Rebuilding Together Long Beach

History

Rebuilding Together started with the simple act of neighbors helping neighbors. In 1973, a small group of people in Midland, Texas, realized a growing need in their community. Homes in their community had fallen into disrepair and their neighbors could not afford to fix them on their own. The group volunteered their time and skills to rehabilitate the homes of their neighbors. Realizing the potential impact of this work, the group formed Christmas in April, with the intent of performing repair and rehabilitation work in their community every April. News of the group's good work spread slowly, but eventually achieved national recognition. The mission spread beyond the idea of providing service once a year in April to bringing together partners from all walks of life to help our neighbors year-round. We opened the national office in 1988 and became Rebuilding Together. Today, Rebuilding Together has grown into a premier nonprofit community revitalization organization.

Specialties

Since 1991, we have worked to revitalize communities and preserve affordable housing by providing free critical home repairs, accessibility modifications and energy-efficient upgrades to our older, differently-abled and veteran neighbors in need; and by rallying neighborhoods, nonprofits and government to beautify public spaces, rehabilitate facilities and create safer communities.