Joplin Area Habitat For Humanity Gets $60,000 Recovery Fund Grant


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The Joplin Area Habitat For Humanity has been awarded a $60,000 Joplin Recovery Fund Grant from the Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri.

The grant will enable Habitat to construct two more homes in the ongoing effort to get all Joplin families back into permanent housing, after three years after the 2011 tornado.


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