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Causes: Home Improvement & Repairs, Homeless & Housing
Mission: The mission of cover home repair is to build community and foster hope through cooperation and fellowship among all home repair and reuse participants.
Programs: The home repair program organizes volunteers to work in partnership with low-income, elderly and disabled upper valley residents to provide urgent home repair at little to no charge. The goal of this program is to make homes dry, warm and safe with projects that include roof repair, structural repair, weatherization, accessibility ramps and more. During this fiscal year, 247 volunteers contributed over 3,246 hours working on 98 home repair projects and 68 weatherization projects.
the recover store sells donated goods to customers of all incomes. Typical goods include appliances, furniture, recycled building supplies and light household goods. The recover store also has a voucher program that releases goods to needy homeowners with agency referrals at no cost. The voucher program totals approximately $8,000 per year. We had 1,120 volunteers hours in the store this fiscal year.