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Culture, Team

The One Question We Don’t Ask Interview Candidates

We already asked her what her superpower was. We asked her what is the hardest thing she has ever accomplished. We asked her what’s something ...

Brett Hagler

January 26

Impact, Partnerships

Rent is Due—What Now?

Afonso’s eviction notice in March wasn’t his family’s first. They were almost evicted in November, but he managed to scrape up enough money by driving ...

New Story

April 29

Culture, Innovation

We operate differently from most charitable organizations. Here’s why.

It all started, like a lot of good ideas do, with a problem. A couple of problems, actually. I was standing in Haiti in my ...

Brett Hagler

August 19

Innovation

A Human Centered Design Process is the Key to Building Better Homes

There is an old story about architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposing not to lay sidewalks at a university until students had a year to walk ...

Joanne Ng

February 15

An Impact Report for Q2 2021

To the New Story Family,  Five years ago, I visited Nuevo Cuscatlan. We were getting ready to build our first community in El Salvador, and ...

Brett Hagler

July 19

An Impact Report for Q1 2021

To the Builders,  Your support helped us power through the age of Covid in 2020 and into 2021. Because of this, we started the year ...

Brett Hagler

April 14

An Impact Report for Q3 2020

To the Builders, Your support helped us make bold pivots at the beginning of the pandemic that proved impactful in Q3. If our team’s story ...

Brett Hagler

October 16

Help Us Build the World’s Most Innovative Community

New Story is most known for 3D printing homes, but that’s only a small part of our story. It’s even just a small part of ...

Sarah Lee

October 14

How We Leverage Tech to Care for Families During COVID-19

We have always known that access to safe shelter impacts every other aspect of life, but this pandemic is proving it every day. Homes allow ...

Annie Brannon

October 5

The Financial Obstacles of Five Parties Ending Homelessness

The more we pursue our mission of ending global homelessness, the more problems we discover along the way. We define problems as anything standing in ...

Matthew Marshall

September 29

An Impact Data Report From Our COVID-19 Rent Relief Initiative

At the start of 2020, we had 1,029 homes under construction across nine communities in three countries. But COVID-19 forced us to pause every international ...

Annie Brannon

September 2

Founders Lab: Our New Course for the Impact-Driven Individual

As with many others, COVID-19 forced us to pause and ask ourselves, “In what ways is our team uniquely positioned to solve problems in a ...

Sarah Lee

September 2

Building Differently Through Five Years of Experimentation

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for the complex, growing problem of global homelessness. With more than 1.6 billion people worldwide lacking safe shelter and that ...

Joanne Ng

August 17

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