my name is greg hanson on with rebuilding together greater burlington were a nonprofit volunteer organization serving chittenden county we do repairs and renovations for low income vermonters to keep them safe warm and independent in their own homes the goal is to do the work for homeowners that need our help so we can keep them in their homes and build communities we were rely on volunteers to do the labor to do the work on a big project day several times during the year rebuilding together greater burlington is part of the national organization rebuilding together that's based out of washington d c we do our work throughout most of the summer months we last year helped about six homeowners in chittenden county we also do serve  the underhill jericho richmond area for all of our recipients are low income from honors the average income of our households last year was about a little over twelve thousand dollars a year our goal is to keep people in their homes build communities and keep elderly folks disabled veterans will help anybody we can one of the neat things about our organization is the project is the way everything comes together a typical project they will be a saturday will send emails out to the volunteers leading up to it everyone shows up at seven thirty eight o'clock in we go through a safety briefing and then divvy up the work and everyone gets at it it's pretty impressive amount of organized chaos at first you can have thirty or forty people there to work on a home that fantastic experience that and everyone really finds their role pretty quickly we can get a lot of work done will replace windows will redo our roof will do some painting and we rely on skilled and unskilled labor both so if you don't have any real good technical abilities but if you can hold a rake we can still use people's help with that we are an all volunteer organization we're always searching for applicants to do the work for we rely on volunteer labor to donated labor from different construction companies and we have just a fantastic pool of workers that come out on project day and help us out we're an all volunteer board as well no one's on our paid staff so really every dollar that that we receive probably ninety nine percent so that makes it back into project day rebuilding together a greater burlington is the volunteer arm of the home builders association and we also partner with other organizations like rotary clubs keller williams sends out a big group of people every year to help us on project day as well so we have a lot of individual people that help us as well as volunteer organizations and we're always looking for funding sources to keep our programs going wells fargo foundation has been a really good supporter of organization and provided a lot of funding for a lot of projects over the last several years we've been able because of wells fargo to keep elderly widows in their homes close up drafty windows and sealed up their roofs and that we're really thankful for their contributions if you'd like more information about rebuilding together greater burlington visit our website at rebuilding together burlington dot org if you need help with your home need some renovations or repairs also that same website will have an application that you can fill out the way the process works is you'll submit an application will meet as a team and  review the applications and see who qualifies based on income and need based on that then we usually get in touch with the applicants set up a meeting go visit their house walk through see what kind of work needs to be done and then take it from there  we have to match up what our abilities are we only have a one day project day so if we can get what needs to be done in a day that sure helps our next project days on may fourth it has to be green day as well but it's a great way to celebrate green up day is to help somebody repair their house if you've ever helped us on one of our projects before we sure appreciate your support and thank you very much and if you haven't helped us before we hope to see you on project they so