| Rock2Rebuild™
is very proud to work with top accredited charitable organizations on meaningful
and far-reaching causes locally and beyond. Learn more about some of our
charitable partners and how we've helped below. |
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| Habitat's
"Operation Home Delivery" program is providing long-term housing
solutions for families displaced by Katrina. Chaired by Harry Connick, Jr.,
a native of New Orleans, Operation Home Delivery aims to pre-build house
frames with donated materials, by shipping them to where they can be quickly
assembled to meet the housing needs of those affected by the hurricanes.
75% of
the $14,181.61raised
by Rock2Rebuild’s Capital Area Concert for Relief on Oct 15, 2005
at the Palace Theatre In Albany, NY, will
go to Habitat’s “Operation Home Delivery” program.
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keeping with Rock2Rebuild's ongoing commitment to the Capital District,
the remaining 25% of the $14,181.61 raised by the R2R Katrina Relief concert
will help those living in need locally, through Capital District Habitat
for Humanity. Founded in 1988, Capital District Habitat for Humanity has
actively partnered with over 45 sponsors, county and city governments, &
numerous volunteers and donors to rehabilitate or build 38 new homes in
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| Ronald
McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region, Inc. (RMHC) in Albany, NY
provides comfort, support and respite for families of seriously ill children
in a compassionate and home-like environment through the operation of the
Ronald McDonald House, and the Ronald McDonald House Family Room in the
Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center; and awards grants to programs
in the community that enhance the lives of children.
Beginning in September, Rock2Rebuild’s
Rock Lite acoustic series will invite some of the area’s best musicians
to share their talent, knowledge and stories with seriously ill children
and their families at the RMHC Family Room in the Children's Hospital
at Albany Medical Center on a weekly basis.
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Save the Children's global
resources are being marshaled to carry out a major regional response focusing
on the three worst -affected countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India,
with smaller scale responses in other affected countries.
Save the Children’s Commitment
to affected children and families includes 1.) Immediate Life-Saving (first
6 months): To ensure immediate lifesaving relief and survival of children
and families who have been injured, displaced, put at-risk or otherwise
made vulnerable during the emergency period; 2.) Medium Term Relief and
Reconstruction (2 years): To ensure children survive and recover from
the disaster, help families rebuild their livelihoods as well as the destroyed
and damaged infrastructure, and assist communities to start rebuilding
and strengthening their social systems; 3.) Long Term Recovery (5 years):
To ensure children survive and thrive and help families and communities
recover from the effects of this environmental disaster.
This long-term work will prove
to be the largest ever post-disaster relief and recovery effort undertaken
by Save the Children in its more than 70-year history. We also will continue
to maintain our global effort to reach out to children in the United States
and in more than 40 developing countries who are ensnared in persistent
and acute challenges such as poverty, disease and political turmoil.
Rock2Rebuild’s Capital
District Benefit for Tsunami Relief at the Palace Theatre In Albany raised
$13,283.56 for Save The Children’s tsunami relief efforts.
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Habitat for Humanity's Disaster
Response Office works to rebuild the future for victims of war and natural
disasters worldwide. Habitat's Disaster Response empowers and works with
families in building recovery housing, with the goal of putting communities
back on their feet and helping them stay there.
Habitat has already begun the
process of rebuilding in tsunami-devastated regions of Indonesia, India,
Sri Lanka and Thailand, with plans to provide housing for as many as 25,000
families affected by the December 2004 disaster. Habitat’s goal
is to help families move out of camps into transitional accommodations
as a first step to permanent housing. Due to overcrowding, hunger, disease
and crime in many camps, authorities are encouraging families to return
to their communities to start rebuilding their shattered lives. Habitat
officials estimate that for as little as US$200 per displaced person,
they can move a family of five out of a camp and into permanent housing.
Rock2Rebuild’s Capital
District Benefit for Tsunami Relief at the Palace Theatre In Albany raised
$13,283.56 for Habitat For Humanity’s tsunami relief efforts.
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