Rebuilding Together

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September 14th, 2024

8:30 am -5 pm

Have you ever thought what it would be like to not be able to care for your home? Or if your home had some safety, health or accessibility issues? Or if your home was simply unattractive or unsightly? Greenfield will once again be helping with the Rebuilding Together Southeast Michigan project. As you know, RTSEM is committed to helping those that are having some challenges with maintenance and upkeep for their houses.

 The objective is to enable people to have a safe and healthy home and to help upgrade the neighborhoods. This is a great opportunity to help our neighbors with some fixing-up, sprucing-up and improving the accessibility & safety in their home.

For more information look at: https://www.rebuildingtogethersem.org/

Remember, everyone is welcome to participate - children (over 12) and spouses! You do not need any skills!! All levels of skill are welcome… Questions - please send Ray Swetman a note or call 248-860- 3523.

Thanks, GPC Mission Committee  

The GPC Project Home is under evaluation – will send information shortly

  • We WILL BE DOING INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR work

  • Project workday will be from 8:30 to 5:00PM (approx.)

  • Please come! Even if is for an hour or two – all help is appreciated…

  • We will meet AT THE PROJECT HOME at 8:30 to begin our rebuilding projects

  • Work includes exterior minor interior work plus cleanup and landscape

  • Lunch, entertainment and snacks provided!

  • FREE TEE SHIRT!!!

At Rebuilding Together, we make essential repairs to help our neighbors stay in their homes.

About Rebuilding

Our work often goes beyond each home. Local affiliates who are rooted in the community work closely with community residents and leaders to revitalize our communities. Together, we create and execute plans to address some of the needs of each specific community.

Through our work, we are also positioned to also address the long-term recovery of communities struck by natural disasters.We commit to our neighbors in need and help them rebuild in the months and years following a disaster.

Safe & Healthy Housing

Safe and Healthy Housing is the foundation of Rebuilding Together’s home repair work, targeting significant safety and health hazards based on the Eight Principles of Healthy Homes— keep it dry, clean, pest-free, safe, contaminant-free, well-ventilated, maintained and thermally controlled. Through critical home repairs and home modifications in underserved communities, we address the connection between health and housing, while preserving the existing affordable housing landscape across the US.

Community Revitalization

Community Revitalization Partnership drives Rebuilding Together programming by targeting our service delivery in specific neighborhoods, engaging neighbors as partners and aligning our work more closely with other nonprofit service providers to improve the health and safety conditions of entire neighborhoods, not just individual homes. Through a systematic, coordinated approach with community members and local organizations, Rebuilding Together revitalizes and sustains safe, healthy and thriving communities.

History

In 1973, a small group of people in Midland, Texas, realized a growing need in their community. Homes in their community had fallen into disrepair and their neighbors could not afford to fix them on their own. The group volunteered their time and skills to rehabilitate the homes of their neighbors. Realizing the potential impact of this work, the group formed Christmas in April, with the intent of performing repair and rehabilitation work in their community every April.

 

News of the group’s good work spread slowly, but eventually achieved national recognition. The mission spread beyond the idea of providing service once a year in April to bringing together partners from all walks of life to help our neighbors year-round. We opened the national office in 1988 and became Rebuilding Together.

Today, Rebuilding Together has grown into a premier nonprofit community revitalization organization.

Together, with our corporate and community partners, we repair homes, revitalize communities and rebuild lives. Rebuilding Together’s local affiliates and nearly 100,000 volunteers complete about 10,000 rebuild projects nationwide each year.