4 Walls and a Roof

The Black Hawk Cares Foundation, an extension of Black Hawk Capital Ventures’ commitment to social responsibility, addresses housing challenges for vulnerable populations, including those affected by natural disasters and veterans who are homeless. Our dual approach focuses on delivering permanent, affordable housing as well as short-term, rapid-response shelter solutions for emergency situations, such as disaster relief. The Black Hawk Cares Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives by providing affordable, sustainable housing solutions and empowering communities in need. We focus on bridging the gap between housing insecurity and stability by delivering both permanent housing and rapid response shelters for disaster relief. Our mission is to ensure that every individual has access to a safe and dignified place to call home, whether for long-term living or during times of crisis.

Housing Made Simple (HMS) provides sustainable and secure prefabricated, rapidly deployed micro-housing solutions. HMS’ innovative approach involves manufacturing cost-effective micro-housing units that seamlessly transform from efficiently transported modules into cozy temporary dwellings. Housing Made Simple’s rapidly deployable, cost-effective, efficiently designed housing solutions stand out for their superior structure, functional designs, and comfort making them ideal for diverse scenarios. Whether its serving as temporary housing, offering rapid response solutions after a disaster, aiding communities in providing shelter to the displaced, or fulfilling the long-term housing needs of various communities or businesses, Housing Made Simple is the go-to solution.

4 Walls and a Roof is Black Hawk Cares Foundations’ campaign branding for the mission to provide a semi-permanent home, one of the first tailor-made housing solutions, to satisfy 3 seemingly contradictory needs:

• To make the “housing solution” not just a “housing solution,” because displaced families don’t need a “housing solution,” they need something more. A home.
• To ensure that the home can be transported to a potentially hard-to-reach disaster zone almost as quickly as it would take to get a tent there…
• To make the process of deploying (and paying for) the home simple, pre-planned, and cost effective; without further financial hardship or stress on those in need.

The purpose of the house you donate is to ensure that families with nowhere to live after a disaster have a home to live in while rebuilding both their home and their lives. They may stay in that home for as long as needed, for several months to maybe a year or longer. But, after their old home gets re-built or they find a new permanent home, we take your house back, fold it up and place it in storage, ready for the next emergency. Unlike traditional modular structures, just as it is assembled, it can be rapidly disassembled, without impacting its structural integrity. The entire way, you’ll be able to check in through your dashboard and see when your house is serving, and where it is. Know this: Your house will be keeping families safe and secure for many, many years to come. Think 20+ years.

Yes! Black Hawk Cares Foundation was issued 501(c)(3) status with the IRS effective October 18, 2024. You can review our Status Here.

Yes! If you have a group campaign set up and actively raising donation funds for a home with BHCF, you can log into your donor dashboard to see the fundraising progress as well as what stage the home is in, or region it is deployed to at any time.

Your Mission, should you choose to accept it, is to mobilize your family, and your friends’ and neighbors’ families to be directly responsible for delivering happiness and security to a family without a place to call home. Once you have your “team” committed, go to 4WallsandaRoof.org or BlackHawkCares.org and go to "Contact Us":

1. Use the "Contact Us" page to reach out and let us know what you want to start a group fundraise.
2. We will send you a webform - Start with - give your family, group of families, church group - a name. (It could be the Jackson Family, or a name you choose, like Pickle Ball Club, Highpoint Church crusaders, or whatever.) List the members of your group, with emails, so we can keep you informed on the progress of your house. Tell us what you would like your campaign page to say and upload a photo to represent your team or mission. You will receive a customized webpage with a unique web address (URL) for your team to share with friends and family to raise donations to fund the home you are donating to 4 Walls and a Roof.
3. You choose an available region in need where you’d like your house to be deployed. 
4. You choose the house you’d like to deploy there - from the 156 sq ft “SwiftBuilt™ Rapid Response”, to the more spacious 400 sq ft “ExpandX™ Highland”, with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom.
5. The SwiftBuilt™ Rapid Response requires a target of $14,000 to be reached, the ExpandX™ Highland carries a target of $30,000. This includes the site prep, delivery, installation, plumbing and electrical hook up as well as a furniture and fixtures budget for adapting the units to the specific need.
6. Once you’ve chosen your house, you can also add an options package like bunkbeds or full-size beds, mini-fridges, TVs etc. (Furnishings and Fixtures package)
7. As the house is constructed in the factory, we can (at your option) put the name of your group on it - and the house will bear that name forever. 
8. You’ll be able to observe the progress of your group’s donation levels on a “meter” showing you how much of your house has been funded.
9. Once your campaign has been set up, you and your team will be able to monitor the fundraising progress, the deployment status of your donated home once completed, and even how many you have helped over the life of your donated home, all via your donor dashboard on the Black Hawk Cares Foundation’s web platform.

Yes, you can! If you would like to simply make a donation directly to support the 4 Walls and a Roof mission, you can just go to the “donate page” on the Black Hawk Cares Foundation website (blackhawkcares.org/donate), choose what you would like your donation to go toward (if you desire) and make your one-time or recurring donation.