Our Impact
4,750+
Families helped since 1995.
$21,586
Average household income of families served.
$413,500
Value of volunteer hours donated each year.
OUR MISSION
Our mission: repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives. Our vision: safe homes and communities for everyone.
Key Services Provided
Rebuilding Together brings community volunteers and construction companies together to complete home repair services for low-income families. Services range from installing grab bars, flooring, painting, wheelchair ramps, replacing roofs and windows. Since starting in 1995, we have helped over 4,750 families.
Key Audiences Served
Rebuilding Together serves families, individuals, veterans and people with disabilities. Client referrals come to us from health and human service agencies serving low-income clients, neighbors and co-workers.
Ways to Give
Your time and talent. Our organization uses both skilled and general volunteers year-round.
Give funds. Every dollar makes a difference:
$150 helps to buy a low-flow toilet, $250 helps to buy a kitchen sink, $500 helps to buy a front door, $1,000 helps to buy siding, $2,000 helps to buy flooring
Donate building materials.
Provide food for volunteer teams.
Organize your own team of volunteers.
What are the most immediate needs to support your organization?
Our families’ ability to meet their basic needs — such as groceries, prescriptions, car repairs and critical home repairs — has suffered due to record-breaking inflation, which has hit low-income families the hardest. The families we assist have low cash buffers and have suffered economic impacts. Our organization has experienced increased costs for materials for each repair we complete. With local financial support, we can continue meeting this critical need at no cost to those we serve.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Executive committee:
President: John Murphy, Beisser Lumber and Home Builders Association
Past President: Linda Westergaard, RE/MAX Precision and Des Moines City Council
Vice President: Michael Belknap, the Zine Group & Pella Corp
Treasurer: Scott Dobesh, Shazam, ITS
Secretary: Les Sulgrove, NoCoast MLS/Iowa Association of Realtors
At-large members:
Dave DeMeuse, Turner
Chris Dilley, ServiceNow
John Gaspari, Wright Services
Trevor Haden, Ryan Co. US, Inc.
Troy Hodapp, JE Dunn
Bill Miller, Layton Construction
Zach Koester, Koester Construction
Eric Pope, GreenState Credit Union
Colton Taylor, Hildreth Construction
Javier Valdez, Rate
Terry Welker, Universal HR Solutions & Iowa State University