2008

April – Earth Day Blitz Build in West Virginia (HFH affiliate and FC covenant partner joined forces. 

Four new programs added for group-specific involvement with FCH: Faith Builders, Global Builders, RV Builders and Disaster ReBuilders. 

First BIKE ADVENTIURE 1,300 miles from Pacific to Atlantic Coast led by Ryan Iafigliola. 

November
November 19-21 -  Third Annual Millard and Linda Fuller Blitz Build in Santa Clara, El Salvador.
FCH is in 20 states and 13 nations (Armenia & Philippines added). 

2009 

January – First Covenant Partners Conference held in Suffolk, Va. 

February
February 3 – Millard Fuller dies unexpectedly. Buried in unmarked grave at Koinonia near Clarence Jordan's grave site in accordance with his wishes. 

February 4 – Ad hoc meeting of FCH board held at Fuller home following burial. It was strongly affirmed to continue FCH and tentatively appointed David Snell as new president.

March
March 15 – Millard Fuller Memorial Celebration held at New Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. FCH board officially affirms David Snell as new president of FCH. 

April
April – Faith Fuller becomes new VP of Communications for FCH. Linda Fuller becomes fully engaged with carrying on the mission of the Fuller Center. 

May
May – Launch of $1 Million for Millard campaign utilizing Stanley's $500,000 matching grant. $1 million goal reached prior to Aug. 30 deadline.

July
July 10–August 16 - 1,300-mile BIKE ADVENTURE (Benton Harbor, Mich. to Florida Gulf Coast) led by FCH Director of Special Programs Ryan Iafigliola with goals to raise awareness about the FCH as well as $200,000. 
 

August
Aug. 30 – Millard Fuller Legacy Build Kick-off Celebration held at Community Center SportsPlex in Lanett, Ala. with President Jimmy Carter and Morris Dees as keynote speakers. 

Aug. 31–Sept. 4 – Inaugural Millard Fuller Legacy Build, Lanett, Ala. and West Point, Ga.

2010

January
Jan. 15-16 - Second Covenant Partner Conference held in Shreveport, La. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Fuller Center announces intention of building $3,000 homes.

February
February 3 - Remembering Millard events held in honor of Millard Fuller one year after his death, including Fuller Center staff build day in Americus, Ga.

March
March 15-27 - 5th Anniversary Build - More than 100 volunteers gathered at three covenant partner locations in Louisiana to work on five new homes. 

June
June 20 - August 8 - 3rd annual Bike Adventure from Niagara Falls to New Orleans raises $136,000.

September
September 3-11 - 2nd annual Millard Fuller Legacy Build held in Indianapolis, Ind.

2011

January
January 14 - Kimberly Lacy, star of HGTV's "Curb Appeal: The Block", becomes an ambassador for The Fuller Center for Housing.

Ginger Ford Habitat for Humanity and The Northshore Fuller Center for Housing merge under The Fuller Center for Housing umbrella as the Ginger Ford Northshore Fuller Center for Housing.

March
Louisville Fuller Center hosts the Derby City Build, renovating and building five homes to start a major revitalization of the Shawnee neighborhood on the West End -- a project that continues to thrive today.

April
April 2 - In an emotional homecoming, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Himan, is handed the keys to a home refurbished by the Northern Virginia Fuller Center for Housing, a home that is completely accessible for the wheelchair-bound veteran who was injured while serving in Afghanistan. The event garners national coverage from Fox News.

June
The fourth annual Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure begins in Seattle after a rough trip through Idaho in which the team's van crashes. Donors quickly step up to fund the purchase of a new van for the highly successful fundraising Adventure.

Faith Fuller, daughter of Millard and Linda Fuller, steps down after a longer-than-expected stint as Vice President of Communications. She is replaced by veteran newspaper journalist and writer Chris Johnson, who continues to write a weekly column for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer.

The Fuller Center of Greater Atlanta puts 400 lawyers to work in a special project with Hands On Atlanta in the Lakewood Heights area.

June 20 - Fuller Center co-founder Linda Fuller marries Paul Degelmann in Americus, Ga.

August

A Fuller Center team, including David Snell, Ryan Iafigliola and Kirk Lyman-Barner, visit operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While there, the team sees some of the first houses built by Millard and Linda Fuller in 1973, when they launched the world's affordable housing movement in what was then known as Zaire.

August 14 - Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure ends in Washington, D.C., having pushed its four-year fundraising total to more than $500,000.

August 14 - Glen Barton, Vice President for U.S. Field Operations, dies unexpectedly at the age of 61.

August 31 - Kirk Lyman-Barner is named Director of U.S. Field Operations.

September

September 1 - For the first time, The Fuller Center for Housing is a choice for federal employees as they select charities to whom they wish to contribute through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC Member No. 32458)

September 5-9 - "Miracle on St. Paul Street" continues. Returning to the site of the 2010 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Indianapolis, teams build two new homes and rehab two others.

October

October 17-21 - Eight new homes are built and seven homes receive Greater Blessing repair work during the 2011 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Minden, La.

November

New covenant partners added in Joplin, Mo., and Honduras.

December

A team of six men representing The Fuller Center for Housing visit the site of a proposed home-building and peace-building project in North Korea one week before the death of North Korean lead Kim Jong Il. Fuller Center President David Snell puts a hold on work in North Korea until the situation is deemed stable and ready for work to proceed.

The Fuller Center's Global Builders program reports a record-shattering year with 36 trips and 419 participants.

New covenant partner added in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, joining Fuller Center's other DRC partner, Bolomba.

2012

January

Fuller Center launches Save a House/Make a Home initiative to take foreclosed homes deemed "toxic assets" by banks and turn them into homes for families. It's an initiative that benefits families, banks, communities and the housing market itself.

New covenant partners added in New Iberia, La.; Tupelo, Miss.; Elk City, Okla.; and Nicaragua.

After years of working in Kankad, Nepal, The Fuller Center dedicates its first home in Trishuli, Nepal.

March

Global Builders program hits 1,000-participant milestone during work trip to Haiti. The nonprofit One Small House partners with The Fuller Center to build first of three new duplexes in Lambi community during trip.

New covenant partners added in Lewiston, Idaho, and Senegal.

March 11-17 - Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure holds its first-ever spring ride, a 400-mile trek down The Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss.

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