Rebuilding The Wall, Inc.

Mission Statement

We stabilize and empower low-income families by renovating vacant inner city properties and giving the families the opportunity for homeownership.

We combat social injustice by building relationships across racial and socio-economic barriers.

We stablize community by the recycling of assets within the neighborhood.

Description

By providing safe and affordable rentals, transitional housing, and homeownership opportunities, we are providing very low and low income families obtainable opportunities to share in the redevelopment of our community.

To ensure success, RtW engages our families with services to overcome their obstacles to homeownership through our THRIVE opportunity that is designed to take families through an intensive two-year case management process that leads families from being at risk of homelessness to homeownership. While the family is working their Family Plan to Homeownership with their THRIVE case manager, they are also working alongside our staff and volunteers to rehab their future home. After the purchase of their home, THRIVE services are continued for one year to prevent foreclosure and to help the family continue to develop assets.

Our X-treme Jesus Crew Bible study serves as a youth mentoring program that includes Bible study, rewards for positive school performance, field trips, scholarships to Camp Tecumseh through the Doc Denio Youth Foundation, annual Thanksgiving Dinner, and annual Christmas Store. (Please note that participation in the X-treme Jesus Crew is not a requirement of participation in the housing and THRIVE portions of Rebuilding The Wall.)

To achieve our mission of combating social injustice by building relationships across racial and socio-economic lines we bring together persons of various backgrounds in our board structure, our staff, our volunteers and the THRIVE families. Upon the completion of a home, we have a celebration that brings together a beautiful tapestry of persons to rejoice over the accomplishment of the whole that none could have achieved alone. We have many college, school, civic, and church groups come to serve with us. When a group comes for the first time to a work day on our housing rehabs, our Executive Director tells the story of Rebuilding the Wall which includes the history of racial and social injustice that contributed to the devestation of our urban neighborhoods and the hope of reconciliation that is bringing us together to rebuild. We see this educational component to our volunteers as important as our work with low income families.

Organizational Statement of Faith

Program Type

Housing Program