Every year One Project Closer hosts the coolest Before & After contest benefiting Habitat for Humanity. They are on their 5th year now!
One Project Closer and their sister site The Better Half want this year to be the best one yet so they reached out to several bloggers and asked us to get in on the fun.
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit who helps and supports local communities as well as communities all over all over the world. OPC’s annual Before & After series helps raise awareness for Habitat, and support their mission to provide decent, safe and affordable places to live.
Fred from OPC volunteering with Habitat Sandtown
How it Works
If you’re not familiar with the series, here’s the basics: you submit pictures and a story from a home improvement project you worked (no contracted jobs) sometime over the past year.
Every week of the summer (June 20 – September 21) a winner is selected and their story is published online. Each winner gets a
$50 gift card to either your local hardware store or Amazon
and OPC makes a
very generous donation of $100 to Habitat for Humanity
in their honor!
At the end of the Summer YOU {the readers} will vote for the best submission overall. The winner receives a bonus $150 gift card to either your local hardware store or Amazon.
This year is different and even more AWESOME because OPC has invited 13 other bloggers to get involved, each hosting a week, picking that week’s winner, and featuring the Before and After project on their site.
Here are the bloggers involved as well as the the schedule so far:
Week of: | Host: |
---|---|
June 17 | OPC’s The Better Half |
June 24 | Pretty Handy Girl |
July 1 | Beneath My Heart |
July 8 | ten june |
July 15 | Southern Hospitality |
July 22 | Charles and Hudson |
July 29 | House of Hepworths |
August 5 | the space between |
August 12 | Remodelaholic |
August 19 | DIY Showoff |
August 26 | My Blessed Life |
September 2 | Home Stories A-2-Z |
September 9 | Bear Rabbit Bear |
September 16 | Burlap & Denim |
Ethan from OPC volunteering with Habitat Sandtown
How to Enter
Click through and submit your project to One Project Closer’s Link Party here. You may also submit your project via email. Details can be found here.
House of Hepworths be hosting the Before & After series the week of July 29th where I’ll be posting that weeks winner! This series will be a lot of fun and is also benefiting Habitat for Humanity, so I encourage you to link up your projects and follow along with each blogger!
John B. Barnard says
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