{"id":109006,"date":"2024-10-01T06:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109006"},"modified":"2024-10-01T06:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T23:31:48","slug":"a-concert-and-30-new-homes-mark-jimmy-carters-100th-birthday-and-long-legacy-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109006","title":{"rendered":"A concert and 30 new homes mark Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 100th birthday and long legacy of giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-carter-100th-birthday-concert-3a40776438f79bf09b15b2c980cf993d\">benefit concert<\/a><\/span> and the construction of 30 new homes are among the many events marking <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jimmy-carter\">President Jimmy Carter<\/a><\/span> \u2018s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-carter-outsider-legacy-birthday-100-d686b420122566f0ce741646165e0b66\">100th birthday on Oct. 1<\/a><\/span>. Considering the former president\u2019s long legacy as a philanthropist, it\u2019s no surprise that he wants any gift-giving to go to other people.<\/p>\n<p>The star-studded concert at Atlanta\u2019s Fox Theatre earlier in September has raised $1.2 million so far to support the international programs of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/videos-1e4a0572636c487db73fe3327cf4af06\">The Carter Center,<\/a><\/span> which Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982 with the mission to \u201c <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-carter-human-rights-1a7853176b43bc0c73e48266fcc882da\">wage peace<\/a><\/span>, fight disease, and build hope.\u201d The concert airs on Georgia Public Broadcasting on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, thousands of Habitat for Humanity volunteers gathered Monday to build 30 homes in St. Paul, Minnesota, over five days, led by country music giants <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/garth-brooks-trisha-yearwood-habitat-for-humanity-da4e0fc768b94087333a5c5bb9e06648\">Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood<\/a><\/span>, who worked alongside the Carters for years, beginning with projects in Hurricane Katrina\u2019s disaster area.<\/p>\n<p>The Carters\u2019 relationship with Habitat for Humanity stretches back 40 years, to when the couple went to New York City on a build in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe image of a president of the United States sleeping in a church basement and physically helping rehab a tenement building captured the world,\u201d said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. The Carters went on to build homes annually for 35 years. Carter repeatedly said that working with the organization was a way he put his Christian faith into action, Reckford recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Cleora Taylor, a medical assistant, met the Carters in August 2018 when they helped build 41 new homes in South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Taylor recalled how the former president greeted her by name and knew about her children, including her daughter, who was 11 at the time and has autism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means so much to me that he knew me,\u201d said Taylor, speaking from her living room in the home The Carters helped her build, on a street named Carter Court. \u201cHe\u2019s just such a good, welcoming, humble guy. I\u2019m just glad to be a part of a legacy that he\u2019s leaving behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presidential historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander, professor of Virginia Black history and culture at Norfolk State University, said the strength of Carter\u2019s legacy is in his morality. Unlike many who claim to care about the disadvantaged, Carter has shown that they \u2014 and not power or money \u2014 are his main concern, Newby-Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he has probably done more personally in his post-presidency than anyone else because he\u2019s not out there looking for attention,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s looking to change things. He\u2019s not out there trying to make money for himself. He\u2019s out there trying to live the life of a Christian \u2014 a true Christian, one who cares about the poor and the homeless and the children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While leadership in philanthropy is often gauged by the size of donations or the heft of assets under management, Carter\u2019s giving came in the form of his seemingly ceaseless personal effort. From building homes to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-ap-top-news-ga-state-wire-politics-3d5618cb1dbf93b4f5c398d14e7809f0\">monitoring elections<\/a><\/span> and pursuing the elimination of a painful but neglected disease, Carter used his stature and presence to rally resources and attention to his causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn so many ways, he set the standard for how presidents should be in their post-presidency, as someone who is going to continue to do good, someone who\u2019s going to continue to positively impact society,\u201d Newby-Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p>Carter\u2019s legacy of giving back also includes working to eradicate Guinea worm, a commitment The Carter Center has made since 1986. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had identified the disease as a candidate for eradication after smallpox. Carter took up the mantle, vowing to outlive the last such parasite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the demise of the worm\u201d is the catchphrase, according to Dr. Jordan Tappero, deputy director for neglected tropical diseases at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, which has given $263 million to The Carter Center since 2000, mostly to support its work on Guinea worm. <\/p>\n<p>The number of cases has fallen from 3.5 million when the center started to only 13 known cases in humans in 2022, and now focuses on closing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-skin-conditions-atlanta-south-sudan-central-african-republic-e7f12b17a6661907874ea05e77f83094\">the \u201clast mile\u201d of infections<\/a><\/span> in several African countries. Even after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-government-gerald-ford-ronald-reagan-hospice-care-f4e26c10a7b366f14e62f690da403b0a\">Carter entered hospice<\/a><\/span> in February 2023, Tappero said, Carter was still contacting his team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still wants updates and wants to know what\u2019s going on because his mind will never stop until the last heartbeat,\u201d Tappero said, speaking in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Carter engaged directly with health ministries and heads of state to muster their commitment to public health interventions, said Steven M. Hilton of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Since 1991, the foundation said it has committed nearly $50 million to The Carter Center for eradicating Guinea worm and to support its work treating and controlling trachoma, a disease that can cause irreversible blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton considers Carter to be \u201ca remarkable man with a deeply compassionate heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel fortunate to have witnessed firsthand the strength of his character, including his dedication to seeing enormous humanitarian challenges through to the end,\u201d Hilton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Tappero draws inspiration from the Carters\u2019 humility, energy and dedication. \u201cIf we all had one-fifth of his energy, commitment and passion,\u201d he said, \u201cthe world would be a much better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who lives near South Bend, Indiana, said she saw that commitment firsthand as Carter, 93 at the time, helped her put up a kitchen wall in her four-bedroom home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just so amazing that he still was out here, outside at that age, working with us,\u201d she said. \u201cIt made us want to work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She still gets emotional thinking about that week, an incredible opportunity for her and her four kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did I get to meet Jimmy Carter and his wife and his children and hundreds of volunteers, other celebrities, I get to own a piece of the world. I get to own a piece of land,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought that I would be able to do something like that, being a single mother. And for them to have to put so much into it, the volunteers and for Jimmy Carter to actually be here? It was amazing for people to care like he cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press Writer Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP\u2019s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. 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