Quicken Loans and Habitat for Humanity build national partnership
Volunteer efforts to focus on neighborhood transformation in three major cities
ATLANTA (September 15, 2016) – (RealEstateRama) — Habitat for Humanity today announced a national partnership with Quicken Loans, the nation’s second-largest retail mortgage lender. More than 1,100 Quicken Loans team members will volunteer a total of more than 6,000 hours rehabilitating and revitalizing neighborhoods in Cleveland, Phoenix and Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Volunteering is so much more meaningful and powerful when you can do it alongside community members who live in the areas being impacted,” said Chris Uhl, Quicken Loans vice president of Community Investments. “We look forward to rolling up our sleeves and working together to help residents revitalize their neighborhoods, while strengthening the pride and inspiration within the communities. Personally, I know I am looking forward to hearing about the history of these amazing neighborhoods from long-time residents, as we prepare the areas for their next chapters.”
Beginning today, volunteers will help rehabilitate three homes in the Victory Acres neighborhood of Tempe, Arizona. Continuing through September, volunteers will help rehab four homes in Cleveland, and will help construct an urban farm in Charlotte. Quicken Loans team members will volunteer alongside homeowners in each of these cities to help transform these communities into more vibrant and safe places to live.
“We are grateful for partners like Quicken Loans and their commitment to Habitat’s mission,” said Colleen Finn Ridenhour, deputy director of Corporate, Foundation and Institutional Relations at Habitat for Humanity International. “It is because of corporate partnerships like this one we are able to help more homeowners improve their lives and build stronger, safer communities.”
Quicken Loans offers its team members unlimited paid volunteering time with any of its 250-plus partner nonprofit organizations. In 2015, the company’s team members volunteered more than 100,000 hours with charitable organizations.
About Habitat for Humanity International
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 as a grassroots effort on a community farm in southern Georgia. The Christian housing organization has since grown to become a leading global nonprofit working in nearly 1,400 communities throughout the U.S. and in nearly 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand up 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, visithabitat.org.
About Quicken Loans
Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc. is the nation’s second-largest retail home mortgage lender. The company closed more than $220 billion of mortgage volume across all 50 states since 2013. Quicken Loans generates loan production from web centers located in Detroit, Cleveland and Scottsdale, Arizona. The company also operates a centralized loan processing facility in Detroit, as well as its San Diego-based One Reverse Mortgage unit. Quicken Loans ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction for Primary Mortgage Origination” in the United States by J.D. Power for the past six consecutive years, 2010 – 2015, and highest in customer satisfaction among all mortgage servicers the past three years, 2014 – 2016.
Quicken Loans was ranked No. 5 on Fortune magazine’s annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list in 2016, and has been among the top 30 companies for the last 13 years. It has been recognized as one of Computerworld magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT” the past 12 years, ranking No. 1 in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2007, 2006 and 2005. The company moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010, and now more than 10,000 of its 15,000 team members work in the city’s urban core. For more information about Quicken Loans, please visit QuickenLoans.com, on Twitter at@QLnews, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/QuickenLoans.
