Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches and Sears Announce Fall Heroes at Home Projects

Sept. 5, 2011 - PRLog -- WHAT:  Heroes at Home.  Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches is teaming with Sears Holdings for a rebuild, one of a series occurring across the country throughout the fall. Heroes at Home projects are key rebuilding initiatives for Rebuilding Together. Since 2007, Rebuilding Together and Sears’ Heroes at Home program have rebuilt veterans’ homes and community centers to help improve the lives of our nation’s military families through critical renovations.
   
Sears’ Heroes at Home program plans to complete more than 60 projects throughout the country this fall, and to-date has raised more than $12 million to help veterans and their families live in viable and safe homes. Rebuilding Together has completed more than 900 rebuilding projects for veterans across the country.


   
WHO:   Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches is an affiliate of Rebuilding Together, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership by revitalizing communities nationwide. Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches, Sears Holdings and Veterans Services of America will work together with 100 volunteers to engage local community members and businesses to impact:

•  Working together through this program we will be able to help Veterans Services of    America to complete the new living space and provide the Transitional Housing for At Risk to be Homeless or already Homeless Veterans including a Community Center which will include class rooms and office facilities.

WHEN:    October 22, 2011 Starting at 8:00a.m.
WHERE:    Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches will be working in at 705 11th Street, West Palm Beach, FL  33406  

CONTACT:    Media Contacts for Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches:  Joanna Aiken 697-2700 Ext. 4701  Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches, Inc. Cell: (561) 358-2163

Media Contacts for Rebuilding Together’s National Headquarters:
Becky Carter (202) 518-3500 (0) (202) 302-1139 (m) bcarter@rebuildingtogether.org

About Rebuilding Together of the Palm Beaches, Inc.
Rebuilding Together is a national nonprofit with a network of more than 200 affiliates across the United States.  Our mission is to preserve affordable housing by bringing volunteers and communities together to rehabilitate the homes of low-income homeowners.  There are 24-million low-income homeowners in America. That number is predicted to grow to an astonishing 28.5 million by 2010. More and more families are placed in the position of choosing between vital necessities over essential home repairs and modifications.  Rebuilding Together believes the disabled and elderly should be allowed to remain in their own homes whenever possible.   We believe that homeowners displaced by natural disaster will get back into safe housing with help from the community. We believe that our nation’s veterans who return with disabilities deserve a helping hand so they may return to their own homes in basic comfort.


About Sears Holdings
Sears Holdings Corporation is the nation's fourth largest broadline retailer with approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics and automotive repair and maintenance. Sears Holdings is the 2010 ENERGY STAR® Retail Partner of the Year. Key proprietary brands include Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, and a broad apparel offering, including such well-known labels as Lands' End, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, as well as the Apostrophe and Covington brands. It also has the Country Living collection, which is offered by Sears and Kmart. We are the nation's largest provider of home services, with more than 12 million service calls made annually. Sears Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corporation. For more information, visit Sears Holdings' website at www.searsholdings.com