Rebuilding Together - St. Louis

Rock the Forest June 16th

Rebuilding Together - StL — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:47:32 +0000

Gearing up for a rockin’ good time at unique venue, Rebuilding Together St. Louis is hosting the first-ever Rock the Forest fund raiser on Saturday, June 16 at Sherwood’s Forest Nursery and Garden Center, 2651 Barrett Station Road in the Des Peres area. Rebuilding Together-St. Louis repairs the homes of low income and needy homeowners so they may remain safely in their own homes.

A fund raiser like no other, Rock the Forest will feature a three-hour performance by Jake’s Leg, a legendary Grateful Dead cover band, from 6:30 to 9:30pm. To say the group copies the Dead, though, would be a mistake. The group interprets the material with their own identity musically and emotionally. There is a distinct joy that takes place at each performance which transcends the typical musical experience.

While getting their groove on amidst 10,000 square feet of flowers, trees, topiaries and greenery, party guests will enjoy a huge assortment of savories and samplings from some of the area’s most popular restaurants including fare from world-famous Pappy’s Barbecue; a grilling station staffed by the St. Gerard Men’s Club and much more. A variety of beverages will also be available.

Rounding out the festivities will be silent and live auctions with an impressive array of offerings. Up for bid will be a private airplane flight over the area, including a fly-over of the winner’s home; the chance to perform on-the-spot with Jake’s Leg; studio visits and lunch with some of the areas most popular media personalities; tickets to the Muny and Cardinals games; and much more.

Ticket Levels
$75 General Admission
$1000 Admission for 10, to include reserved seating
$1250 Admission for 10, to include reserved seating, 3 bottles of wine, 3 iced 6 packs of Kraftig Light and assorted snack at your tables.
$1500 Admission for 10, to include reserved seating and personal table service.

For more information and tickets please email Cheryl or Leslie. Join us on Facebook.

Sangria Showdown

kfeit — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:45:59 +0000

Can you beat Onesto’s sangria making champ?

Join Rebuilding Together on Monday, April 16th for a sangria making and tasting contest.

$50 to enter the contest (wine included) $30 to taste!

For tickets call Ontesto’s at 314-802-8883.

Spring Volunteer Opportunities

kfeit — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:15:42 +0000

Saturday, March 24^th(8am – 5pm) – Attend a free training and become a Certified Lead Renovator with the City of St. Louis and Rebuilding Together. On Rebuilding Day (May 5^th) Certified Lead Renovators are assigned to several homes. They go to each home and make sure volunteers are staying lead safe and not disturbing lead paint

Tuesday, April 3^rd – We need a hand to transfer supplies from our warehouse into storage trailers. This should only take a half day.

Saturday, April 14^the(12pm – 5pm) – We will need 10-15 volunteers to put together House Ambassador and Volunteer Coordinator binders. We will also be sorting supplies and getting painting supplies ready for Rebuilding Day.

May 5^thRebuilding Day Volunteers (8am – 5pm) – We are still looking for skilled and unskilled volunteers to act as ‘free agents’ on houses. Carpenters, plumbers, drywall installers etc. are needed! Rebuilding Day volunteers will show up at a house ready to do whatever work the House Captain needs.

May 5^thRebuilding Day Photographers (8am – 5pm) – We are looking for both professional and aspiring photographers to visit various houses and take pictures on Rebuilding Day. The pictures will be returned to Rebuilding Together St. Louis to be used for our website, publications and other media.

Office Volunteer (Year Round) – We are looking for part time office volunteers to come in and help with administrative work. Our office is open 9-5pm, Monday – Friday. Come in once a week and help to answer phone calls, enter applications and help low income homeowners apply to our program.

Occupational Therapists (March 7^th – April 13^th) – Rebuilding Together has a group of professional occupational therapists that assess the homes of disabled older adults. They determine what home modifications can be put in place to make their homes safer.

Volunteers transform North City church to training center -KSDK

kfeit — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:52:51 +0000

St. Louis (KSDK) – Hundreds of volunteers worked with Rebuild Together-St. Louis to transform a north St. Louis building into a training center for military veterans.

The former dormitory was donated by North City Church of Christ and will be run by the Renewable Energy Training Institute, which provides veterans with skills to prepare for civilian life.

Once it is complete, the facility will include a new wheelchair ramp, fencing and new carpet. It will also have a patio and garden in the back.

Former Marine veteran Charlie Boyd was thrilled with how many volunteers came to help.

“It’s more than we anticipated for the volunteers to do what they are doing,” said Boyd. ”It’s just overwhelming and mindboggling as we say in the Marine Corps.”

The effort is part of the Home Depot Foundation’s two month Celebration of Service Campaign which honors military veterans. It started September 11 and runs through Veterans Day.

Rebuilding Day 2012

kfeit — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:27:41 +0000

On May 5th, 2012 Rebuilding Together St. Louis will be mobilizing hundreds of volunteers, both skilled and unskilled, to complete much needed home repairs for older adults and disabled individuals in the St. Louis area. Interested in being part of this rebuilding movement? Click Here to Volunteer!

Rhine Haus Happy Hour

Rebuilding Together - StL — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:21:26 +0000

Please join us on Wednesday, November 9 at the newest German eatery and pub in town for free appetizers-including pretzel bread and German sausages- from 5:30 till 7:30, and drink specials all evening. There will be opportunities to enter drawing for different prizes like Blues Tickets and Firefly Vodka Baskets.

Entry Fee is $10 in advance or $15 the night of the event. All proceeds go to Rebuilding Together St. Louis.

This should be an incredible evening at a great new pub in the Central West End. Feel free to call or email me us 314-918-9918 ext 31 or lmusler@rebuildingtogether-stl.org OR donate here designating the names of your guest.

As always, thank you for your support

For more information go here.

Cricket and Rebuilding Together Rehab Good Shepherd Home for Expectant Teens

Rebuilding Together - StL — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:00:19 +0000

Stltoday.com…. October 2, 2011

BY JuliaCross | Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2011 09:06 AM

On Sunday, October 2^nd, a team of more than 60 volunteers from Cricket Wireless, Rebuilding Together St. Louis, and the Good Shepherd Children and Family Services will take up hammers, nails and paint brushes to give a face lift to Good Shepherd’s home for expectant teens, a $35,000 project funded by a generous donation from Cricket Wireless. This project is just part of Cricket’s $210,000, Platinum Projects which Cricket and Rebuilding Together are working on this fall.

“Cricket’s Platinum Projects deliver high impact change for homeowners, families and communities who are struggling to remain safe and viable,” said Gary A. Officer, president and CEO of Rebuilding Together. “Cricket’s projects span across the country, truly transforming the framework of the cities and towns in which we work.”

Good Shepherd Children and Family Services is a part of Catholic Charities and a nonprofit facility that takes care of various children and family needs, including providing a home for pregnant teens who are dealing with broken families, problems in school and their community, and have nowhere else to turn.

“We couldn’t be more grateful to Cricket and Rebuilding Together St. Louis for graciously providing us this much needed renovation,” said Good Shepherd Interim Executive Director Jennifer Prior. “Our residents come from broken and unstable homes, and providing them with a more comfortable environment will help give them a much-needed sense of stability and security that they’ve lacked for most of their lives.”

The build includes an all-new kitchen, re-freshened bedrooms, and an updated recreation room. Volunteers will update the kitchen with new appliances, countertops, and cabinets, plumbing repairs, interior painting, and flooring. The six resident bedrooms will be painted and re-decorated with new bedding, blinds, and rugs. Cricket will also add the Muve Music Room – turning a basement rec room into a fresh new hangout for the teen residents, with comfortable new furniture, a new flat-screen TV, new games for the Wii, and a stereo system and phone with Muve Music service provided by Cricket Wireless without cost for one year. Muve Music is the first complete music experience created for a phone, an exclusive service where subscribers can choose from millions of songs, get unlimited music downloads directly to their phone, as well as talk, text and surf the web.

“We at Cricket are eager to get to work on revitalizing the facilities for this incredible charitable foundation that has helped improve the lives of many at-risk youth in the St. Louis area,” said Chenell Seaton Hall, St. Louis Marketing Manager for Cricket Wireless. “Cricket is proud to be a top sponsor of Rebuilding Together’s efforts to support organizations that have such a large impact on the community.”

Cricket Wireless’ Platinum Projects focus on serving low-income homeowners and communities, addressing their critical needs, and rebuilding the health and infrastructure of homes and community centers through extensive rehabilitation and revitalization work.

“Rebuilding Together’s goal is to bring volunteers and communities together to improve the lives of those in need,” explained Rebuilding Together’s St. Louis Executive Director Dave Ervin. “By revitalizing the residential facilities of Good Shepherd Children and Family Services, we are giving at-risk youth in the community a comfortable and safe place to call home.”

Cricket will donate an additional $240,000 for 15 more projects taking place through the end of 2011. Cricket Wireless has been a Rebuilding Together President’s Circle Sponsor since 2009 and contributed a total $2.5 million towards the mission of helping homeowners in need. Throughout the course of their partnership, Cricket Wireless has delivered 85 grant awards to more than 40 Rebuilding Together affiliates, and has awarded 17 Platinum Projects. In 2010, Cricket and Rebuilding Together created a new home for the Demetrius Johnson Foundation, an organization that inspires inner city youth to better their lives through mentoring, financial, vocational and scholastic assistance program. For 18 years, the Demetrius Johnson Foundation did this work without a building of its own. A $50,000 Rebuilding Together project sponsored by Cricket turned an old St. Louis city community center into a new home for the Foundation, restoring the basketball court and weight room, creating a youth lounge, painting and creating landscaping.

Cricket and Rebuilding Together Rehab Good Shepherd Home for Expectant Teens

RT STL Administrator — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:46:59 +0000

On Sunday, October 2nd, a team of more than 60 volunteers from Cricket Wireless, Rebuilding Together St. Louis, and the Good Shepherd Children and Family Services will take up hammers, nails and paint brushes to give a face lift to … Continue reading →

Hundreds Of Volunteers Help Rebuild North St. Louis

RT STL Administrator — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:12:18 +0000

Taking a neighborhood back from criminals by cleaning it up. St. Louis’s 21st ward, on the city’s northside is proof the concept works.

Hundreds Of Volunteers Help Rebuild North St. Louis

Rebuilding Together - StL — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:12:16 +0000

The Goal Is To Rebuild One Block At A Time

By Teresa Woodard ReporterJuly 16, 2011

Taking a neighborhood back from criminals by cleaning it up. St. Louis’s 21st ward, on the city’s northside is proof the concept works. Sunday hundreds of volunteers show residents someone cares.

A basement is being cleaned, a kitchen is being painted, handrails are being installed, loose bricks are being repaired, and new floor tiles are going in. And it’s all happening on three blocks of Red Bud Avenue; not usually a hotbed for rehabbers.

“It’s a blessing for me because I couldn’t afford it. I couldn’t afford it and they’re doing lot of things I needed done,” said homeowner Janice M. Taylor.

About 400 volunteers from Boeing and another 100 or so from the agency Rebuilding Together St. Louis worked together on a vision dreamed up by St. Louis alderman Antonio French. He is targeting specific blocks in his ward, rehabbing homes for people who can’t do it themselves. He’s learned when a neighborhood looks better, people act better.”This block for instance has had a lot of gang trouble in recent years, so, while investing in that block, and rebuilding the houses, and really getting the homeowners involved and communicating over the month leading up to rebuilding day, it’s reclaiming that block,” said French.Dave Ervin, director of Rebuilding Together agreed.”If you shut your eyes and look at these houses in your mind, they go back to the World’s Fair. They were beautiful homes in great states, but now you open your eyes and see these homes are in dire need of help,” he said.It is an ongoing effort in French’s ward. He calls it the Block-by-Block initiative. By the time it reaches its two-year mark, 100 homes will have been repaired. And it inspires. While volunteers worked upstairs, Taylor cleaned out her basement, perhaps for the first time since she moved in, in 1966.”Everybody’s eager to work and that puts me motivated to do something,” she said. “Since I’ve got them, we can do it.”"I am truly grateful and appreciative for their work, thank you, thank you, you thank you,” she added.

French is proud of the results, too. “The murder rate in our ward is on pace to be reduced by 80 percent over last year, knock on wood, so we’re going to keep working throughout the summer to keep violent incidents down. But days like this are really inspiring for everybody participating.”