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World Shelters has reached the final stage of competition in the renowned Buckminster Fuller Challenge. World Shelters’ entry “Sheltering U.S. Persons Unsheltered: Creating Legally Conforming, Economically Sustainable Emergency and Transitional Shelter” is one of 30 entries (out of 215) to advance to the final stage of competition for the $100,000 prize.
The competition honors Buckminster Fuller’s [...]
World Shelters, with the generous support of Pacific Domes and our other donors, has shipments under way to Haiti for over 7000 sq ft of structures to meet the expressed needs of both Doctors Without Borders, (Medicins Sans Frontieres, MSF) and Hopital Adventiste / ACTS World Relief. The World Shelters team in Haiti, Jason [...]
World Shelters is sending approximately 3,500 square feet of shelter for medical facilities to Haiti this month.
The generosity of World Shelters’ donors and Ashland, OR-based Pacific Domes has allowed World Shelters to contribute two “U-Dome” shelters and two Pacific Domes 44’ diameter shelters, with a combined value of over $70,000.
These shelters will provide over [...]
The devastation from the January 12 earthquake in Haiti is horrific. Loss of life and survivors’ injuries are at an unprecedented scale for this region. The extent of building collapse and damage will soon become clearer but is extremely widespread. A significant percentage of homes and commercial/municipal buildings will need to be [...]
DocuCinema Founder Lee Schneider (who is producing the SHELTER movie) discussed the increasing problem of persons unsheltered in California as well as World Shelters’ solution to this problem in the Dec. 11 Huffington Post article Running the Numbers: Homelessness in America
Schneider discussed the Ventura County Star’s report from earlier this year that addressed the [...]
On October 8, World Shelters was featured on The Huffington Post, where DocuCinema’s Lee Schneider blogged about the SHELTER movie he is producing, which features World Shelter’s River Haven project in Ventura. He begins:
Over a dozen volunteers came together on the weekend of October 10-11 to lay gravel and construct shelter platforms at the Arcata Night Shelter site, located just north of Arcata. The U-Domes will be assembled by more volunteers on October 24, which is national “Make a Difference Day” (If you would like to volunteer, call [...]
Two talented filmmakers are teaming up to make a documentary about shelters and – you’ve guessed it! They have selected World Shelters as one of their subjects. The SHELTER movie is being co-produced by Lee Schneider (of DocuCinema) and Richard Neill (of Adventure Pictures), extraordinary documentary filmmakers who have won numerous awards and whose work [...]
Over 250 Day of Caring volunteers joined World Shelters in Ventura on Saturday Sept. 26 to assemble 19 U-Domes for the residents of the River Haven community.
We will be telling the story of this event over the next few days, but we want to share these photos right away of volunteers in action. For more [...]
The HSU Lumberjack published an article on Sept. 23 about World Shelters and the upcoming Arcata Night Shelter project with the Humboldt All Faith Partnership. The article discussed the need for and logistics of the local project, which will shelter persons unsheltered on a parcel of land just north of Arcata city limits. This project [...]
