work for every skill level and every age, on a fixed schedule so you can plan around it. Tools and lunch provided.
Volunteer →Walk the land
Come see the twelve acres and hear the plan standing on it. We also take groups to visit completed communities like ours so you can see what this becomes.
Schedule a visit →Build it
If you work in construction, engineering, landscaping, plumbing, electrical, or the trades, we want to know what you can do before we know when we will need it.
Offer your trade →Walk alongside a neighbor
For nearly two hundred years, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has done its work one way: two members go to a neighbor's home, sit down, and listen. Not a caseworker and a client. Neighbors.
When the Cottages of providence opens, small teams from local parishes will do exactly that with the people who live here. A team commits to one household, meets monthly, for a year, and completes a short orientation first.
It is the oldest thing we do and the most important thing we will do here.
Materials, trades, and supplier partnerships
Building materials, appliances, furnishings, professional services, and skilled trades all reduce what has to be raised in cash. In a county with this much construction expertise, in-kind giving is not a side channel.
Materials and appliances
Lumber, roofing, HVAC, water heaters, flooring, cabinetry, ranges, refrigerators.
Furnishings
A cottage is furnished before a resident moves in. Beds, tables, chairs, linens, kitchenware.
Professional services
Surveying, engineering, legal, accounting, landscape design, project management.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what your group can do, or ask what we need most right now.
