Sponsoring partners

On behalf of the Habitat for Humanity International Home Builders Blitz 2008, we’d like to thank the following sponsors.

Product Sponsors

Whirlpool Corporation
Since 1999, Whirlpool Corporation has donated a refrigerator and range to every Habitat home built in North America. This commitment continues with appliance donations to every home built during Home Builders Blitz and Operation Home Delivery. To date, Whirlpool Corporation has contributed more than 56,000 appliances accounting for more than $25 million.

Dow
Dow has been a partner since 1987 and will provide Dow Styrofoam insulation products to Habitat homes.

Yale
Yale will provide the interior and exterior locksets for all Habitat homes built in the United States and Canada.

Square D
Square D has partnered with Habitat to provide load centers and circuit breakers for all homes built in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Valspar
The Valspar Corporation has made a commitment to donate paint for all Habitat for Humanity affiliates in the United States.

Hunter Douglas
Hunter Douglas has been a partner since 1992 and has generously provided more than 100,000 custom window coverings to more than 20,000 homes in the United States and Canada. The company donates and delivers its finest custom-made products for the privacy rooms of all new and rehab Habitat home construction and at cost for all other rooms of these homes. In addition, Hunter Douglas employees and customers volunteer thousands of hours each year with local Habitat affiliates nationwide.

Larson Manufacturing Company
Larson has been a partner with Habitat since 1992 providing storm/screen doors for Habitat homes built in the United States.

Kohler
Kohler will support Home Builders Blitz 2008 with a donation of faucets for each house to include a kitchen sink faucet, a lavatory faucet and shower/bath valve and trim. Kohler made a similar donation to Home Builders Blitz 2006, donating all faucets to the project that saw 459 houses built in one week.

Rinnai
Rinnai tank less water heaters donated by Rinnai Corporation are natural or propane gas powered and are up to 50 percent more efficient than tank type water heaters and save up to 16 square feet of usable space inside the home. Rinnai also supported Home Builders Blitz in 2006.

CertainTeed
CertainTeed has committed to support Home Builders Blitz by providing roofing shingles for all projects, drywall for 10 homes, vinyl siding for 25 homes, fiber cement siding for 50 homes and insulation for another 10 homes.

Ferguson
Formed as a result of the partnership between a local Habitat affiliate and Ferguson, this new venture will provide up to two bathroom toilets in every Habitat home built in the United States over the next two years.