Make a gift to celebrate Tal and Justin's wedding.

Use Good Search as your internet search engine and web shopping portal, and support RTP.

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Buy an RTP baseball cap.

Learn more about our Endowment Fund.

Register on the eScrip system, and direct a percentage of your purchases at participating retailers to RTP.

Learn more here.

If you've registered with eScrip, remember to shop at your favorite online sites through this portal for RTP:

Gift Registry
You can "register" at RTP for your wedding, milestone birthday, or other special occasion. This alternative to a traditional gift registry lets you express a commitment to improving the quality of life for low-income communities. Contact Jen Wootten if you want guidance or support in asking your friends and family to make gifts to RTP in lieu of tangible presents.

More Information
Audited financial statements for RTP are available upon request (215.568.5044).

Interested in learning more about how your gift will make an impact on someone's life? 

Watch a Homeowner's Story.

Time, talent, tools, talk and treasury are the ingredients needed to ensure that RTP is successful in helping to preserve affordable homeownership. Find the role or roles that suit your values, energies, and abilities.

TIME & TALENT

RTP is 1,500 volunteers strong supported by a very small team of professionals and a dedicated Board of Directors. Are you willing to give some of your most precious asset (time) for a good cause?

Learn more about becoming involved in our program at the program level:

• Skilled Volunteer
• Project Leader
• Team Leader
• Hospitality Crew Member
• General Volunteer

Everyone has something to contribute and RTP is fortunate whenever someone lends his or her particular expertise to a project. Individuals and student teams have undertaken projects ranging from updating our homeowner resource manual to a research-based study on how to attract more skilled volunteers. See the descriptions of our committees and contact Jen Wootten if you are interested in learning about specific behind-the-scenes projects or click here to join our growing ranks of volunteers, and let us know what special skills and interests you have.

TOOLS

Besides roofing, RTP's largest investments are in the supplies, materials, and tools needed for the repair projects. If you represent a manufacturer or supplier, let us know so that we can determine (if and) how to put your product to work immediately. Contact Jen Wootten, Administrator and Program Coordinator.

OFFICE WISH LIST

We need basic office supplies, too, to keep things running smoothly. Next time you are out shopping, consider purchasing something for RTP.

•Binders: three-ring, durable, 1-inch, 200 sheets (with or without clear sleeve)
•Envelopes
        #10 Business, plain white
        9" x 12"
•Ink Cartridges
        Epson TO691/TO881 black
        Epson TO694/TO684  Yellow
        Epson TO883/TO693 in Magenta
        Epson TO692/TO682 in Cyan
        HP 5A
        Dell DH828
        Dell DH 829
•Folders: two pockets, solid colors, matte finish, no fasteners
•Paper: reams of white printer paper
•Stamps

TALK

RTP is well known in the neighborhoods in which we've worked over the years. Too many times, however, we hear “I've never heard of Rebuilding Together Philadelphia before.” You can help build RTP's visibility by talking us up wherever you go. Point people to the website so that they can learn more about our mission and work. Share your experiences with them so they have a sense of the powerful impact that comes from connecting volunteers to homeowners in need. Become part of our on-line communities on Facebook and LinkedIn, or follow us on Twitter. Join our ambassador network by contacting Jen Wootten, Administrator and Program Coordinator.

TREASURY

RTP relies on volunteers' generous gifts of time and energy, but cannot put the volunteers to work without your generous financial gift (fully tax-deductible) to help pay for materials and services.  Every dollar you give will generate $5 worth of repair services.

We need to raise $395,250 to leverage volunteer efforts in 2010-2011. Consider the following levels of gifts:

• $5,000 or more provides a higher level of support both to the organization as well as to the tools and supplies needed for projects. Please let us know if you are interested in this level of commitment and we will work with you in order to shape how to put your investment to good use.
• $3,000 supports the repairs for an entire house
• $2,000 provides a homeowner with a new roof
• $1,000 replaces six windows
• $500 subsidizes a major plumbing repair
• $250 replaces a water heater, flue pipe and leaking drain lines
• $100 fixes basement steps
• $50 replaces a door lock or installs two handrails in a two-story home

Click here to see a breakdown of target goals and Sponsorship Benefits.

SPONSORS
Click here to see our Sponsorship Benefits

We would like to thank our early sponsors for 2010-2011:

Civic Leader:  $50,000 or more

• Cricket Communications

Community Leader:  $25,000-$49,999

• City of Philadelphia (Philadelphia Water Department)
• CREW
• Wells Fargo Housing Foundation
• W.W. Smith Charitable Trust

Community Sponsors:  $10,000-$24,999

• Administration on Aging
• Bike & Build, Inc.
• BNY Mellon
• ConocoPhillips
• Dragon Boat Paddlers and Sponsors
• Nina Rivera and Peter Hardy
• Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
• Pepsi Beverages Company
• Sears Holdings Heroes at Home
• Wachovia Wells Fargo Bank, NA

Block Sponsors:  $5,000-$9,999

• Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church
• Honeywell International
• Lowe's
• Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

BUILD A LEGACY

To make a gift of any kind to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is an act of generosity. To make a long-term gift—one derived from the work of a lifetime—is to make a commitment beyond measure. Building a legacy for RTP is about making thoughtful gifts, large and small, to underpin RTP's future ability to revitalize low-income communities. As RTP enters its second generation of existence, we ask you to reflect on how you can help us build on the past we inherited from the founders of the organization as well as positively shape the future we are borrowing from our children.

THE FOUNDERS CIRCLE

The Founders Circle has been established to honor individuals who have given $25,000 or more, cumulatively, since April 2005 in combined program and endowment giving. Many thanks to the following members for their generosity and far sighted support of RTP:

• Robert Bellinger
• Daniel A. Schryer

ENDOWMENT

RTP's endowment was established in April 2005 to generate additional monies to support roofing and other projects that directly affect low-income homeowners. The endowment is invested and the principal will not be invaded. Income derived from the investment will be used to support homeowners in need. After initial transfers from reserves to endowment, the RTP endowment has grown over time in two ways: 1) Through gifts given in honor of someone's birthday, wedding or anniversary or in memory of a loved one 2) Through gifts made directly to the endowment by those who wish to support, specifically, RTP's sustainability. Your gift to RTP's endowment will help you affect low-income communities for generations to come.

PLANNED GIVING

By making a bequest or another kind of "planned gift" to RTP you would leave behind a lasting legacy and serve as a model to others. Please consider including RTP in your estate planning in recognition that this organization is aligned with your values and that you know we will be good stewards of your hard-won dollars.

Please contact Carrie Rathmann at 215.888.9975 or carrie@rebuildingphilly.org for more information on making a gift to RTP.

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization.  EIN 23-2549594.

The official registration and financial information of Rebuilding Together Philadelphia may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1.800.732.0999.  This information also is available at http://web.dos.state.pa.us/cgi-bin/Charities/char_form.cgi. Registration does not imply endorsement.