Inside this issue:

• From Laurie McCaw
• Homeowner Spotlight: Ramps Are In At This Home
• It's Not Too Late to Support Rebuilding Together With Your Holiday Shopping
• Rebuilding After the Hurricanes
• Homeowners Apply Now for April

From Laurie McCaw,
Executive Director:

Happy Holidays and New Year to YOU!

Here at Rebuilding Together we are making our lists, and checking them twice....in preparation for a new and exciting 2006! With lots ahead to accomplish next year, our staff is wrapping up - not boxes or presents - but end of the year tasks.

Do you like to swing a hammer? Is painting your expertise? Then, we'll be needing YOU - soon! In 2006, Rebuilding Together will help more than 200 homeowners with hundreds of repair projects as we gear up for TWO Rebuilding Campaigns in April and October. I hope you'll join us in our effort to help low income elderly and disabled homeowners to continue to live in warm, safe and dry homes.

In the meantime, may you and yours have a warm, safe and joyous holiday season.

Thanks for your continued support and generosity to our mission.

Your donations are always needed and always appreciated. Every dollar donated is leveraged into $4 of services for at-risk homeowners.

Click the button below to donate online with a credit card, or mail a check to:
Rebuilding Together Metro Denver
5840 E Evans Ave
Denver,CO 80222

Thank you!

Do you know of someone in need of repairs? Rebuilding Together continues to make year round repairs through A Home for All Seasons, it's year round program that focuses on Aurora, Commerce City and all of Arapahoe County. Each month we provide home repairs to residents needing help to continue living independently in warm, safe and dry homes.

Call 720-524-9205 for more info on A Home for All Seasons

What could be easier and feel better than having up to 26% of your online holiday shopping purchases donated to Rebuilding Together Metro Denver? Just go to iGive.com and select Rebuilding Together Metro Denver as your cause. Then, when you shop online with any of their over 600 stores, some part of your purchase will be donated to RTMD by the store.

Or... for that person who has all the "stuff" they need, you can also give the gift of donating in someone else's name. Just click on the Network for Good button above and follow the instructions to designate your gift and even generate a holiday card to the recipient.

Rebuilding Together's National Office, with the help of its 250 affiliates nationwide and Countrywide Financial Corporation has launched "Rebuild 1000!", a year-long project to rebuild 1,000 homes in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf area. This project will involve 25,000 volunteers and deliver well over $10 million in market value work.

Express your interest in volunteering to be on the RTMD team. Click here to fill out a volunteer application.

Rebuilding Together Metro Denver will probably participate in Rebuild 1000! by sending one or more teams of volunteers to New Orleans or Gulfport sometime in 2006 to help with this project. We will especially need skilled people such as roofers, carpenters, plumbers and electricians, but as in all Rebuilding Together projects, there is plenty of work for all skill levels. The teams will stay about a week. We'll know more about the exact work scope, transportation and living arrangements as the project gets closer, but if you think you might be interested and able to help, please fill out an application now. We'll stay in touch as the projects develop and we finalize plans to help.

For more information on this project click here.

The next National Rebuilding Day is April 29, 2006. All over the country volunteers will be rehabilitating the homes of low-income elderly, people with disabilities and families with children. Over 8,500 homes will be made warm, safe and dry on that day.

In Denver, Rebuilding Together will rehabilitating 40 homes on National Rebuilding Day with the assistance of more than 1000 volunteers that will impact more than 100 homeowners. All repairs will be done at no charge to the homeowners.

If you or someone you know is low-income and elderly or disabled and is need of home repairs such as roof repair or replacement, window repair or replacement, flooring, cabinets, light plumbing, appliances, handrails, grab bars, fire safety equipment, fencing, weatherizing, doors and locks, furnace replacement or ramps, click on the button above right to get a pdf of the application, or call Joey at 720-524-0840.

The deadline for applications for the April Rebuilding Day is December 15th.

Wells Fargo &
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
Presenting Sponsor 2005