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Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee's Rebuilding Day will be held on Saturday, May 17th. The unskilled volunteers join with skilled trade people, painting, cleaning, and doing carpentry, plumbing and electrical work.
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Your donation could help buy:
$10 = Box of Nails
$35 = Roof Shingles
$50 = Low Flow Toilet
$75 = Window
$100 = Kitchen Sink
$150 = Front Door
$500 = Siding
$1000 = Wallboard
$2000 = Flooring
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Get Involved With Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee
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Providing comfort, warmth, and independence for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners
Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee (RTGM) is a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and revitalize homes and communities, assuring that very low-income elderly homeowners and disabled homeowners, as well as families with children, live in warmth, safety and independence. Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee is organized and operated for the purpose helping Milwaukee senior’s age with dignity and peace, in their own homes, by providing free repairs to elderly and disabled very low-income homeowners residing in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties.
If Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee could not help these homeowners, they could be forced to move, due to health and safety issues raised by the disrepair of their house and their inability to pay for the repairs. These repairs are performed at no cost to the homeowner by an army of volunteers, many of whom are affiliated with corporate sponsors and building trades industries in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties.
Examples of work performed by Rebuilding Together include the following:
- construction of ramps to assist disabled persons with access
- installation of grab bars in bathrooms
- reinforcing or adding hand rails and guard rails at stairways, porches and landings
- painting, plumbing, electrical, and roof work
- repair of worn out materials and/or equipment; and
- general fix up, clean up and painting.
The work is performed in a county-wide event called a Rebuilding Day. Rebuilding Day happens once a year, a single day on which volunteers work on a number of homes. The homes are pre-selected, and the homeowners are certified as being qualified by a Site Selection Committee. House Captains are assigned a house, and a site visit follows to determine a scope of work. Material needs for the houses are identified, and then solicited from local manufacturers and distributors. If enough volunteers are unavailable, skilled trades people complete the work needed on each house. Material needs for the houses are identified then solicited from local manufacturers and distributors. Additional materials not available from these sources are purchased with donated funds given towards each specific house by a local business. Once the materials are ordered, they are delivered to the site prior to the Rebuilding Day. On the morning of the Rebuilding Day, volunteers arrive at the houses and begin performing the tasks determined by the House Captains.
What is our impact?
As the largest volunteer home rehabilitation organization in America, our work takes place in 875 cities and towns in all 50 states. Nationally through the year 2007 almost 2.7 million volunteers have worked to rehabilitate 98,000 houses and non-profit facilities. In 2007, more than 275,000 men and women donated over 3 million hours of time to rehabilitate more than 9,000 houses and non-profit facilities.
Since 2001 Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee has:
- Remodeled 120 homes
- Served 260 people
- Had over 2,865 volunteers donate over 28,300 volunteer hours
- Contributed over $1.5 in market value
Your support helps Rebuilding Together provide comfort, warmth and independence for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners. To volunteer your time and skills or to becoming a Rebuilding Together sponsor , please complete our brief online form. Donations to help support the work of Rebuilding Together are also welcome in any amount.
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