Rebuilding together east BAY-north will recruit a minimum of 100 volunteers

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Rebuilding Together East Bay-North $460,442 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) 94.002 to provide home modification and safety services to vulnerable populations in California from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024.

Leveraging a minimum of 100 volunteers, including at least 30 Senior Corps volunteers in each area, RTEBN will focus on 1) modifying homes for aging-in-place and accessibility for seniors and persons with disabilities, 2) partnering volunteers with organizations like food banks and Meals on Wheels, 3) coordinating home modifications for COVID-19 recovery patients with hospitals, and 4) serving veterans and individuals with disabilities. The CNCS investment of $75,000 will be supplemented by $25,000 in local funds to support these services targeting vulnerable homeowners and residents.

For an investment of $75,000, our work areas are as follows: 1. Healthy futures -- aging in place: using a minimum of 30 senior corps volunteers, to help both homeowners by modifying homes for seniors and people with disabilities. We may partner with other rebuilding together affiliates in alameda county, which performs similar work, and can share skilled senior corps volunteer tradespeople. We will use senior corps volunteers to leverage our resources and skills and expand our services from homeowners, to income-qualified senior apartment dwellers to bring many of the same safety improvements to them as well. We would expand a portion of our services to cover those who fall through the programmatic cracks. 2. Capacity building: we will use an additional 30 senior corp volunteers, by connecting them with other station partners, such as food banks, and food delivery services such as meals on wheels. We would also use these senior volunteers to train and transfer knowledge to new volunteers. 3. Disaster response services: using approximately 15 senior corps volunteers, we will coordinate with local hospitals to modify homes of people recovering from covid-19, and install needed safety equipment. 4. Veterans and military families: by providing these similar services to veterans and people with disabilities, we expect to use 25 senior corps volunteers. An additional 25 volunteers will be placed in non-focus areas. The cncs federal investment of $75,000 will be supplemented by $15,000 from the city of emeryville general fund, $10,000 from the oakland a?s, and other smaller donations totaling approximately $40,000.