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matt haugen

Matt Haugen has been collecting and sharing the great stories of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity as Communications Manager since 2010. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degree from Northwestern University before spending ten years writing for TV news in the Twin Cities. He’s passionate about convincing people when he’s right on things, and being educated about it when he’s not.

St. Paul - Holy Hammers at it again on Edmund Avenue

Volunteers from the ecumenical group Holy Hammers have been building homes with Twin Cities Habitat since 1999. And now they're at it again. Right after Easter, the first crew began construction on a home at on Edmund Avenue in St. Paul. The workers...

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900 families and counting for Twin Cities Habitat

More than 900 hardworking, low-income families have now purchased Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity homes. The organization honored its seven newest...

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Affordable housing to be pushed at State Capitol Tuesday

The 3rd annual Habitat on the Hill – Minnesota event is Tuesday, April 17th from 9am-4pm. Regular citizens from around the state, acting as advocates...

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Twin Cities Habitat volunteers heading to Costa Rica

An intergenerational group of volunteers from the Twin Cities will build Habitat homes in La Cruz Costa Rica between March 10-19. Twin Cities Habitat...

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Costa Rica March 2012: Turn off, tune in, help build

While shooting the breeze with another Global Village team member in the the terminal before departing, we agreed that we couldn't wait to turn our...

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Habitat on the Hill DC 2012

The biggest thing I've learned here in DC at Habitat's annual lobbying event is that along with building all those homes for all those families you...

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Costa Rica January 2012: The simplicity of a home

We dumped one more wheelbarrow full of dirt, excavated one final spade full of crimson clay, and filled in one last wall seam with mortar. It is hard...

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Kicking through language barriers in Costa Rica

This is my second Global Village trip to a country where I don’t speak the native language. My first trip, to Honduras in 2007, was a real wake-up...

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Habitat volunteers reaching "el fin" in Costa Rica

As the sun begins to set on our trip with only one work day remaining, we’re all thinking of where we started and how far we’ve come over the past...

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Join Us on a Global Village Trip to Mozambique

September 28 to October 10, 2012

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