2013 annual report - Rebuilding Together Houston

2013 ANNUAL REPORT
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Our goal is to create a home
that is warm, safe, and dry.
Rebuilding Together Houston (RTH) is Houston’s largest
community outreach organization working to preserve affordable
homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods. RTH provides
home repairs and renovation services at no cost to low-income
homeowners in need, including elderly, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people impacted by natural disasters.
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Executive
Director
Message
Dear Friends and “Family” of Rebuilding Together Houston,
Rebuilding Together Houston (RTH) has just completed 2013 and our first year of internal rebuilding as we set our
sights on a newly forming initiative: “Super Impact 17.” We have adopted a vision for the next three years of doubling
the impact we have on the lives of Houston’s low-income elderly, disabled and veteran homeowners. We would like to
dramatically impact not just the 500+ lives we do today, but 1000+ lives—and be prepared by 2017 (coincidentally the
date of Houston’s Super Bowl LI - or 51) to do it on an annual basis. It’s an ambitious goal but, with your continued
help it can be done—and must be done, especially as Houston feels the effect of the aging baby boom generation!
A few highlights from my first year serving as your Executive Director:
• We rebuilt the staff, following a year of retirements and transition; added new Directors for Construction,
Community Relations/Special Projects, and Advancement; and stabilized our office administration
• We oversaw the largest amount of special events in RTH history, including:
❍ Projects with the NBA, Lowe’s & Carter’s Kids, Sears & The American Legion, BBVA Compass & the
Houston Dynamo, Honeywell, Keller Williams, and more -- overall more than $250,000 of corporate funding poured into transforming the lives of elderly homeowners, veterans, and elementary-aged
school children
❍ Year three of a partnership with The Home Depot Foundation and Home Depot Houston employees,
who together have brought more than $1M into Houston over the three years; and completed
another 20 veterans homes in 2013
• Altogether we helped complete more than 500 projects in 320 homes with over 230 volunteer crews,
contractors, and special events partners; we worked two projects at a downtown housing unit of 100
veterans; and altogether (contractors and volunteers) deployed more than $3M of value to Houston’s
elderly, disabled and veteran populations
• Finally, RTH met its annual financial goals that included new investment of $100,000 in people and
Information Technology processes to set RTH on path to be prepared to reach our 2017 vision
It’s been a very exciting and rewarding year, and I could go on...but, the secret to RTH’s thirty-two-year history, and
the key to it’s next thirty-two years is you: our partners, our friends, our RTH “family.” I look forward to more building
and rebuilding in 2014, to continuing the building of our RTH mission platform, but more importantly, building on our
current partnerships, and discovering new partnerships (such as the remarkable fifteen-homes-per-year partnership
with Camden that began in 2013).
Look for me on your volunteer work sites in 2014, as I will look for you. Thanks for letting me share the Rebuilding
Together ride with you!
Sincerely,
James E. (Jim) Soller
Executive Director
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BEFORE
AFTER
2013 IMPACT
Volunteer Home Repair Program............................................................................................233
Interior Repair Program..............................................................................................................................................179
Roofs Over Houston.....................................................................................................................................................................63
Safe Home Program Wheelchair Ramps............................................................43
Total Projects...................................................................................................................................................................................................518
Families Served.....................................................................................................................................................................................320
Volunteers........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5,520
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Improving homes & lives.
2013 DONORS
Rebuilding Together Houston appreciates the many corporations, foundations, individuals and public funding agencies that contribute to our success.
Our donors share a dedication to bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the lives of low-income, elderly homeowners in need.
Their generosity makes it possible for RTH to sustain transformative rebuilding programs in Houston and Harris County. Support in any amount
is received most gratefully. For information on giving, please call Chuck Lutke at (713) 923-1855, extension 24.
GRAND GUARANTOR: $250,000 OR MORE
Harris County Housing Finance Corporation
Home Depot Foundation
DIAMOND CIRCLE: $100,000 OR MORE
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
Houston Housing Finance Corporation
NBA Cares
PLATINUM CIRCLE: $50,000 OR MORE
City of Houston
ExxonMobil Foundation
JP Morgan Chase
Lowe’s
GOLDEN CIRCLE: $25,000 OR MORE
BBVA Compass
BP
Cameron Corporation
Harry S. and Isabel C. Cameron Foundation
Houston Endowment
McCalvin Enterprises
Reliant Energy
Sears
Second Baptist Church
Shell Oil Company
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Wells Fargo Foundation
SILVER CIRCLE: $15,000 OR MORE
Bank of America
IberiaBank
Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
Phillips 66
BRONZE CIRCLE: $10,000 OR MORE
American General Corporation
Brown Foundation
Houston Esperanza
Ray C. Fish Foundation
Union Baptist Association
FOUNDER: $5,000 OR MORE
Chapelwood United Methodist Church
Amegy Bank
CenterPoint Energy
Green Bank
Randy & Janis Henry
Plains All American Pipeline
BENEFACTOR: $2,500 OR MORE
Energy Transfer Partners
First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood
David & Rosine Matthews
Gary Olander
Sara Ortwein
Jim & Jan Soller
Spectra Energy
Valero Energy Foundation
SUSTAINER: $1,000 OR MORE
Booz Allen Hamilton
Fifth Ward CRC
Walter S. Light, Jr.
Mark & Nancy McGuire
Peter Nardo
Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Sovereign Bank
W. Howard Taylor
Weyerhaeuser Foundation
Fred L. & Kellye M. Williams
Darryl & Dawnia Willis
SUPPORTER: $500 OR MORE
Capital Title of Texas
Jamie H. & Kenneth R. Coons
Fig Services, LLC
First American Home Buyers Corp.
Randy Fouts
Christopher Krummel
Brian Landrum
Kevin Rafferty
Jeffrey Shipley
Thomas R. & Joyce Standish
Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Texas American Title
United States Gypsum
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FRIEND: $100 OR MORE
Jack & Andrea Angelo
BHP Billiton Ltd.
Steve & Correne Bjorklund
Anna Boase
Les Cave III
Bendan J. & Carol H. Deely
Tomas & Linda Delia
Scott Flathouse
D. V. Flores, P. E.
Greater Houston Community Foundation
Stephen T. & Eileen M. Hall
Hewlett-Packard
Ralph & Maria Hillman
Honeywell Hometown Solutions
Honeywell International Charity
Manson B. Johnson Ministries
Mary C. and Dwight S. Kaligian
David G. Kraft
Ray & Virginia C. Leiker
Brian Lizcwek
Chuck Lutke
David & Heidi Massin
Mark Montgomery
Michael Mullins
Cary Palulis
Dorothy Schaettle
Karen Shorten
Herb & Mary L. Smith
Brian Stoker
Stanley C. & ShuYing Teerman
UM Army
Shiji Varkey
John E. Walsh, Jr.
Carey Widder
Peggy Wilkins
Rebuilding Together is especially grateful to all donors
whose employers match their contributions to housing
for the elderly. Please check with your company to see
if your gift may be matched to help RTH continue to
grow. We also extend our most sincere appreciation to
all donors who helped meet our annual income needs
with gifts of $1 to $99.
Thank You!
2013 VOLUNTEER CREWS
Rebuilding Together Houston wishes to thank the following corporations, congregations
and community organizations whose contributions of time, talent and equipment helped
make possible the tremendous success of the RTH Volunteer Home Repair Program.
AECOM
Agrifos Fertilizer
AMEC
American Druze Society
American Legion
Apache Corporation
Bailey Architects
Bank of America
BHP Billiton
Booz Allen Hamilton
BP
BBVA Compass
Camden
Cameron
CenterPoint Energy
Chapelwood United Methodist Church
Christ The Good Shepherd Catholic Community
City of Houston Health & Human Services
City of Houston Solid Waste
City of Houston Streets & Drainage
Covenant Lutheran Church
Creative Property Restoration Homes
David Weekley Homes
Dynegy
Emerson Unitarian Church
ExxonMobil
First Presbyterian Church Kingwood
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Foundry United Methodist Church
Gensler Architects
Gexa Energy
Grant Thornton
Green Bank
Greenlit Investments
Gulf Interstate Engineering
Hines
Holman Street Baptist Church
The Home Depot
Honeywell
Houston Dynamo
Houston Oasis
Houston Police Department
HP
Huron Consulting Group
IberiaBank
Invesco
JE Dunn Construction
Keller Williams
Klein United Methodist Church
Knights of Peter Claver Council #159
Kroger
KSEV Radio
Lowe’s
Marek Brothers
McCalvin Enterprises
McCarthy Building Company
Memorial Church of Christ
Messiah Lutheran Church
Mustang Engineering
NBA Cares
Northbrook High School MVP
Pasadena ISD
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ARLEN NYDAM
Bringing volunteers and communities
together to improve the homes and lives
of low-income homeowners in need.
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Patterson + Sheridan LLP
Phillips 66
Project Management Institute
PV Rentals
Rentech
RTH Team Carranza
Ryan Homebuilders
Second Baptist Church
Shell
Sky Lion Investments
Span Construction
Spectra Energy
St. John’s School
St. Martha Catholic Church
St. Thomas Presbyterian Church
St. Timothy Lutheran Church
SWE Homes
Texas Air National Guard
Texas Woman’s University
The Providence on Southmore
Trendmaker Homes
UM Army
Union Baptist Association
Valero Houston Refinery
Wells Fargo
Woodgroup
YES Prep
For information about volunteering with RTH, please
contact Terri Drabik-O’Reilley at toreilley@rt-houston.org
or call 713 923-1855, ext 15. THANK YOU!