Alabama Power Foundation Strategic Initiatives Empower Nonprofits, Businesses to Improve Communities

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By Alabama Power Foundation

In the dead of night, while much of the world sleeps, tractor-trailers haul houses down highways and byways in and around Birmingham.

These aren’t new mobile homes, but older, immobile homes recently unmoored from their foundations and headed to a new destination: Ensley.

The homes are part of nonprofit organization Build UP’s effort to teach students skills, transform a blighted neighborhood in its own backyard and create a new middle class in the once-thriving town. Build UP prepares Ensley-area students for careers in construction and skilled trades.

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