This is SEAONC’s fifteenth year of participation in this annual charity event. Rebuilding Together is a nationwide, nonprofit organization that coordinates volunteers and sponsorship in an effort to renovate neighborhood facilities and repair the homes of low-income, disabled and elderly homeowners.

This past April, SEAONC sponsored a facility project. We had a turnout of 110 volunteers (over 65 from SEAONC), who completed a wide range of projects at Gateway High School in San Francisco. The teachers, staff, and students of Gateway High, some of whom also spent the day working with us, were amazed by the transformation.

In one day, teams of volunteers constructed a new storage closet, painted the main staircase/entryway, auditorium wall, and art gallery, repaired lighting fixtures, repaired and replaced water fountains, covered and hung sound boards, new whiteboards, and bulletin boards in classrooms, landscaped the front of the school complete with new concrete pads, tables, and benches, and left the place cleaner and brighter than we found it.

In order for SEAONC to participate again this coming year, we need donations. We would like to continue this year as a “Facility Sponsor”; however, we need to raise $7500. Please consider contributing to Rebuilding Together. We cannot do this without your support. If every member gave $5, we would exceed our goal!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jennifer Eggers at 510-272-9040.

Please mail tax-deductible donations, payable to Rebuilding Together, to:

Rebuilding Together
c/o Lucie Fougner
Degenkolb Engineers
300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 450
Oakland, CA 94612

Thank you!

Rebuilding Together 2005 was a huge success! We had a turnout of 110 volunteers on Saturday, April 30th, (over 65 from SEAONC) who completed a wide range of projects at Gateway High School in San Francisco.

A week before Rebuilding Day, a group of SEAONC members prepared the site for the volunteers by organizing the materials, cleaning and taping the walls to prep for painting, and planning out the various project for the following weekend.

On the day of Rebuilding Together, the volunteers formed 8 teams, each taking responsibility for a different part of the school. The teams constructed a new storage closet, painted the main staircase/entryway, auditorium wall, and art gallery, repaired lighting fixtures, repaired and replaced water fountains, covered and hung sound boards, new whiteboards, and bulletin boards in classrooms, landscaped the front of the school complete with new concrete pads, tables, and benches, and left the place cleaner and brighter than we found it.

The teachers, staff, and students of Gateway High, some of whom also spent the day working with us, were amazed by the transformation. There were projects completed that had been on the wish list of the school for years. Margot Shaub, Principal at Gateway High, quotes:

“Wow the entire school community is on cloud 9! What a difference your work has done in our building and our community. Students are very thankful and those that worked on Saturday are so appreciative for the opportunity to enhance their school building, they requested an assembly for today to explain the work … all to thunderous applause from the student body. The faculty is besides themselves!” SEAONC sponsors a facility for Rebuilding Together by providing sources of volunteers and funding. That fundingis made up solely of generous donations from firms and individual members, who deserve our recognition and thanks. Of course, none of these tasks would have been accomplished without the contributions from our tireless volunteers! Thanks from this year’s Rebuilding Together committee: Steven Oh, Mei Kuen Liu, Derrick Roorda, Jennifer Eggers and led in construction by Jim Passaglia and Eric Long.