We Want to Thank YOU!

This week is Volunteer Appreciation Week, and we’d like to thank all of our amazing volunteers for their hard work throughout the year.  Last year, 665 volunteers donated more than 6,600 hours of time to help homeowners in need.  Thanks to your efforts, we are able to repair 24 homes through our Home Repair program, make safety and accessibility modifications to 50 homes through our Safe at Home program and renovate and repair three nonprofit facilities.  All together, we served a total of 720 people last year.  THANK YOU!

New Partnership with Builders Association of the Twin Cities Foundation

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Builders Association of the Twin Cities Foundation.  Through this partnership, Rebuilding Together Twin Cities and the Builders Association of the Twin Cities Foundation will make repairs to the homes of three North Minneapolis families.  One of the families that will receive assistance through this partnership is a homeowner named Erin, who is the primary caregiver of her two year old grandson.  Erin has not been able to keep up with repairs to her Camden neighborhood home and has received citations from the City of Minneapolis.  Volunteers from Ironwood Carpentry, a member of the Builders Association of the Twin Cities, will make repairs to ensure that Erin and her grandson can live safely in their home.

“We’re very excited to begin a new partnership with Rebuilding Together Twin Cities and know that by pooling our strengths and efforts we can accomplish more together than either of us can alone,” said Sara Anderson, Builders Association of the Twin Cities Foundation chair.  “With the help of our Builder Partner, Ironwood Carpentry, LLC, a Builders Association of the Twin Cities member, we will be tackling three projects for local families in need.”

Thanks to the Builders Association of the Twin Cities Foundation for helping us make sure that more Twin Cities homeowners can live independently in safe and warm homes!

Warehouse Madness

On March 3rd, volunteers from the Macalaster Football Team, Minnesota Conservation Corps, and EMC Insurance descended on our warehouse to help us build shelving and organize our materials and tools in preparation for National Rebuilding Day on April 28th.  Thank you to everyone who came out that day and thanks to EMC Insurance for sponsoring this project!

Spring Break Spent Helping a North Minneapolis Homeowner

For the second year in a row, we were thrilled to host students from Central Michigan University who spent their spring break helping a North Minneapolis homeowner named Ora Lee.  Ora Lee’s home, which she has lived in for nearly 50 years, was damaged by the tornado that hit North Minneapolis last spring. Volunteers from Central Michigan University spent several days scraping paint and priming walls and trim, in preparation for volunteers to do additional work at Ora Lee’s home in the coming weeks.

The Central Michigan University volunteers also spent a day going door-to-door in the West 7th neighborhood of Saint Paul to hand out information about our Safe at Home program, which provides minor home safety and accessibility modifications for homeowners in need who are older adults or individuals living with a disability.

THANK YOU to the awesome volunteers from Central Michigan University!  We look forward to spending spring break with you again next year!