For Black, it’s a chance to watch all her efforts come together.
CHARLOTTE -- A Charlotte teenager is spending her summer building a home for a family in need. In just months, Izzy Black was able to raise more than $60,000 to buy supplies to build the home.
She’s now partners with Hugh McColl, former CEO of Bank of America. Together, the two are helping make the Habitat home in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of west Charlotte closer to completion.
"Just to be able to give people to have a close family like that, I jumped on [the opportunity]," said Black, who picked McColl’s brain for how to raise the money for the house. “I wrote a letter and sent it to a lot of people. And a lot of people are just huge fans of Habitat, so they were very supportive,” she added.
“To be completely candid, I was shocked at how fast she was able to raise $65,000," said McColl.
A Charlotte teenager is spending her summer building a home for a family in need. In just months, Izzy Black was able to raise more than $60,000 to buy supplies to build the home.
Side by side, the high school senior and the 73-year-old retiree worked to help one family with their own American dream.
"It's what the American dream is all about, so I enjoy doing it,” said McColl. “You get to see your work actually do something as opposed to running a bank where you get up every day and it's the same old, same old."
For Black, it’s a chance to watch all her efforts come together. “It's so awesome, because at the beginning of the project, I was like ‘this is so boring writing thank you letters,’” she said. “But seeing the house built up like this is awesome, and it's such a great feeling.”
Since his retirement, McColl remained a loyal advocate for Habitat for Humanity, pledging to build more than 200 homes across the country and overseas.