HEARTS & HAMMERS
Restoring Homes. Touching Lives.
Hearts & Hammers works to keep people safely in the homes they love. We serve communities across the seven-county Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area and the Dallas–Fort Worth Area.
Mission:
Hearts & Hammers strengthens communities by providing volunteer-driven exterior home repairs that enable qualifying seniors, disabled individuals, and veterans to live safely, independently, and with dignity in their own homes.
Vision:
Communities where every Senior, Disabled Individual, and Veteran homeowner can live safely, independently, and with dignity in their own homes.
Purpose
To prevent displacement, support aging in place, and preserve the dignity of our neighbors through free, volunteer-powered home repairs.
Our History
Hearts & Hammers traces its roots to 1986, when architect and returned Peace Corps volunteer Bob Walker gathered twenty-four volunteers to refurbish the home of an elderly minister in Dallas. The group completed nine more homes the following year, and Hearts & Hammers was founded in 1987.
After relocating to the Twin Cities in 1997, Walker helped establish the Minnesota chapter of Hearts & Hammers, which continues to expand its work each year.
Today, Hearts & Hammers operates as one nonprofit organization, uniting its Minnesota and Texas programs under shared leadership and values. What began as a single home painted by twenty-four volunteers has grown into thousands of volunteers completing exterior repairs on thousands of homes across the Twin Cities and Dallas–Fort Worth communities.
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