Giveback Homes 2020 Year in Review
December 30th, 2020
We hope you'll take a moment to acknowledge what you've been a part of and what you've made possible this year: building homes, providing warm meals, clean drinking water and hand-washing stations to our most vulnerable communities, supporting small businesses, and finding the joy through it all. Here's a look at this year's journey...
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January 2020: Concierge Auctions Build Trip to El Salvador
Concierge Auctions traveled to El Salvador as part of the Key For Key™ program, which builds a complete home for a family in need with each home they sell at auction. In February, Concierge Auctions also helped build a home for a family in Austin, TX, where the company is headquartered.
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March + April 2020: Fresh meals and medical supplies to communities in need
Giveback Homes partnered with organizations that are making an immediate impact by providing fresh meals and medical supplies to the most vulnerable communities and frontline healthcare workers. Thanks to World Central Kitchen and Direct Relief.
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June 2020: Families Celebrate Their New Homes in Los Angeles
Giveback Homes Members had the honor of helping build homes in Culver City over the last year and now the families were able to move in and celebrate with a “Welcome Home” parade organized by our friends at Habitat LA. Ten families were celebrated and people from all over the community walked and drove by to celebrate this life-changing milestone.
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Portable Hand-Washing Stations for the Homeless
Thanks to the donations from The Mazzo Group, we partnered with Love Beyond Walls to help distribute portable hand-washing stations to the most high-traffic homeless areas across the U.S.
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July 2020: Healthy Home Kits for Families in Nicaragua and El Salvador
Hundreds of families in Nicaragua and El Salvador received emergency kits that included food supplies, a safe water kit, hygiene and first-aid kits to help keep them safe and healthy.
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August 2020: Giveback Homes Members Took a Hike #forsocialgood
We all needed a little fresh air, so Giveback Homes Members from New York to San Francisco got outside to appreciate nature and help raise awareness for Foster the Earth, an organization that provides outdoor experiences to underserved youth.
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September 2020: Adwerx Donates $15,000 to Giveback Homes
Adwerx Donates to the Giveback Homes General Fund providing thousands of fresh meals to firefighters, evacuees and first responders. The donation also provided hundreds of emergency kits in Central America.
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Giveback Homes Helps Transform Homes with Humble Design Chicago
The same homes that Giveback Homes Members helped build for families in Chicago, would now receive the love of interior design. Thanks to the work of Humble Design Chicago, which serves individuals, families and veterans emerging from homelessness by transforming their empty houses into welcoming homes using donated furniture, household goods, and passionate volunteers.
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October 2020: The Agency Takes the Leap to Fight Homelessness
Twenty-three brave members of The Agency team rappelled down a building, raising over $25,000 for Union rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in Downtown LA that helps men, women, and children escape the streets of Skid Row through food, shelter, education, counseling, and long-term recovery programs. We couldn’t be more proud!
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The Agency Provides Thanksgiving Meals and Safe Shelter to Thousands on Skid Row
The Agency provided 10,000 Thanksgiving meals at the URM’s grab-and-go Thanksgiving celebration on skid row and provided nearly 500 people with shelter and food along with other necessary services provided by the URM.
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The Northrop Group's Fourth Annual Build Day in Denver
The Northrop Group, which included Jessica Northrop, Jayd Wells, Brian Pintar and Cali Forbes, helped put the finishing touches on homes by painting the exterior and the trim. Soon, a single father and his six-year-old daughter will be moving in. You go, Northrop Group!
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December 2020: The O'Byrne Team Provides Clean Water to the Navajo Nation
"It's something that I'm surprised we even have to worry about in 2020 but since we do, we wanted to help make a difference..." - Seth O'Byrne
1/3 of Navajo households do not have running water. Thanks to a donation from The O’Byrne Team, 55 families in the Navajo Nation gain access to clean drinking water.
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And some more good news...
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