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Local housing nonprofit group is now partnering with Fuller Center

SARANAC LAKE — The local affordable housing organization formerly known as Adirondack Habitat for Humanity is now operating under the umbrella of the Fuller Center for Housing.

The Fuller Center of the Adirondacks’ mission remains the same — to provide adequate and affordable housing for people in need in the Tri-Lakes area.

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 recommitment to the grassroots, Christian principles with which they launched their affordable housing movement in the early 1970s.

The Fuller Center for Housing (FullerCenter.org) builds and repairs homes in more than 70 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 4,550 families have partnered with the Fuller Center to receive assistance. The Fuller Center for Housing has been given a four-star “exceptional” rating by Charity Navigator and has received GuideStar’s highest-level Platinum rating for transparency.

Lee Foster, president of the Fuller Center of the Adirondacks, said the primary reason for joining the Fuller Center is the 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,” Foster said in a press release. “They provide assistance and expertise while we promise to adhere to the simple, grassroots, Christian principles that guide the work. Locally, our work will not appear any different, but we believe this transition will allow us to be more productive and maximize the generosity of our supporters.”

For more information, contact Calli Shelton, executive director, at 518-619-1999 or fullercenteradk@gmail.com.

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