Thomas Grillo
Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal
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More than 350 volunteers from Greater Boston real estate, banking, health care and retail companies will turn out on Saturday to make critical repairs and renovations for four needy families and three nonprofit facilities.
The event, sponsored by Rebuilding Together Boston and part of National Rebuilding Day, will bring together volunteers to renovate homes and nonprofit facilities in Hyde Park, Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury, South End, and West Roxbury, at no cost to recipients.
Sponsors and many of their employee volunteers include: Gilbane Building Co., Sea-Dar Construction, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton, Grand Circle Foundation, Home Depot Foundation, Merrill Lynch, Pro Teck Valuation Services, TD Bank Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Bullhorn, DiMella Shaffer, Starbuck Coffee Co., and Wells Fargo Foundation.
Since its founding in 1991, Rebuilding Together Boston has completed 400 projects with an estimated value at nearly $7 million and managed 20,000 volunteers. Recipients are unable to pay for critical repairs because of hardships such as advancing age, medical emergencies, low incomes, rising property taxes or stretched organizational budgets. Rebuilding Together Boston receives no funding from government agencies. Instead, they rely on contributions, as well as donated goods and services from local businesses. For more information go to: www.rtboston.org
Seven sites below will be worked on by volunteers on April 26:
- St. Mary’s Center for Women Children, 90 Cushing Avenue, Dorchester
- Nazareth House, 91 Regent Street, Roxbury
- Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion., 85 West Newton St., South End
- A disabled widow of a WWII veteran who raised three children in her home, 54 Seminole St., Hyde Park
- An elderly woman who’s home was broken into and vandalized, 28 Badger Road, Hyde Park
- A man who raised six children in their home whose family is experiencing economic hardships, 5 Houghton St., Dorchester
- An elderly widow unable to keep up with home repairs since her husband’s passing, 45 Alabama St., Mattapan
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