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Hey Habitat! Sign up to help us out with our Spring Cleaning event! For those of you who participated in our Trick-or-Treat fundraiser, this will be very familiar to you. We’ll be going around Ann Arbor dropping off flyers asking for donations on Wednesday, March 31 and we’ll come back on Thursday, April 8 to pick up those donations! You’ll get 30 nails for coming on Wednesday and 50 for coming on Thursday. Also, we’ll be having a pizza party right after the donation pick up on Thursday! It will be a blast!

We opened the sign up a little early for our build day on April 3rd. This is the last build day for the semester, and we hope to see you there!

http://www.umhabitat.org/get-involved/volunteer/events/2010/04/03/build-day

Hey Habitat! Here is another nails update. Please use the following instructions:

PCs - You will need to have macros enabled to use it - if you don’t, when you open the file, Excel should automatically tell you and give you the option to enable them.

Macs - Using Excel, press “Open” at the prompt labeled “This file contains Visual Basic macros” and “Open as Read-Only” at the prompt labeled “This workbook contains content that is not supported by Excel 2008 for Mac.” Once you have the worksheet open go to “Format” select “Unhide…” from the “Sheet” menu.

If you are interested in being a member of CORE (Habitat’s executive board) for the 2010-2011 academic year are invited to send in an application. The following positions will be available:

2 Fundraising Chairs

Publicity Chair

Community Relations

Travel Coordinator (encompassing the old position of Collegiate Challenge in addition to a few new responsibilities)

You may ask to be considered for multiple positions, but please list them on your application in order from most desirable to least.

Looking for a way to meet other Habitat members and socialize with volunteers who enjoy demolishing old homes in order to build new ones just as much as you do? Then why not bowl with Habitat at Colonial Lanes! This is our first social event of the year and it’s going to be a blast!

When: Thursday, February 11th

Time: Meet at the Ginsberg Center (corner of Hill and East U) at 6:30pm. We will be providing all transportation to and from Colonial Lanes.

Hey Habitat,

Check us out in the Michigan Daily!

This Saturday from 7-9 p.m., Habitat for Humanity at U-M will be hosting its annual skate night. $6 covers admission and skate rental, and $4 will cover your admission if you bring your own skates. Awards will be given to those who possess the speed of Apolo Anton Ohno, the grace of Kristi Yamaguchi, and the win-at-all-costs mentality of Tonya Harding. Awards will also be of the non-tangible variety.

While you’re searching for the perfect presents to give, why not help out Habitat at the same time? Instead of using Google as a search engine, try out GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo!) and they’ll donate a penny to our organization every time you make a search. Just make sure to select “Habitat for Humanity - University of Michigan” on the front page as your charity. In addition, head on over to GoodShop.com to shop online at over 600 merchants including Best Buy, Meijer, and Amazon. You’ll find special coupons and discounts, and a percentage of each purchase will go to Habitat.

Hey Habitat! Here is another nails update. Please use the following instructions:

PCs - You will need to have macros enabled to use it - if you don’t, when you open the file, Excel should automatically tell you and give you the option to enable them.

Macs - Using Excel, press “Open” at the prompt labeled “This file contains Visual Basic macros” and “Open as Read-Only” at the prompt labeled “This workbook contains content that is not supported by Excel 2008 for Mac.” Once you have the worksheet open go to “Format” select “Unhide…” from the “Sheet” menu.

Hey Habitat!

Here is a nails update as of the end of October. You will need to have macros enabled in order to use it - if you don’t, Excel should automatically tell you and give you the option to enable them. If you have any questions about the format/can’t get it to work or if there are any issues with your points total (there probably are, so check carefully!), please email clemenfu@umich.edu. Thanks!