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Review for Fuller Center For Housing Inc, Americus, GA, USA
After almost five years in business and between 3-5 million dollars per year raised, Fuller Center has built fewer than 150 houses, most of these are low-cost houses overseas which have taken 2-3 years to complete. The Fuller Center publishes almost no information about their "numbers," but they do publish lots of praise for founder Millard Fuller. Having spent time at their headquarters, I can say that the organization exists primarily to vindicate Fuller, who was ousted from Habitat for Humanity, and to keep his family and acolytes employed. Access to budgets showed me that this organization spends a tremendous amount of money on fundraising and failed marketing schemes as well as consultants who underperform. Sadly, I was one of them. Their idea for rehabbing houses versus building new ones is great, but take a look at Rebuilding Together, a great performer in that area.
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The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Not qualified to work in a more professional organization.
Ways to make it better...
It was able to attract staff and board members with professional backgrounds and skills that could benefit the organization
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2009
Actually, as of October 2017, The Fuller Center had built or repaired more than 4,100 homes. The latest audit shows that more than 90 percent of donations go directly to program, which is far higher than most nonprofits. No one from the late Millard Fuller's family is employed by the nonprofit, although co-founder Linda Fuller remains active in promoting and volunteering for the ministry.
