Rebuilding Together Seattle

National Rebuilding month and day is Rebuilding Together Seattle's flagship program, first conducted locally in 1990. The program takes place throughout the month of april and culminates on the last saturday in april with volunteer groups restoring homes and nonprofit facilities through the support of community sponsors and partners. Nationally, over 1,500 homes and community spaces are worked on by around 120 Rebuilding Together affiliates across the country through the program event.

Safe at home is Rebuilding Together Seattle's year-round repair program, engaging individual volunteers and small groups in conducting critical home repair projects, "handyman-type" services, and/or routine maintenance at homes with repair scopes too challenging or too small to effectively utilize larger teams engaged through our other programs. These repairs range from accessibility and safety improvements such as grab bars, ramps, and flooring, to systems repairs such as minor electrical and plumbing, and a variety of other repair work. The safe at home program also includes other initiatives and partnerships, such as "open volunteer days," fall prevention, fire safety, and other focus areas, as well as a portion of our bipoc homeownership preservation work.

The team build program consists of sponsored builds that take place throughout the year, outside of the national Rebuilding month and day program. As with national Rebuilding month, funding partners supporting the program and the work at a home or nonprofit facility on our waiting list, are also invited to volunteer on the project. This volunteer work includes repairs, improvements, and modifications to the homes of low-income households to stabilize housing while improving the health outcomes of occupants.