Sears “Heroes at Home” program Salutes and Supports America’s Military on Veterans Day
Article type: Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 11, 2009 – Rebuilding Together, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership, is working with Sears on this Veteran’s Day to complete the latest of “Heroes at Home” projects. The Heroes at Home program has completed more than 500 rebuild projects for military veterans and their families and assisted 3500 individuals.
This Veteran’s Day, Sears and Rebuilding Together, are taking on a major renovation in Boston, The New England Center for Homeless Veterans’. The center offers a residential housing program along with supportive services focusing on education, employment and health care to their resident veterans. The project will honor those that Rebuilding Together and Sears are committed to serving through the “Heroes at Home” program. Renovations began on November 5 and the mass-volunteer effort will culminate on Veteran’s Day with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“On Veterans’ Day, through our Heroes at Home program, it is an honor to recognize the military service of men and women and to offer them a safe and warm place to call home”, said Don Hamblen, vice president and chief marketing officer for Sears. “We also were pleased that our local Sears employee volunteers could assist with the renovation of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans.”
Sears recognized the need to assist military families facing incredible hardship and they responded by working with Rebuilding Together on the “Heroes at Home,” program which is dedicated to serving military families. Over the past three years, Sears has helped Rebuilding Together’s Veterans Housing program by raising more than $9 million dollars The three year relationship has provided significant home repairs and accessibility modifications for hundreds of military families across the nation.
“Rebuilding Together thanks Sears Holdings, their employees and customers for making the ‘Heroes at Home,’ program such an amazing success , all with the single goal of helping to improve the lives of military families,” said Gary A. Officer, President & CEO, Rebuilding Together. “This Veterans’ Day project in Boston is just another example of Sears’ constant commitment to our military personnel.”
To find out more about Rebuilding Together, or to refer a military family to the program, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org or call 1-800-473-4229.
ABOUT REBUILDING TOGETHER
Rebuilding Together is the nation's leading nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods by providing critical home repair and modification services to those in need at no cost to homeowners..With the help of everyday citizen volunteers, skilled trades people, the support of local business and major corporate partners, Rebuilding Together affiliates in America’s largest cities and smallest towns make life considerably better for thousands of low-income homeowners and the communities in which they live by completing 10,000 projects per year. In addition to its core home repair work, Rebuilding Together also rehabilitates community centers and conducts home modification and repair programs that focus on aging in place. Rebuilding Together has programs dedicated to ageing in place, energy efficiency, veteran’s housing, and disaster recovery and reconstruction. For more information, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.
Media Contact: BCarter@rebuildingtogether.org (202) 518-3500
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