Chris Grundy of DIY’s Cool Tools Touts RTMD Safety Month
Chris Grundy, host of DIY’s Cool Tools, appears on Colorado’s Best on Thursday, June 13, 2013 to connect Rebuilding Together Metro Denver’s focus on home safety with National Safety Month. Grundy, a longtime supporter of Rebuilding Together, will demonstrate four basic and easy-to-do safety upgrades to ensure summer time safety. With RTMD’s focus on helping create safe ...
Goings-On in June at RTMD
June 5, 2013: We closed on the sale of a rehabilitated foreclosed property in Colorado Springs. The property was donated by JP Morgan Chase earlier this year. Yvonne, the buyer on left, is all smiles as she signs to own a home after decades of hard work. Agent, Chris Berisford of Cherry Creek Properties, assisted ...
RTMD and Chase Partner on Foreclosed Properties
Earlier this year, JP Morgan Chase donated a foreclosed townhome property to RTMD. On June 5, 2013, President/CEO, Kathryn Arbour, and Yvonne Dobrowolski of Colorado Springs, cheerfully signed sale documents giving Yvonne her home after decades of hard work as medical office assistant. Chase works with Rebuilding Together affiliates across the country through its REO ...
Healthy Housing Challenge Basic Safety List
As one of nine affiliates participating with the National Center for Healthy Housing to tighten a set of common practices among Rebuilding Together affiliates across the county, the following list represents simple, but essential, things to check for as you think about creating a safe and healthy home for yourself or your loved one. Wells ...
June Is…
June is… National Safety Month. Another month is underway at Rebuilding Together Metro Denver, and it is shaping up to be a busy and important one. As we contribute to improving the safety of our metro communities, we will highlight easy to implement ideas throughout this month. We will also give you a behind the ...
Poverty in Some Surprising Places
The book published yesterday by the Brookings Institute revealed that not only does poverty continue to grow in the U.S., but it is showing up now in the suburbs, having grown by 67% between 2000 and 2011. Poverty is no stranger to urban communities over the years. While the overall percentage of the suburban population ...
Celebrating Memorial Day Early: Safeway and RTMD Assist Local Veteran
With thoughts of the long Memorial Day weekend creeping in, let us not be distracted from what reflecting on the true meaning of Memorial Day – honoring and celebrating those who have served in the armed forces, fallen soldiers and returned veterans alike. Be it our grandfathers who fought in World War II or our ...
From Lunch To Lowe’s: Helpful Ways To Give On Mother’s Day
Blog by Jamie Magyar With Mother’s Day just around the corner, taking place this year on Sunday, May 12, time to brainstorm and settle on the perfect Mother’s Day gift is rapidly running out. Although Safeway and Hallmark gift stores may have a plethora of perfectly arranged flowers and poetically written cards, we at RTMD ...
Shred Day Raises over $700
The RTMD fundraiser Shred Day on Saturday, May 4, 2013 proved to be a big success with dozens of folks bringing their old documents and files to the Cintas document shredding truck in the morning and watching them disappear into fragments. We raised over $7001 Thanks to the kindness of several Cherry Creek Properties agents, RTMD can ...
Ball Aerospace Vets’ Resource Group Teams with Lowe’s on Ramp
On two chilly February Saturdays, the Veterans’ Resource Group from Ball Aerospace, gathered at Marie’s home to build and install a modular ramp donated by Lowe’s. This group of employees, all former veterans, gets together frequently to share stories, contribute to important causes and volunteer to help veterans and their families. Willy Smith, one of ...
