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About Rebuilding Together Dayton

• Rebuilding Together Dayton formed a collaboration with the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) by moving into the former Interstate Mortgage building next to the RTA hub on Main Street in Downtown Dayton in December 2011.

• Rebuilding Together Dayton, a non-profit volunteer-driven organization founded in 1996 by Preservation Dayton, Inc., has repaired over 1,000 homes in neighborhoods all across the city since its inception.
  
  
• The organization's mission is to build community partnerships and provide home rehabilitation for low-income Dayton homeowners, particularly the elderly and disabled, so they may live in warmth, safety and independence.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton is the only organization in the Miami Valley dedicated to rehabbing owner-occupied homes for low-income homeowners at no cost.
  
  
• Through in-kind labor and donated materials, Rebuilding Together Dayton is able to expand every dollar raised into $4.
  
  
• On April 30, 2011, over 1,200 Rebuilding Together Dayton volunteers worked on 22 homes and three community centers across the City of Dayton, providing $300,000 worth of home improvements and modifications.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton sselects projects from nominations by neighborhood groups, churches, neighborhood development corporations, city housing inspectors, priority boards and individuals.
  
  
• Rebuilding Day applicants must own their own homes in the City of Dayton and have a combined household income of less than 80% of the area median income. Preference is given to homeowners who are elderly and/or disabled and have lived in their homes for a minimum of 10 years. For 2011, the average age of our homeowner is 76 years, their average income is $17,000/year, the average time in their home is 36 years, and the average age of the home is 79 years.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton also offers Neighbor•Care, a year-round, county-wide home repair program. Neighbor•Care provides the services of skilled trades people who perform urgent home repairs and home modifications, such as wheelchair ramps and handrails. In 2011, 58 repairs/modifications were performed for 45 homeowners.
  
  
• In addition to National Rebuilding Day and Neighbor•Care, Rebuilding Together Dayton provides other programs to the community such as veterans housing repairs through the Heroes at Home program, lead abatement with Lead Safe for Kids' Sake, home modifications through Seniors Safe at Home, and many others.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton is governed by a 20-member volunteer Board of Directors and is staffed by a President/CEO, project manager, office administrator and one AmeriCorps member.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton formed a collaboration with the University of Dayton by moving into the Rubicon House on Brown Street in the Fairgrounds neighborhood in 2006.
  
  
• The local group is part of the national Rebuilding Together organization that has over 200 affiliates across the country. There are five other Rebuilding Together affiliates in Ohio.
  
  
• Across the country, on National Rebuilding Day 2011, 250,000 volunteers rehabbed 4,000 houses and non-profit facilities. The work took place in 1,880 cities and towns, delivering a market value of $50 million.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton’s administrative costs are covered by Community Development Block Grant funding through the City of Dayton and with Frail/Elderly funding through Montgomery County's Human Services levy. All contributions and sponsorships are used for project expenses.