Hello Friends,

I hope you’ve had a great February – we certainly did at RTMC! As we kick off our 33rd year of serving Montgomery County neighbors in need, RTMC continues to focus on

our mission: Repairing Homes, Revitalizing Communities, Rebuilding Lives.

I am delighted to report that we are making steady progress on our fiscal year goal to serve 180 vulnerable families in need. As always, thanks to our terrific staff team for their relentless hard work: Christina Devlin, Mat Saunders, Gabby Garcia, Beki Mitiku, Vivian Bacarreza Navarro, Shelby Badger, and Karen Kozopas.

We are also busy planning for our annual flagship event, National Rebuilding Day, which will offer three volunteer days to choose from: April 28, April 29 or April 30, 2023. We’ll have 20+ corporate and faith-based volunteer groups fan out across the county to help vulnerable families, as well as help several of our nonprofit partners with facility fresh initiatives. She Builds, a volunteer day organized by women, with women, for women is also coming up on May 19 in partnership with members of ABC Metro Washington (Associated Builders and Contractors) Women Building Washington Committee. The group will be helping to spruce up the exterior of Interfaith Work’s New Leaf Shelter.

As always, your support and partnership are greatly appreciated. Thank you for making the work of Rebuilding Together Montgomery County possible.

With gratitude,

Maury Peterson

Executive Director

Please join us in welcoming Justin Fanning to the RTMC Board of Directors! Justin is Vice President and Partner at Goldin & Stafford, an excavation and site development company, where he has worked for 11 years. He oversees the company’s estimating and business development departments. Additionally, Justin is the current Secretary and the 2025 Board Chairman of ABC Metro Washington chapter.  Justin has been committed to hard work and service, learning those lessons as a child from his family while growing up a on dairy farm in Upstate New York. Justin has experience substantively in the building industry and looks forward to continuing his commitment to service by becoming an RTMC Board member. 

National Rebuilding Day will offer three volunteer days for sponsoring groups to choose from: April 28, 29 and 30. Our goal this year is to repair and revitalize 20 homes for neighbors in need throughout Montgomery County. Companies, organizations, and faith groups in our community will come together to join our neighbors-helping-neighbors approach. Special thanks to all of our corporate and faith-based groups that have signed up to help - more than 500 volunteers are expected to attend! More information is available here.

Hats off to Lance Wolin & Helping Hands Poolesville!

Great news - Our 2023 She Builds project with Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Metro Washington will take place on Friday, May 19th. She Builds is a project By Women, For Women, With Women and the group will provide landscaping and outdoor enhancements at Interfaith Works' New Leaf Shelter, a new 30-bed emergency shelter in Rockville. If your company is a member of ABC Metro Washington and you'd like to participate, contact Beki at bmitiku@rebuildingtoghethermc.org

Volunteers at RTMC make all the difference and we are so grateful for all of their hard work throughout the year! Check out this survey we received from a homeowner served expressing thanks for our exceptional volunteers. Since we open our doors in 1990, RTMC has galvanized more than 50,000 community volunteers in our neighbor-helping-neighbor approach. For more information on upcoming volunteer opportunities, visit our website: rebuildingtogethermc.org

Celebrating Completed Repairs for Our Homeowners!

The RTMC Team gathered together this past week for another Star Ceremony. Whenever we complete critical repairs on a home, together, we review the repairs completed, tell the story of the homeowner served, and add a star sticker to the wall corresponding with the homeowner’s name. We then ring a bell in celebrate that another family is now safer in their own home. This week we posted stars and rang the bell for 20 vulnerable families recently served. Great job, team!

Homeowner Stories: Our Neighbor, Mrs. A.

Our goal this fiscal year is to serve 180 vulnerable families. Neighbors like Mrs. A., an 80-year-old homeowner who has lived in her Takoma Park condominium since 2008. Now with dementia, Mrs. A. is cared for at home by her daughter who lives with her. Mrs. A.’s daughter contacted RTMC for help with critical repairs that will allow her mother to remain safely at home. Vivian Bacarreza Navarro, RTMC AmeriCorps Home Assessment & Project Coordinator, recently visited the family to conduct an initial assessment of repairs needed, to include repairs to the floor, front door, and laundry closet doors, installation of a new stove, and installation of handrails and grab bars. Thanks to our generous donors, RTMC will be able to make these critical repairs and accessible modifications and keep another vulnerable family safer in their own home.

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