Celebrity Spotlight: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong
While he might have sung about a “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, Green Day lead vocalist, Billie Joe Armstrong, devoted his time to help build a Habitat home, making a deserving family’s dreams a reality. Green Day is Born Armstrong is the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter for Green Day. The band is credited for […]
Celebrity Spotlight: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift has helped make deserving families’ “Wildest Dreams” come true with her donation of $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge. But the superstar’s generosity doesn’t stop there. She’s helped to support numerous charitable causes, showing that her astounding success can be used as a powerful platform to create change. From humble […]
Celebrity Spotlight: Jacqueline Fernandez
As a famous Bollywood actress and Miss Universe of Sri Lanka 2006, you might not think of Jacqueline Fernandez as an individual devoted to giving back. In reality, she’s used her fame as a platform to bolster support for Habitat and has helped tens of thousands of families. Jacqueline Fernandez Fernandez is a former model, […]
Celebrity Spotlight: Kylie Jenner
When you think of the name Kylie Jenner, several things might come to mind: youngest-ever self-made billionaire, makeup mogul or star from Keeping Up with the Kardashians. What many people don’t know, is that she’s also a Habitat home sponsor. 21st birthday wish For her 21st birthday, Jenner’s wish was to help support local hardworking […]
Celebrity Spotlight: Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood
To country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, the sound of a saw scraping back and forth or the steady pounding of a hammer is music to their ears. These committed volunteers have given their time to Habitat for over a decade, raising awareness about the work we do and raising spirits of fellow volunteers […]
Celebrity Spotlight: The Carters
One of the most persistent myths we hear at Habitat for Humanity is that that former president Jimmy Carter founded our charity. Although that is not true, the Carters have been highly-dedicated volunteers of our organization for the past 35 years. Throughout his time in the White House, Jimmy Carter used his platform to shed […]