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 ...

Cameron Bartlett

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 ...

Cameron Bartlett

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 ...

Tim Whitacre

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 ...

Tim Whitacre

February 15

Welcoming Sandra Prieto to New Story’s Executive Team

Meet Sandra Prieto, a woman whose work in market-driven affordable housing programs has impacted more than 8 million people. After consulting with New Story for ...

Luke Baker

September 7

Q&A with New Story’s Director of People & Culture

At New Story, we pride ourselves on being different than traditional nonprofits. This is most seen in our innovations — but it starts with our ...

Sophia O'Rourke

August 12

An Impact Report for Q3 2021

To our New Story family, We finished Q3 with an exciting moment: The New York Times featured our work on their front page of the ...

Brett Hagler

October 13

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