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Atlanta Habitat In the News2013Blank Family of Businesses Set for Fifth All Associates Day Hard-working volunteers from the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Falcons Physical Therapy Centers, PGA TOUR Superstores, AMB Group, and The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation will be landscaping and painting at KIPP WAYS Academy in the Washington Park community of Atlanta. Other Blank associates will be taking part in the Atlanta Habitat for Humanity’s “Brush With Kindness” program, where they will make minor repairs and assist in the exterior painting of five homes in the English Avenue neighborhood. Blank Family of Businesses Set for Fifth All Associates Day Clark Howard Reaches Milestone with Atlanta Habitat In January 1996, consumer advocate Clark Howard found a special way to celebrate the New Year–– he sponsored a house with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. By 2000, he was building several houses each year, and on Saturday, Howard will begin construction on his 50th quality, green Habitat home. https://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2013-01-25/46825-clark-howard-atlanta-habitat Atlanta Interfaith Build The Mayes family are no strangers to Habitat. Grandmother Peggy has lived in her Habitat house for more than 15 years, and sister Tamiko and other family members have partnered with Habitat, as well. Brothers Willie and Jamarcus knew how the process worked and were excited about building their own new home, but they didn’t expect the extra “new” it would bring them. The Mayes brothers’ house is the focus of an interfaith build event coordinated by Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta. http://magazine.habitat.org/stories/theme-builds/interfaith 2012 Habitat to Open Hundreds of New ReStores Habitat for Humanity International is going from building homes to developing its own retail business. Read article TechBridge Supporters Continue Commitment to Atlanta Habitat for Humanity Atlanta-based TechBridge, a nonprofit committed to improving our community by helping nonprofits be more impactful through technology, is pleased to announce the construction of its eighth Technology Community Habitat house, in partnership with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. Eleven corporate sponsors have joined together to continue the annual tradition of building a new home in partnership with a qualified, working Atlanta family. https://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2012-04-16/45177-techbridge-habitat-build/email Marist Women Build Raises Wall on Its 10th Home It’s Saturday afternoon and some 30 women wearing matching pink hardhats are lined up on the construction site in south Atlanta. The leader says, “Get ready, it’s going to take all of us. 1-2-3 lift!” http://www.thecrier.net/news/article_47b5e082-781c-11e1-8b3c-001871e3ce6c.html Putting Up Walls On Saturday, as the rest of the churches assembled for a morning service, the high school students from my church were on the west side of Atlanta, just off Woodward Avenue, standing in a slightly chilly warehouse and facing a daunting task: frame out an entire four-bedroom house in one day. Which doesn’t sound too bad until you consider that the eight hours available to us were for building all of the walls (interior and exterior) from scratch, hauling said walls to the build site, and then attaching said walls to the floor decking. http://jasonbrooks.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/putting-up-walls/
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