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A Season of Generosity: 2025 Home for the Holidays Giving Recap

As we close out 2025, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for the generosity shown through our Home for the Holidays giving season.

This year’s campaign was a powerful reminder that affordable homeownership matters deeply to our community.

We were humbled to receive an extraordinary anonymous gift of $500,000 — a transformational investment in the future of Habitat for Humanity Calaveras. Alongside this remarkable donation, many other significant gifts from generous individuals, families, and partners helped propel Eureka Oaks forward.

Because of you:

• Infrastructure at Eureka Oaks is nearly complete.

• The neighborhood is taking shape.

• The first families are preparing for homeownership.

These funds were not symbolic. They were catalytic. They helped move this 107-home development from vision to visible progress.

Our Home for the Holidays event itself was a meaningful celebration of partnership and impact. We were honored to welcome Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Gary Tofanelli, City of Angels Camp Mayor Mike Chimente, and Pastor Chris Muetterties.

Especially powerful was hearing from one of our recent homeowners as she shared her Habitat journey, along with a veteran home repair family who spoke about how critical repairs changed their stability and peace of mind.

We are also grateful to FOX40 for covering our event and helping amplify the story of affordable homeownership in Calaveras County. You can view their news segment above.

These stories remind us that this work is not about buildings — it is about families.

We are incredibly proud of our community and the partnerships we have formed. Large-scale projects like Eureka Oaks only happen when public leaders, donors, volunteers, and families come together with shared purpose.

And yet, our work is not finished.

Eureka Oaks will welcome 107 new families into safe, stable, and affordable homes. Every single home represents equity built, stability gained, and generational change in motion. Each gift — large and small — moves us one step closer to completion.

Affordable housing is not built overnight. It requires partnership, persistence, and people who believe in the long game.

To every donor who gave during Home for the Holidays: thank you. Your generosity is not just funding construction. It is building opportunity, stability, and hope for generations to come.

We have made incredible progress. And together, we will finish what we started.