Dow Celebrates its 50,000th Habitat for Humanity Home
August 18 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Product and volunteer contributions build stronger
communities
For 34 years, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) has partnered
with Habitat for Humanity to help families around the world obtain
decent, affordable housing. The Company is celebrating the 50,000th
Habitat home that it has supported through product or volunteer
contributions.
For this milestone build, Dow is partnering with
Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity to build a new home in
Freeland, Mich. From August 18 to September 9, Dow volunteers will
work alongside the future homeowners, who have been working
diligently with Habitat for several years to make their dreams of
homeownership a reality.
Volunteers from Freeland area churches and Thrivent Financial
will also lend a helping hand on the project.
As with many other Habitat projects, technology from Dow
Building Solutions will be incorporated into the 50,000th build,
including STYROFOAM™ Brand XPS Insulation, GREAT STUFF PRO™
Insulating Foam Sealants and WEATHERMATE™ Construction Tape. Dow
provides gift-in-kind product donations for U.S. and Canada Habitat
builds, and these products improve the energy efficiency of homes,
resulting in lower utility bills for homeowners.
“Dow’s partnership with Habitat remains strong because we are
like-minded in our desire to ensure that every family, everywhere
in the world, has a safe, comfortable, energy-efficient home,” said
Rob Vallentine, Dow’s director of Global Citizenship and president
of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation. “We are humbled to
collaborate with Habitat for the 34th year and to share our
passion, talents and building expertise with 50,000 families across
the globe.”
Dow’s support of Habitat aligns with its 2025 Sustainability
Goals and its Global Citizenship mission to help build sustainable
communities by providing access to energy-efficient, affordable
housing. By working together, Dow and Habitat have been able to
move collectively toward the shared vision of a world where
everyone has a decent place to call home.
To track the progress of the 50,000th home, follow DowCorps on
Facebook and Twitter.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of
the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean
water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven,
industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015,
Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed
approximately 49,500 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35
countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100
percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a
global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25
manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000
employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The
Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found
at www.dow.com.
About Habitat for Humanity
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live,
Habitat for Humanity has grown from a grassroots effort that began
on a community farm in southern Georgia in 1976 to a global
nonprofit housing organization in nearly 1,400 communities across
the U.S. and in over 70 countries. People partner with Habitat for
Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat
homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay
an affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or
adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help
families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they
need to build better lives for themselves. Through shelter, we
empower. To learn more, visit habitat.org.
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