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Rebuilding Together Joins President's 'United We Serve' Initiative With Volunteer Participation Nationwide to Honor September 11th

Posted on: Friday, 11 September 2009, 03:23 CDT

Plans to Distribute Energy-Savings Education Kits to 50,000

Hosts Two Major Home Rebuild Projects in Washington, D.C., Metro

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rebuilding Together, the nation's leading nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership, has answered President Obama's call to service by embracing the United We Serve Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11th.

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The Rebuilding Together 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance will include major home rehabilitation projects around the country, highlighted by two metro D.C. mega-projects bringing together nearly 200 volunteers.

Rebuilding Together's United We Serve campaign has been generously supported by presenting sponsors Choice Hotels and ConocoPhillips and supporting sponsors AARP, the Alliance to Save Energy, Cricket Communications, the Safeway Foundation and Sears Holdings. The D.C. area projects will feature installation of new appliances from the Sears Blue Appliance Crew and other home improvements aimed at lowering energy bills at each of the homes.

Simultaneously, Rebuilding Together affiliates and AmeriCorps Members of Rebuilding Together's CapacityCorps will organize mass distribution of consumer energy-efficiency education kits to as many as 50,000 low-income Americans in 19 states where Rebuilding Together has CapacityCorps members.

"We are proud to participate in this summer of service initiative," said Gary A. Officer, President & CEO, Rebuilding Together. Continued Officer, "Our corporate partners leaped at the chance to do something in remembrance of September 11th and show our collective determination to rebuild and renew this great nation".

In addition to providing financial and educational support, sponsors will send out teams of employee volunteers in full force. Choice Hotels is making a special commitment to national service with the launch of their national partnership with Rebuilding Together, "Room to Rebuild" on the 11th. Rebuilding Together's longtime partner, Sears Holdings, will donate multiple energy- efficient appliances to both homes in the DC metro area as an additional way to support the day's efforts.

You can follow the action from Rebuilding Together's United We Serve project sites by visiting RebuildingTogether.org; Facebook.com/RebuildingTogether or via Twitter @RebldgTogthr or hash tag #UnitedWeServe.

About Rebuilding Together:

Rebuilding Together is the nation's largest nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods by providing home repair and renovation services free of charge to those in need. Through the support of corporate sponsors, local businesses and the hands-on work of over 200,000 volunteers led by more than 200 affiliates, Rebuilding Together renovates and repairs nearly 10,000 homes and nonprofit facilities annually. In addition to its core home repair work, Rebuilding Together renovates community centers and conducts home modification and repair programs that focus on elder home safety, energy efficiency, veterans housing, and gulf coast recovery. For more information, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.

SOURCE Rebuilding Together

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