Safe at Home Volunteers Help Homeowners Live More Independently and Safely

Rebuilding Together Twin Cities believes that everyone should have a safe and healthy home. Our Safe at Home volunteers work on projects focused on improving the accessibility of the home, so that the home’s residents can live more safely and independently.  For example, Safe at Home volunteers Sam and Liz recently helped us finish a handicap-accessible first-level bathroom in a South Minneapolis home. The homeowner was wheelchair bound and had to take sponge baths because she could not access the second-floor bathroom where the shower was located.  The addition of a downstairs bathroom increased the homeowner’s independence and greatly improved her quality of life.  We are grateful to all of our Safe at Home volunteers for helping to improve the independence and safety of the people we serve!

Thanks to Cities 97!

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a $6,000 grant from Cities 97 Sampler to provide home accessibility modifications for homeowners who are older adults or are individuals living with a disability!  THANK YOU to everyone who bought the Cities 97 Sampler 28!  You helped support our efforts to ensure that those in need live more independently and safely in their homes!

The Mission Continues Partners with Rebuilding Together

We are thrilled to partner with The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit organization that empowers veterans who are adjusting to life at home to find purpose through community impact. They mobilize veteran volunteers alongside nonprofit partners and community leaders to solve some of the most challenging issues facing local communities: improving community education resources, building community gardens, mentoring at-risk youth and more. Through this service model, veterans build new skills and networks that help them successfully reintegrate into life after the military, while making long-term, sustainable transformations in communities and inspiring future generations to serve.

The Mission Continues has two Service Platoons in the Twin Cities, which are led by veterans and can include veterans of all eras and community members.  The Minneapolis Platoon has a long-term relationship with the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center in North Minneapolis, coined Operation North Advance.  Since launching of this operation in November 2016, the Minneapolis Platoon has helped the Center by building bookshelves and storage cabinets, conducting light demolition and increasing storage space, painting hallways for the attached school, painting multipurpose room and hallways in the Center’s logo colors, and hanging murals that were stuck in storage on entrance walls.

The Saint Paul Service Platoon has been conducting Service Events at the Saint Paul City Schools for the past two years.  They have helped build play equipment for the children, bookshelves, outdoor shed, and outdoor benches.  They also laid mulch and painted hallways and classrooms.

We lent our tools to The Mission Continues so they could complete this work, which helped create a better place to live, learn and work in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.  Lee Freeman, City Impact Manager at The Mission Continues said of our partnership, “All of these projects are largely due to the tool assistance provided by Rebuilding Together Twin Cities, and we are eternally grateful!”

We look forward to continuing to partner with The Mission Continues!