Adobe and Habitat for Humanity Help San Diego Families Find a Way Home

Adobe's San Diego, California, employees are small in number but mighty in community spirit. In 2002, the site formed its own four-member Adobe Philanthropy Council to disperse a quarterly allotment of company charitable funds and to organize employee volunteer activities such as Red Cross blood donations, Second Harvest food drives, and regular meal services at the St. Vincent de Paul Village.

In March 2002, eight Adobe San Diego volunteers — most of the office — wielded hammers, saws, and other tools to help its local Habitat for Humanity affiliate renovate a home in nearby Santee for an elderly couple. The Adobe crew spent a full day painting fences, removing tree stumps, replacing termite-damaged wall studs, demolishing old stucco, and laying brick retaining walls. The San Diego Philanthropy Council also made a cash donation to the organization.

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, grassroots, housing movement with more than 1,900 active affiliates in 83 countries. Since its founding in 1976, it has sought to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world. Habitat for Humanity has partnered with families in need to build and rehabilitate more than 125,000 houses for over 625,000 people in more than 3,000 communities. In 2003, Adobe San Diego will join its local Habitat for Humanity team again to help construct four new houses in National City.

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