We love our Spring Rebuilding Day Program Recipients!

THANK YOU FOR MAKING US SMILE!

BlackRock Rebuilding Day!

Today, over 40 volunteers from BlackRock's Seattle office are out at the North Seattle Boys & Girls Club (the oldest club in the state!) helping with numerous repairs including remodeling the boys, girls, and ADA bathroom, building storage shelving and moving a storage room, cleaning, creating a soundproof room for a teen recording studio, painting, yardwork, replacing appliances, and much more!  Big thank you to Project Leaders Britta Jones and Kelly Lems for leading the efforts, and also to Joan Caldon with the Boys & Girls Club for all her help in planning for the day! 

A few photos to start the day- more to come!

Thank You, BlackRock!!!

RTS Energizer: Rich Tarter, Atkinson Construction

"Rich Tarter is Atkinson Construction's nominee for the RTS Energizer Award. A 40 year veteran of heavy civil construction primarily with Atkinson, Rich arrived just after 7 AM on Saturday and worked diligently for more than 13 hours on his hands and knees installing new flooring in the kitchen. After most of the 25-30 person crew had dispersed for the day, Rich continued his work cleaning the kitchen floor and moving the refrigerator and furniture back to their pre-project locations. At 8:30 PM, Rich was still loading garbage and construction waste into the back of his pick-up to haul off-site. Rich worked hard from start to finish despite the fact that he was neither the event coordinator nor a team lead. His hard work and dedication proved crucial to our completion within the confines of one day."

Great work, Rich!

The GiveBIG results are in!

 

Thank you to everyone who supported us in this year's GiveBIG event through the Seattle Foundation! We received over $1,000 in donations on May 2nd. Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks for a follow up post to acknowledge the individuals who participated in giving BIG to Rebuilding Together Seattle!

Rebuilding Together Celebrates Home: National Rebuilding Month 2012 (Watch the new Community Starts at Home video!)

Rebuilding Together believes in a safe and healthy home for every person. Rebuilding Together provides critical repairs to an existing home, addressing both structural issues and those that affect the health of the homeowners. National Rebuilding Day is a cornerstone of Rebuilding Together's mission and brings national attention to the need for healthy and affordable housing, contributing to the sustainability of our neighborhoods. Peoples' most basic and critical needs are addressed on this national day of service.

                             

 4,000 homes and community centers are rebuilt during National Rebuilding Month

70,000 volunteers work with Rebuilding Together to rebuild homes

Engagement of skilled trades, local and national business sponsorships,

and government representatives

Watch the new video: Community Starts at Home

Thank you to all our National Rebuilding Month Sponsors and Special Guests

Chris Grundy, DIY Network's "Cool Tools"

The Carey Brothers, "On the House" radio

London Fletcher, Washington NFL Linebacker

Choice Hotels

ConocoPhillips

HGTV and DIY Network

Honeywell

Lowe's

Meredith Corporation

Sears

Sherwin-Williams

Thank you to the National and Community Leaders supporting our mission

Our advocacy effort to get elected officials to National Rebuilding Day was a big success! 11 members of Congress and at least 16 mayors attended Rebuilding Together projects across the country, contributing to a total of over 43 elected officials seeing our work to provide safe and healthy homes for every American.
 

Senator Dick Durbin

Senator John Hoeven

Senator Jeff Merkley

Senator Al Franken

Congressman Reid Ribble

Congresswoman Judy Biggert

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici
Congresswoman Judy Chu
Congressman Gary Peters

Congressman Steny Hoyer

Congresswoman Nan Hayworth

Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia
Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco
Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas

Thank you, Valley Electric!

RTS sends a big thanks to Valley Electric for their help with our office cabling project!  After welcoming a Bookkeeper, three new interns, and making plans for our new AmeriCorps member (joining this August!) the RTS office was in need of a big "IT face lift"! 

RTS sends a special thanks to Braden Rowbottom and Larry Hanke of Valley Electric for their special efforts in supporting the project.  We simply could not have done it without your support!

To learn more about Valley Electric, please visit www.velectric.com.

REBUILDING TOGETHER AND LOWE'S BUILD A HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOOD FOR PHILADELPHIA

PRESS RELEASE 5/15/2012 For Immediate Release Contact: Becky Carter Rebuilding Together bcarter@rebuildingtogether.org

REBUILDING TOGETHER AND LOWE'S BUILD A HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOOD FOR PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON DC - MAY 15 2012 - Rebuilding Together, in partnership with the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation and  Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, announced plans today for Rebuilding Together's Building a Healthy Neighborhood project in the Overbrook neighborhood in Philadelphia.  Rebuilding Together's Building a Healthy Neighborhood project will recruit hundreds of volunteers, local leaders and officials to rehabilitate nearly 30 homes in the Overbrook neighborhood June 14 - 16. The work will address local families' critical needs, including major interior and exterior rehabilitations, accessibility modifications and energy efficient upgrades. The volunteers will also participate in community clean-up and the installation of a new playground at the Overbook Environmental Education Center in partnership with Carter Oosterhouse's charity Carter's Kids.  The Building a Healthy Neighborhood mission is to demonstrate the positive effects of home and neighborhood revitalization on the overall health of homeowners, families and communities.   "Rebuilding Together's core belief that everyone deserves a safe and healthy home is brought to actualization through incredible rebuilding initiatives like Building a Healthy Neighborhood, and the sponsors and volunteers who support our work," said Gary A. Officer, president and CEO of Rebuilding Together. "The work we do is absolutely essential to the continued sustainability of America's communities, and we are proud to work in Philadelphia to ensure that its neighborhoods remain healthy and viable."  "Creating safe and healthy living environments in the homes impacted by the Building a Healthy Neighborhood project helps bring vitality to families, neighborhoods and communities," said Marshall Croom, chairman of Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation.  "Our Lowe's Heroes network of employee volunteers will be hard at work with community volunteers in Philadelphia to help make a difference for the families of Overbrook."  Volunteers from Lowe's, Wells Fargo, Citrin Cooperman, Rebuilding Together's CapacityCorps alumni, and HGTV and DIY Network, will revitalize the Overbrook neighborhood and community center, as part of Rebuilding Together's mission to provide a safe and healthy home for every person. ABOUT REBUILDING TOGETHER Rebuilding Together believes in a safe and healthy home for every person. Rebuilding Together provides critical repairs to an existing home, addressing both structural issues and those that affect the health of the homeowners. House by house, block by block, we work with our nearly 200 affiliates, 200,000 volunteers, who are skilled tradespersons, corporate partners and everyday citizens, to repair homes, to stabilize and revitalize communities. For nearly 25 years, we have seen the benefits when people remain in their homes: lives are improved and communities are revived. See the difference we make at www.RebuildingTogether.org. You can also follow Rebuilding Together on Twitter @rebldgtogthr or become a fan on Facebook at Facebook.com/RebuildingTogether. Media Contact: Becky Carter BCarter@rebuildingtogether.org ABOUT LOWE'S Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs that focus on K-12 public education and community improvement projects. The company's signature education grant program, Lowe's Toolbox for Education®, has donated nearly $5 million in grants to K-12 public schools every year since its inception in 2006. Lowe's Heroes employee volunteers support local community projects and our national nonprofit partners such as Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross. In 2011, Lowe's and the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation together contributed more than $32 million to support communities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. To learn more, visit Lowes.com/SocialResponsibility.  ###