Putting Your Money Where Your Heart Is

Inspired and supported by our advertisers and readers like you, the parent of Roofing Contractor sponsored one of the more than 200 homes built in Michigan during Habitat for Humanity's 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP) this summer.

This involvement in the construction industry made for a great opportunity for many of BNP Media's journalists to gain some hands-on experience as volunteer construction workers. It is one thing to talk about roofing and write about roofing, and quite something else to throw a bundle of shingles on your shoulder, haul it across the roof, tear it open and start nailing. For example, Roofing Contractor publisher Jill Nash may now justifiably add framing carpenter, roofer and painter to her résumé.