A Charity's Do-It-Yourself Funding

A Charity's Do-It-Yourself Funding: "A Charity's Do-It-Yourself Funding
# Habitat for Humanity, which builds homes for the poor, helps support itself by selling tools and building supplies at a new Corona store.

By Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer

Flor Diaz wasn't expecting much from Corona's newest home improvement store. The Moreno Valley woman knew it had been opened by a nonprofit organization to subsidize home-building efforts for the poor, and she figured that at best she'd find secondhand items salvaged from the scrap heap.

What she found instead was aisle after aisle of mint-condition merchandise, kitchen fixtures, gardening supplies and other unused items donated to Habitat for Humanity and offered at deep discounts."