Our Mission:
Repairing Homes, Revitalizing Communities, Rebuilding Lives
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A Note From Our Executive Director, Maury Peterson |
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Hello Friends,
I want to express my immense gratitude and say THANK YOU to our RTMC community who together make our work possible. Thanks to our homeowners, Board members, staff team, donors, volunteers, and community partners for your partnership to bring our mission to life: Repairing Homes, Revitalizing Communities, Rebuilding Lives. The critical home repairs and accessibility modifications we provide to our neighbors in need are vital and allow them to remain safely in their homes.
One important way we help our homeowners is through our annual flagship event, National Rebuilding Day, which will take place on April 30/May 1, 2022! We are actively recruiting corporate and faith-based volunteer groups to join us as we fan out across the county to help 20 vulnerable families who are in need of critical home repairs. You can read more about the event and how you can get involved below. Deadline to sign up is January 31, 2022.
Don’t forget that Giving Tuesday is Tuesday, November 30th. Thanks to a generous donor, all donations made will be DOUBLED! More information and a link to donate is below.
As always, your partnership is much appreciated! Thank you for supporting our mission and making the work of Rebuilding Together Montgomery County possible.
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Maury Peterson
Executive Director
P.S. If you’re a past volunteer, board member, homeowner or friend of Rebuilding Together Montgomery County, let's connect! Send me an email or add me on LinkedIn.
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Celebrating Completed Critical Home Repairs |
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RTMC’s goal is to provide critical home repairs to 150 families by June 30, 2022. Our team places a heart on our office wall with the name of each homeowner we serve. When a homeowner’s repairs are complete, the team has a Star Ceremony to review the project, celebrate another homeowner served, and place a gold star on the heart to indicate a finished project. Pictured above are Mat Saunders, Home Assessment & Project Coordinator, and Lindsay Luhn, Senior Manager of Program Services, placing more gold stars. Great job, team!
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Wells Fargo Build Grant Changes the Lives of Two Sandy Spring Neighbors in Need |
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RTMC is proud to partner with Wells Fargo to serve our homeowners. Like us, Wells Fargo envisions safe homes and communities for everyone. Since 2010, Wells Fargo has partner with Rebuilding Together and its affiliate network to support rebuilding efforts across the country, including providing essential home repairs, revitalizing communities, and helping veterans, seniors, people with disabilities, families with children and victims of disaster remain in their homes.
Thanks to a Wells Fargo Build Grant, RTMC was able to help two senior homeowners in need. Ms. W. and Ms. L. are neighbors living in Sandy Spring. Their shared driveway was unsafe to drive on and in desperate need of repair. We called our friends at Chevy Chase Contractors, Inc. who were able to remove the broken concrete, pour a new driveway and repair the drainage issue to ensure future water flow will no longer damage the driveway. Our homeowners are thrilled with the results and can now safely enter and leave their home with ease. Thank you, Wells Fargo, for making this life-changing repair possible!
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Helping a Homeowner with Flooding |
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RTMC Homeowner Ms. G. called us when her toilet clogged and water began running down her stairs and pooling several inches in her basement, making her bathroom unusable. Thanks to our friends at Mallick Plumbing and Heating, they were able to repair the toilet and stop the flooding. Ms. G. sent us a lovely note saying, “Thank you so much for helping me, I feel relieved because I received the help I needed.”
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National Rebuilding Day is April 30/May 1, 2022! |
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Deadline for Team Sign-Up is January 31, 2022
Calling all corporate and faith-based volunteer groups! Join us for National Rebuilding Day on April 30/May 1, 2022 to provide critical home repairs to 20 vulnerable homeowners and their families. Click the link for more information or contact Joni Keaton at jkeaton@rebuildingtogethermc.org.
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DOUBLE Your Donation on Giving Tuesday! |
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Thanks to a generous donor, all donations made to RTMC on Giving Tuesday, November 30th will be DOUBLED up to a total of $5,000! Every donation matters and you can have a tremendous impact on our neighbors in need.
$50 provides grab bars to help a child with disabilities to safely access the bathroom
$100 installs brighter hallway lighting to help an aging homeowner better navigate her home
$300 provides a new front door to keep a struggling single mom and her kids safe
$500 replaces a broken stove to ensure an isolated senior can cook a hot meal
$1000 provides exterior handrails to allow a homeowner with disabilities to exit his home safely
$2,500 converts a tub to a shower to allow a homeowner in a wheelchair to bathe more safely
$5,000 replaces a broken HVAC system and keep a widow warm this winter
$10,000 replaces a leaking roof for a veteran
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Help Us Recruit a AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator! |
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Our recruiting deadline is this week! Help RTMC recruit an AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator to start in January 2022. Apply HERE.
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Help Spread the Word about Our Services to Our Neighbors in Need |
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If you know of a friend or neighbor in need of critical home repairs from RTMC, we're here to help. Our application forms are available HERE in English and Spanish.
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Recognizing Susan Hawfield for 22 Years of Service to Rebuilding Together & Happy Retirement! |
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After 22 years of service to Rebuilding Together both at the national office and previously at our RTMC affiliate, Susan Hawfield will retire at the end of this year. Susan served with distinction for many years as RTMC’s Executive Director and helped to grow our presence in the community. Most recently, Susan has serves as an Executive Vice President at the national office. As the Rebuilding Together Training Institute recently held in Philadelphia, Susan was awarded the Patty R. Johnson Community Builder Award, named for Rebuilding Together’s founding President and CEO. The award is given to an individual who best exemplifies dedicated leadership in service to communities in need.
We are grateful to Susan for all of her support of RTMC over the years and we wish her well in retirement. Of course, once a Rebuilder, always a Rebuilder so we hope to have Susan back as a RTMC volunteer in the future!
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About Us
Rebuilding Together Montgomery County (RTMC) provides critical home repairs, accessibility modifications and links to community resources for our most vulnerable neighbors, including seniors, veterans and people with disabilities. Since 1990, RTMC has served more than 2,500 homeowners and engaged 50,000 volunteers to help our neighbors stay in their homes.
18225-A Flower Hill Way, Gaithersburg, MD 20879
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