St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, CUSEC, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), Southern Serenity Homes, and State Farm®, recently participated in the groundbreaking ceremony to construct a new St. Jude Dream Home®. The Dream Home® is a fundraising effort for the Hospital, with proceeds directed to research programs which increase the knowledge and treatment of childhood cancer and disease. The house will be the fifth St. Jude Dream Home® built by Southern Serenity Homes, whose efforts have helped raise more than $5 million for St. Jude.
This will be the first St. Jude Dream Home® built using IBHS’ FORTIFIED for Safer Living® building standards. These standards increase a building’s strength and overall resistance to disasters. In this Dream Home®, earthquake and high wind events will be the focus of the FORTIFIED standards. FORTIFIED disaster resistant upgrades are being provided courtesy of State Farm®. For more information about the effort, visit the IBHS webpage, which has press releases, and other information available for download.
