About Rebuilding Together Dayton

• Rebuilding Together Dayton, a non-profit volunteer-driven organization founded in 1996 by Preservation Dayton, Inc., has repaired nearly 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 25, 2009, over 1,200 Rebuilding Together Dayton volunteers worked on 19 homes and four community centers across the City of Dayton, providing $300,000 worth of home improvements.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together Dayton selects 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 2010, the average age of our homeowner is 67.8 years, their average income is $16,000/year, and the average time in their home is 24 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 2009, 163 repairs/modifications were performed on 99 homes.
  
  
• 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 the Federal Home Loan Bank, 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 2009, 270,000 volunteers rehabbed 10,000 houses and non-profit facilities. The work took place in 1,880 cities and towns, delivering a market value of $100 million.
  
  
• 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.