“It was a tiny organization in 1984 when President and Mrs. Carter went up with a busload of volunteers from southwest Georgia to help rehab a tenement building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,” said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, in an interview in 2023.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, take place Thursday. A Houston tribute planned Tuesday.

Former President Jimmy Carter will be buried in the small town where he lived, married, and died: Plains, Georgia. Carter spent more than 80 of his 100 years in and around the town, which still has fewer than 700 people,

Carter, a Georgia Democrat who served as U.S. president from 1977-81, died Dec. 29 at age 100. He helped provide housing opportunities in Houston and across the country.

A significant gathering of leaders and family members honoring former president Jimmy Carter’s legacy are expected at his state funeral service on Thursday.

In Houston, they are planning to let members ... “This is a big opportunity for my kids and I to be a part of this.” Rosalynn Carter, who died in 2023, was long an advocate for mental health ...

Houston leaders gathered at the Barbara Bush ... According to Habitat for Humanity, the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project has helped build, renovate, and repair more than 4,000 homes with ...

For Jason Carter, one simple sandwich evokes special Christmas memories of his late grandmother, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Instead of reflecting on her numerous social and political accomplishments, Jason chooses to remember Rosalynn as he saw her ...

The U.S. and the world mourned and reflected on the legacy of the country's 39th president, Jimmy Carter, Sunday. The former president, revered for his humanitarianism, died in his hometown of ...

While the funeral of Former President Jimmy Carter marked the end of his remarkable story, that story will live on.

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.

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