@tbuckfutter: What Dunn’s foundation does, IIRC, is help single-parent families get set up in a home: Down payment, furniture, etc. It’s up to the recipient to make the payments.

No, he’s not giving away houses to people per se, but he is putting a lot of money in up-front, and helping families in need find decent housing.

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With HFH, the home owners “down payment” is putting in 500 hours of volunteer work on their’s and other’s houses.

So it is kind of disingenuous to say he’s “donating houses” when he’s actually not. We had someone post over $100,000 for a woman with a medical condition to actually DONATE her a house. That’s a big difference.

I hate even saying anything, because what he does is so generous, and he is such a great man….I just don’t like the way it is presented because it isn’t accurate. In the situation I witnessed, he gave them furniture and a security system and I’m plenty of other good….but if that’s always the case, to give someone $10,000 worth of goods, and then reap the public perception of giving away things worth $100,000 isn’t right.

Even if he is making the down payment, and helping in other financial ways, when it is phrased that he is “donating a house” in the eye’s of the average person that means someone down on their luck is getting a house free and clear.

You can’t “donate” a car that still has a loan on it and expect the charity to pay the note.

From what I heard around Baton Rouge, he is a genuinely nice man.

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Funny how he can do so much more than Tebow ever will, while doing it under the radar and not forcing his beliefs and “values” on others at the same time, huh?

No, he’s not giving away houses to people per se, but he is putting a lot of money in up-front, and helping families in need find decent housing.

His sisters are no mean athletes, either. They helped Southern Lab to several state track and field championships. I shook his hand once at a track meet and he acted as if he was glad to meet me.

From what I heard around Baton Rouge, he is a genuinely nice man.

But just to clarify, and I’m not sure if it’s the case in THIS instance….but I work with Habitat for Humanity, and he made charitable donation for one house in our community, and offered for another one (but the timing didn’t work out)….

I don’t know how it is actually presented, or if he does things differently depending on the charity….but “all” he did in that instance was FURNISH the house. HFH built it and the homeowner did the sweat equity and pays the mortgage, and after it was finished, Warrick’s foundation donated the furniture and I believe security system and other things….which is awesome, I’m not taking that away from him in any way(which is why I put “all” in quotes above)….

But his charity had nothing to do with the actual construction or purchase of the house. Just wanted to clarify that if that particular house is included in the 115 he “donated”….he didn’t “donate” the house.

Additionally, I remember that he had folks living in HIS house during the aftermath of Katrina. Total strangers, living in his home!

And lastly, everyone knows that he’s generous with his foundation, but you also gotta know that he’s also on the ownership team of the Atlanta Falcons. That’s how you do it: Leave the team, retire and buy into the team as part-owner.

Oh, to the guy who said he’s a Buc for life, I think that’s debatable. Yes, he spent a good bit of his career in TB, but he spent a good bit in ATL too. After retirement, he purchased a small share of the Falcons and became part owner.

He is the epitome of what it means to give back.

i can think of more generous people than this guy… you and me, taxpayers. drive around some of the homes we have provided for free to ‘needy’ folks sometime.
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He’s also a taxpayer. Which means he’s contributing to federal programs like everyone else, AND doing this with more of his money.