Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee is the state office for Tennessee’s 40 affiliates, providing education, technical assistance, and resources to empower Tennessee’s 40 affiliates while they work on the ground making a difference in their local communities.

  • Education and Technical Assistance: We provide education and technical assistance in nonprofit best practices, mortgage services, fundraising, construction, and regulatory compliance to local affiliates.

  • Resource Development: We develop partnerships that bring funding, people, supplies, and technology to local affiliates, which broadens our impact on the housing needs of our neighbors.

  • Disaster Services: We prepare affiliates and communities for disasters and coordinate for long term recovery after disaster strikes.

  • Advocacy: We raise awareness on housing issues by serving as a liaison, thought-leader, and policy advisors to lawmakers, elected officials, and state agencies.

“The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love.”

Clarence Jordan – Spiritual Father of Habitat

The Principles of Our Ministry

We undertake our work to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus, acting in all ways in accord with the belief that God’s love and grace abound for all, and that we must be “hands and feet” of that love and grace in our world. We believe that, through faith, the minuscule can be multiplied to accomplish the magnificent, and that, in faith, respectful relationships can grow among all people.

We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God’s love, to create opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate or preserve homes, and by partnering with others to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.

In response to the prophet Micah’s call to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we support the global community’s commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.

We believe that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. We believe that every person has something to contribute and something to gain from creating communities in which all people have decent, affordable places to live. We believe that dignity and hope are best achieved through equitable, accountable partnerships.

We view our work as successful when it transforms lives and promotes positive and lasting social, economic and spiritual change within a community; when it is based on mutual trust and fully shared accomplishment; and when it demonstrates responsible stewardship of all resources entrusted to us.

Non-Proselytizing Policy

Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliated organizations will not proselytize. Nor will HFH work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with HFH. This means that HFH will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.