Against the backdrop of today’s rising sun in Minden, La., hundreds of tool belt-clad volunteers raised the walls of eight new Fuller Center homes lining Millard Fuller Drive. In other parts of the neighborhood, more wielded power tools, hammers and nails to renovate another seven. Their early morning efforts kicked off the Millard Fuller Legacy Build […]
By Ryan Iafigliola Director of International Field Operations Almost five years ago, I felt led by God and life circumstances to create the Fuller Center Bike Adventure. Mack McCarter, our friend the founder of Community Renewal International, shared a nugget of wisdom with me:Any fool can count the number of seeds in an apple, he […]
The Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure (FCBA) has just announced they’ll be launching a weeklong, 400-mile ride down the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway from March 9–17. "We’re very excited about this ride because we will not only get to have the chance to ride down the Natchez Trace, which I’ve heard nothing but great things about […]
By Leah Gernetzke Communications/Multimedia Specialist A melody sung by strong female voices floats through the air of the construction site, cutting through the humid, skin-clinging air that blankets Gressier, Haiti. The voices float down to the edge of the palm tree-lined property, accented by the sloshing of water in buckets that are passed […]
Last month a group of eleven women, including HGTV personality Kimberly Lacy, traveled to Haiti with The Fuller Center for Housing to build homes for displaced people still living in tent cities after the 2010 earthquake. Thanks to a generous clothing donation by Carhartt, a family-owned clothing company founded in 1889, the women were clad […]
With less than a month to go until the 2011 Millard Fuller Legacy Build, it’s time to get excited for this week-long blitz build in Minden, Louisiana! Check out our first video on the build, created by Scott Umstattd:
Thanks to a $15,000 grant from Wells Fargo, construction on a new community building on Kononia Farm is almost underway. “It’s a tremendous opportunity, and we were happy to support it,” Connie Bryant, Wells Fargo’s vice president and senior community development officer for the Greater Georgia region, said of the project. Both The Fuller Center […]
(The Fuller Center’s Leah Gernetzke recently accompanied a team of women to Haiti for a build. This is her blog post about the trip’s final days.) Today we had a major breakthrough – we received the shipping containers full of concrete molds for the concrete bricks that form our Fuller Center homes. That might not […]
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