Rebuilding Together, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There are 20.7 million low-income homeowners living in the U.S. today. Many struggle with the health and economic implications of living in unsafe, unstable homes. In response to this critical issue facing families and communities, Rebuilding Together is committed to improving the safety, health and quality of life of individuals, families and communities through critical home repairs and community revitalization services. Housing quality and location are widely recognized as a major factor in both individual and community health. Yet, low-income individuals and families often struggle to find and maintain safe and affordable housing in both gentrifying and higher poverty neighborhoods. As a leader in safe and healthy housing, Rebuilding Together is committed to finding solutions to common health hazards and providing home repairs and modifications to low income families and individuals. Rebuilding Together is also deeply committed to its Community Revitalization framework.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Safe at Home
Most of the existing housing stock in the United States is not designed to accommodate the physical and cognitive changes that come with age. Safe at Home provides home modifications for older adults and people with disabilities to improve accessibility, reduce falls, increase independence and facilitate aging-in place. Safe at Home is designed to improve aging-in-place outcomes for low-income older adults through the modification of their home environment to meet their specific needs.
Veterans at Home
Too many Americans who once wore our nations uniform, and sacrificed for our country, now live in substandard housing and are at severe risk of homelessness. The need for sustainable, safe and healthy housing for veterans is dire. Veterans at Home provides home modifications and repairs to veterans and their families to improve safety and accessibility, increase independence and facilitate aging-in place.
Disaster Readiness and Recovery
With natural and man-made disasters on the rise, Rebuilding Together helps neighbors in time of crisis to rebuild their homes and lives. Rebuilding Togethers Disaster Readiness and Recovery program offers disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and long-term recovery support to help families and communities affected by natural disasters to rebuild their homes and lives.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our volunteers work help provide home repairs and relief in the wake of natural disasters in our 120 locations across the country.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These numbers reflect both the number of individuals we served through home repairs, as well as through repairs to community facilities and spaces.
Number of homes that receive repairs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This total includes all home and community rehabilitation projects (nonprofit facilities, community spaces).
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Collectively, Rebuilding Together aims to achieve the following outcomes: improved access to safe and affordable housing in underserved communities by increasing the number of low-income homeowners around the United States with a safe and healthy home, including veterans and military families; improved health and housing outcomes for homeowners and families who receive direct home repair services from Rebuilding Together; improved quality of life for our neighbors in need in the communities where we work; improve resiliency and preparedness in communities prone to natural disasters; and increase capacity of communities impacted by natural disasters to rapidly rebuild and recover.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Rebuilding Together is repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives through Community Revitalization and a deep commitment to Safe and Healthy Housing.
Through Community Revitalization, Rebuilding Together is activating cross-sector partnerships to improve the health and safety of homes and strengthen community infrastructure through the revitalization of parks, schools, community centers and nonprofit facilities.
Our Safe and Healthy Housing framework is a science-based, systematic approach to rebuilding homes encompasses hundreds of repairs that remedy critical home hazards. In addition to our core work- Community Revitalization and Safe and Healthy Housing- we have several national programs including:
Safe at Home: Preventive home modification program to promote safe and healthy aging-in-place with a focus on reducing falls and promoting independence, safety and mobility at home for older adults.
Building a Healthy Neighborhood: Our long-term commitment to develop thriving neighborhoods with safe, affordable, and accessible homes and public spaces. Affiliates make a minimum one year commitment to a particular neighborhood or community and collaborate with public and private partners to repair homes and revitalize communities
She Builds: Through She Builds, Rebuilding Together provides home and community improvements to women in need while giving community members and volunteers training to improve their own lives and communities.
Disaster Recovery: When natural disasters strike, Rebuilding Together provides strategic long-term support to help families and communities rebuild and return to safe and healthy homes and vibrant communities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Rebuilding Together affiliates operate across 38 states as well as the District of Columbia. The national organization supports key initiatives and programs which allow the network to accomplish its goals. The Rebuilding Together Organizational Development Institute (ODI) is critical to our ability to effectively scale solutions across our network. Through ODI, we develop, pilot, refine, and launch national programs and initiatives while also providing direct capacity building support to affiliates of all sizes with the goal of improving their local operations and increasing their impact in local communities. Through Safe and Healthy Housing, Rebuilding Together seeks to advance health equity by improving health and housing outcomes for our neighbors in need in economically distressed communities. . Through Safe at Home, Rebuilding Together provides free preventive home modifications to promote aging-in-place while preserving housing affordability. As an active member of the National Association of Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), we work in partnership with local and national disaster response and recovery organizations and members of the affected community to rebuild and restore homes. The Rebuilding Together Success Pack (RTSP) is a collaborative endeavor between the Rebuilding Together National Office and its affiliates to design and create a database platform on the world’s leading CRM, Salesforce. RTSP brings together the disparate, proprietary technologies that Rebuilding Together uses separately into one platform built specifically to meet the organizational needs of the Rebuilding Together affiliate network. Since 2007, Rebuilding Together has hosted an AmeriCorps program that provides AmeriCorps member. Not only does this program strengthen the organizational capacity of our affiliates across the country but also helps grow a workforce committed to safe and healthy housing and communities.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 1988, Rebuilding Together has leveraged 4 million volunteers and $1.86 billion in cash and in-kind resources to repair and rehabilitate over 200,000 homes, nonprofit facilities, and community spaces, improving the lives of an estimated 6 million low- and moderate-income neighbors in need. Rebuilding Together is changing lives: one home, one community at a time.
According to a 2017 evaluation of Rebuilding Together’s critical home repair services for older adults: around two-thirds of homeowners who received repairs report that they now always feel safe at home and can move around without difficulty. Homeowners waiting for our repairs were nearly twice as likely to fall 3+ times in the course of a year, compared to the older homeowners who received repairs. . Additionally, across a sample of 210 Rebuilding Together home rebuild projects completed in 2016 and 2017, a $10,000-$15,000 investment per home yielded a reduction of in-home hazards by 84%. Post repair, 9 in 10 homeowners anticipate they can continue to afford their homes over the next decade and beyond. In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Rebuilding Together rebuilt over 1,000 homes along the Gulf Coast between 2005-2015. Between 2012-2015, Rebuilding Together rebuilt more than 400 homes in New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. To date, Rebuilding Together has rebuilt more than 200 homes impacted by Hurricane Harvey and has a goal to rebuild 1,500 homes by 2023. Since 2007, Rebuilding Together has trained more than 450 CapacityCorps members, who have served over 1 million hours with Rebuilding Together affiliates via AmeriCorps. A vital source of capacity and talent for the Rebuilding Together network, around 1 in 10 Rebuilding Together paid staff are AmeriCorps alumni.
2019 marks the kickoff of our Building a Healthy Neighborhood Innovation grants, in which we provide affiliates with capacity building funding to be used toward the development of their own wholistic program, targeted at supporting local communities. It also marks the roll out of our impact measurements pilot, in which we lay the framework for each affiliate to be able to subjectively evaluate their outcomes and therefore assess the effectiveness of their programs. We also intend on expanding our workforce development program, so that more affiliates may launch programs like the one that trained more than 200 skilled laborers throughout New York City in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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Rebuilding Together, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 04/24/2024
Guy Cecala
Inside Mortgage Finance
Term: 2018 - 2022
Guy Cecala
Inside Mortgage Finance
Joy Cianci
Fannie Mae
Jim Kelly
Blank Rome LLP
Ed Peavy
Mission Control
Kathleen Wu
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Karen Nemsick
Rebuilding Together San Francisco
John Scott Johnson
Urban Standard Capital
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.