Community Rebuilders

Community Rebuilders

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
https://communityrebuilders.org/

Company Information

We have been focused on ensuring access to affordable housing in our community for over 25 years. Our start began in the private rental market as an effort to help persons with a housing crisis secure a place to call home. We believe housing is essential to the health and well-being of our community. We support well-being, we make sure that everyone can reach their potential and fully contribute to our community; and we start by ensuring everyone has a safe place to call home. We consistently work to expand our effort to ensure that all members of our community reach their full potential.

We are housing experts, focused on building a community where homelessness is rare, brief and one time. We recognize that our community is an oasis of incredible people and resources! We focus on solutions! We are driven to continually learn, understand and better meet the needs of our community. We learn from our community, research, data and evidenced based practices. We innovate and change to better achieve our mission! We value collaboration with our consumers and the community at large!

Only when working together can we ensure the brightest future for our community. We all need varying supports at different points in our lives. I invite you to learn about all of our efforts to make our community stronger and help every community member reach their full potential.

How many internships are you providing to the program?: 1

Company History

History, Growth and Expertise
Founded in January 1993, Community Rebuilders has been working diligently to place homeless families and individuals in housing for over 25 years. The organization began with fair market rental units located in the southeast Grand Rapids area with a goal of improving and keeping affordable housing available to persons living in the inner city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Always focused on housing as the solution to homelessness, Community Rebuilders’ founder developed one of the first scattered site permanent supportive housing programs in the county in 1995. This program became a HUD Best Practice Award recipient and served as a model for communities across the county. This highly successful program is still operated in an expanded way today. Individuals and families who are homeless and suffer from severe and persistent mental and physical health conditions achieve housing stability and improved health outcomes as a result of this program.

Community Rebuilders’ mission, to “Rebuild hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.” is achieved today through a broad range of programs and services. Organizational success is built on a firm philosophical foundation that relies on the resiliency and strengths of the individuals served and our community. The organization adopted a housing first, strengths-based model of service delivery in 2006. The organization created a Housing Resource Specialist model that has been duplicated across the state and in locations across the country.

Transitional housing programs have been replaced by more cost-effective rapid rehousing programs, emergency shelter services have been replaced by temporary accommodations that shorten the length of time individuals and families remain homeless and increase exits to permanent housing. A coordinated entry system is utilized to ensure the most vulnerable homeless households are served first.

The implementation and outcomes achieved evidence the organization’s commitment to partnering with consumers, being evidenced informed and focusing on outcomes and maximum impact for service recipients and the community at large. Community Rebuilders provides housing and services each year that result in over 1,000 individuals and families moving from homelessness to stable housing. We believe everyone deserves a safe place to call home. Our programs serve homeless youth, individuals, families, chronically homeless households, and Veterans. We focus on ending homelessness not managing it. We gain wisdom from the experience of the consumers we serve, the community at large, promising and evidenced-based practices, and out of the box ideas that may seem nontraditional but just might work. We are a flexible and nimble organization with diverse partnerships and ideas. We believe and have demonstrated that with collaboration and commitment to our core values we can make homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring.
Placements require a financial obligation of $1,600 for each youth under 18 years old, and $2,000 for each intern 18 or older. Please indicate if you are a nonprofit organization and need wage assistance.: Yes
What transportation options for getting to and from work are available to you?: By Public Transport (Bus, Wheels to Work, or Bike/ Walk), By Car, N/A - Virtual Work Only
Public Transportation Supports: Proximity to bus line and details of which line/stop. Wheels to Work program participation and cost.: Currently our office location at 1120 Monroe just off of the bus line is closed. This internship could potentially be remote or if the office is open there would be office space available. It's unknown though at this time.
Is your organization a Minority Business Enterprise?: No
Diversity Equity, & Inclusion Commitment: Share your organizations commitment to DEI, including local or national diversity commitments/pledges, links to public content outlining your strategy, and current representation in leadership and the general workforce.: Community Rebuilders team members include many persons with lived experience and a diverse team. It is an ongoing and never ending process to promote diversity and inclusion. The organization sets clear goals annually. Regular review and adjustment of recruitment and hiring practices, organizational training and the addition of a diversity and inclusion position in the organization contributes to and ensures we have the necessary focus and support to forward our objectives. We are very proud of the diversity of our management and leadership team as the executive level is often an area where organizations struggle to demonstrate in leadership. We continue to strive to recruit and secure greater diversity on our Board of Directors. Our current Board of Directors includes 4 males and 3 females of which 7 are white and 1 is Black/African American. Our current staff roster includes 36 females and 20 males. Of those 13 are Black/African American, 37 White, 2 Asian, 2 multi-racial, 1 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1 is Hispanic.

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