Rebuilding Together Marin
Rebuilding Together Marin is part of a national non-profit community based organization dedicated to assisting low-income homeowners (particularly those who are elderly, disabled or families with disabled children) live in warmth, safety and independence through volunteer repair of owner-occupied homes and non-profit facilities serving those groups.
Description:
The number of low-income homeowners increases each year. The current 24 million low-income homeowner families is expected to grow to an astonishing 28.5 million by the year 2010.
Each year, over 260,000 volunteers in towns and cities all over America tackle the challenges of sagging roofs, leaky pipes, shaky railings, peeling paint and rotting steps that plague low-income homeowners who don't have the means to fix these problems.
For low-income, elderly and/or disabled homeowners in Marin County, properly maintaining a home can be an impossible task. Many of our neighbors are placed in the position of choosing between vital necessities, such as food or medicine, or deferred safety maintenance issues.
By using materials, supplies and equipment donated by National corporate sponsors, local civic-minded businesses, organizations and individuals, Marin County volunteers address these deferred issues, by renovating, rehabilitating and providing modifications to homes belonging to these individuals. Individual families are referred to us through neighborhood associations, churches, synagogues, community organizations and service groups or by self-referral. Non-profit facilities are also eligible for our services.
History:
For the low-income, elderly and/or disabled in Marin County, properly maintaining a home can be
an impossible task. Many of our neighbors are placed in the position of choosing between vital
necessities, such as food or medicine, or deferred safety maintenance issues. RT Marin works
to ensure that as many of those families as possible do not have to make these difficult choices.
Since 1995, over 3,500 volunteers have worked at, repaired and rehabilitated over 125 homes and
non-profit facilities throughout Marin County
Contact person: Gwendolyn Soberay, Executive Director, (phone), (email)
Main office number:
(415) 408-3492Office fax number: (415) 408-3209
Address:
Web Site: http://www.rebuildingtogethermarin.org
| Last updated on April 1, 2009 |
