Tag: Habitat for Humanity

Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project thrives as Millard Fuller’s energy lives on in hometown

Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project thrives as Millard Fuller’s energy lives on in hometown

Photo: Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project project manager Matt Lawson-Boothy and Executive Director Kim Roberts in front of home No. 74 on North 12th Avenue in Lanett, Alabama, during this week’s Millard Fuller Legacy Build. Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project thrives as Millard Fuller’s energy lives on in hometown LANETT, Alabama — With the two homes coming […]

Millard Fuller’s law office, first Habitat headquarters, donated to Fuller Center

Millard Fuller’s law office, first Habitat headquarters, donated to Fuller Center

As Linda Fuller strolled through the building that once housed Millard Fuller’s law practice and the first headquarters of Habitat for Humanity on Church Street in Americus, Georgia, she reminisced about the simplest of times at the birth of the affordable housing movement. She noted the dust that had settled on the desk where she […]

Legacy Build Day 4: For Doug Miller this week is all about one day — Dedication Day

Legacy Build Day 4: For Doug Miller this week is all about one day — Dedication Day

(Photo: Doug Miller is serving as a block captain at this year’s Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Indianapolis. He has been to numerous builds in the U.S. and internationally and is a generous financial supporter of The Fuller Center for Housing’s work.) The Millard Fuller Legacy Build is a weeklong project, but for longtime Fuller […]

Former Habitat affiliate in Houston, Miss., sees ‘a better fit’ with Fuller Center

Former Habitat affiliate in Houston, Miss., sees ‘a better fit’ with Fuller Center

The Fuller Center for Housing’s newest covenant partner in Houston, Mississippi, is featured in a new article by the Chickasaw Journal in which local president Randy Rinehart explains the decision to part with Habitat for Humanity. “Habitat is a great organization, but they have a lot of rules and regulation that can be expensive to […]

Another former Habitat affiliate joins grass-roots Fuller Center for Housing

Another former Habitat affiliate joins grass-roots Fuller Center for Housing

The name may be different, but the mission remains the same — help families in need have simple, decent places to live through a hand up instead of a handout. So says Anthony Sulkevich of the former Hazleton Area Habitat for Humanity, which has transitioned into the Hazleton Area Fuller Center for Housing, joining nearly […]

Housing group in Warrensburg, Missouri, explains switch to Fuller Center

Housing group in Warrensburg, Missouri, explains switch to Fuller Center

The real work of The Fuller Center is performed at the local level — where funds are raised, volunteers are mobilized, families are selected and nurtured, and houses are built or rehabilitated. One of the founding principles of The Fuller Center is that local leaders know best what their community needs, so the international headquarters […]

Happy 75th birthday, Linda Fuller! Your “Stop!” makes us “Go!”

Happy 75th birthday, Linda Fuller! Your “Stop!” makes us “Go!”

  Support the #Linda75 campaign For the better part of her life, Linda Fuller has been at the vanguard of the affordable housing movement — in fact, she gets the credit for starting it! When Millard’s ambition to be a millionaire got in the way of his family obligations, it was Linda who said “Stop!” […]