Hope started with one renovation, one trainee, and one belief: the work that fixes a home can change a life. Incorporated in 2017 and launched in 2020, that belief still runs everything we do.
Our Founder · Nora El-Khouri Spencer
Cohort 04 · 2021
Hope Renovations began with a renovation project that took longer than expected — and a realization that the women on the job site were rare, undertrained, and frequently the most committed. Founder Nora El-Khouri Spencer wondered what would happen if a nonprofit existed specifically to train women in the trades, paid them while they learned, and gave them real job sites to learn on.
The answer turned out to be straightforward. We partner with homeowners across the Triangle who need aging-in-place renovations. The work is real. The training is real. The wages are real. And the women who graduate go on to careers that pay enough to support a family.
Today we run two missions — Workforce Development and Aging in Place — out of one shop in Carrboro, NC. Every job is a classroom; every classroom is a job.
The people building both missions — out of one shop in Carrboro, NC.
