Mission: Homeaid recruits professionals from the building industry to facilitate and assist in the construction or rehabilitation of dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives. Homeaid solicits, coordinates and tracks donations of labor and building materials donated from the building industry for specific projects brought to us by area homeless shelter partners. Homeaid also identifies area builders to serve as builder captains for each of the projects approved by the homeaid board of directors. The builder captains ensure that the quality of the work being done by our volunteers and businesses contributing to each project complies with building codes and standards.
Programs: Homeaid, which receives no government funding, takes pride in having constructed dignified housing for homeless families and individuals in sacramento since 1996. Each year, homeaid's board of directors approves the projects brought to us by nonprofit providers of homeless shelters. Since 1996, homeaid leveraged in-kind donations of over $7,281,000 from more than 100 homebuilders and their trade partners, enabling us to increase shelter capacity for the homeless by over 950 beds. Examples of homeaid's support in 2016 include:-complete a two bedroom expansion of a domestic violence shelter in yolo county. -began construction of a 22 bedroom emergency shelter for homeless women and children in sacramento county-continuing a major renovation of 12 apartments for homeless veterans and their families in the sacramento region.
each year homeaid sponsors a number of paint and "care" projects for homeless shelters, utilizing volunteers from the builder industry and the community to upgrade the interiors and exteriors of transitional housing for the homeless. Homeaid donates the materials, paint and labor to complete these projects. In 2016, volunteers donated almost 3761 hours of time valued at $103,575 to support these projects and events as well as serve on volunteer program committees to support homeaid's work in the community to prevent homelessness.
homeaid provides on-going outreach and communication regarding our services and accomplishments to businesses, builders, and potential donors. The purpose of our communication via our website, monthly newsletter, e-news, facebook, and presentations is to underscore the importance of the home building industry's role in addressing the housing of the homeless in our community. Homeaid seeks to keep in the forefront the fact that homeless shelters do not have the funding, resources, or expertise necessary to support remodeling and building projects needed to provide housing and shelter for homeless veterans, families, children and individuals.
in conjunction with national homelessness awareness month, homeaid collected and distributed over 400 blankets and personal care items for homeless individuals, children, and families in our community.
SAEHC
Professional with expertise in this field
11/17/2010
Rating: 5
11/17/2010
HomeAid Sacramento has been an incredible partner to many of us who provide services to homeless families in the region. From the Painting a Better Tomorrow project where HomeAid and its builders come in and give a fresh coat of paint to our facilities, to technical support on an application for capital improvements, they go above and beyond.
HomeAid is an incredible organizationtaht provides housing to the temporarily homeless. We assist insupporting other care providers such as VOA, Children's Receiving Home and others to maintain their existing facilities or expand to provide more beds to those in need.
HomeAid has the support of the Building Indusry Association and is a great partner for care providers in building facilities and helping keep existing facilities in the best shape.
Giving to HomeAid is a great way tosupport many organizations.
