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New Fuller Center for Housing partner launches in area to help local families

The Fuller Center for Housing has officially welcomed a new covenant partner to its affordable housing ministry, [insert official FCH name]. The Fuller Center extends a hand-up to families in need of simple, decent and affordable places to live.

The Fuller Center for Housing — headquartered in Americus, Georgia — was founded in 2005 by Millard and Linda Fuller, the same couple who founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976. The Fullers founded the nonprofit as a re-commitment to the grass-roots, Christian principles with which they launched their affordable housing movement in the early 1970s.

A 1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Millard passed away in 2009, but Linda remains active in the ministry. Millard was succeeded as president by long-time friend and colleague, David Snell, who continues to lead the international organization today. The Fuller Center for Housing has been given a 100% score for transparency and accountability from Charity Navigator and has received GuideStar’s highest-level Platinum rating for transparency.

The Fuller Center for Housing (FullerCenter.org) builds and repairs homes in more than 80 U.S. communities and more than 20 countries around the world. Homeowners are full partners in the building process — contributing sweat equity as they work alongside volunteers and then repaying the costs of materials on terms they can afford, with no interest charged or profit made. Those repayments stay in the local community to help others get the same hand-up. More than 5,000 families have partnered with The Fuller Center to receive assistance.

[Name,] president of the [local FCH name] said that a primary reason for joining The Fuller Center is the international headquarters’ guiding principles that place emphasis on local decision-making rather than a top-down, bureaucratic approach.

“The Fuller Center believes that local leaders are in the best position to decide what our community needs and the most effective ways to address those needs,” [name] said. “They provide assistance and expertise while we promise to adhere to the simple, grass-roots, Christian principles that guide the work. Ultimately, the goal is to help families help themselves. And the house is the basic building block of the family.”

For more information, contact [local contact info here] or visit [website].