Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) will celebrate 2025’s National Rebuilding Day with repair projects at 17 homes and community facilities across Friday and Saturday, April 25th and 26th. More than 500 volunteers are expected to provide crucial renovations, including painting, debris removal, fence repair, landscaping, and carpentry repairs, amongst other modifications and improvements to neighbors-in-need across the San Francisco Peninsula throughout this spring in partnership with RTP. All repairs are provided at no cost to recipients.
Including those 17 project sites, RTP and its partners and their volunteers will service 27 individual homes and community facilities this season, across 37 individual volunteer events scheduled through June 14th. The projects run throughout San Mateo County, from Daly City and San Bruno to East Palo Alto and Woodside, as well as in Mountain View and Los Altos Hills in northern Santa Clara County.
“National Rebuilding Day celebrates the spirit of volunteerism by offering hundreds of community-minded members a meaningful, hands-on way to help prevent displacement and preserve affordable home ownership on the Peninsula ”, says Melissa Lukin, Executive Director for Rebuilding Together Peninsula. “The donation of time, energy, and financial support from nearly 30 corporate, trade, and service organizations, quite simply, puts love into action. With the community’s generosity, we’ll enhance safety and pride for homeowners who couldn’t otherwise afford these repairs.”
Tencent America, Woodlawn Foundation, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, and more than 25 other corporate and service organizations are sponsoring RTP’s National Rebuilding Day by providing volunteer labor and/or critical funding for materials, tools, and associated indirect costs. Participating partners represent a breadth of industry – technology, healthcare, legal, finance, foundations, and construction – underscoring the broad recognition of both the need for and the positive impact of RTP’s work within the San Francisco Peninsula community.
Project sites to be repaired and renovated this spring include 17 homes and 10 non-profit facilities, with homeowners and facility representatives receiving repair service ranging from critical safety modifications to renovations that upgrade the overall health of their home environments.
“If it weren’t for Rebuilding Together”, says “Chris”, a senior Mountain View homeowner living on her own, “I would be homeless.” On National Rebuilding Day, Chris will receive needed fence repair, stability railings, and improved accessibility in her yards – neglected renovations that have long impacted the safety of her home, and for which RTP and its volunteers will now address at no charge.