Community Spotlight: Let’s Rebuild Community

Let’s Rebuild Community is a local non-profit organization formed to help seniors, veterans, and persons with disabilities who have difficulty with painting their own homes or keeping up with landscaping. The goal of Let’s Rebuild Community is to help people maintain their most important asset - their homes. After this year’s application process, four homes were selected in the Calumet-Laurium area to kick off the program this summer.

Image of one home before start of work.

Image of another community member’s home before start of work.

Saturday July 29, 2023 was the kick-off day to get started on all four homes. Two require a complete paint job (outside) and the other two have more minor issues. Fourteen volunteers showed up for kick-off!

Image of volunteers posing by a Let’s Rebuild Community sign and showing work updates on a community home during the July 29, 2023 work day.

Call for Volunteers

Volunteers are still needed for this project! Volunteer teams will paint the exterior of the selected homes this summer. Volunteers will also do landscaping touch-ups as time permits during the work days. Any significant safety concerns identified outside of the house will also be addressed.

The next work date is August 12, 2023 starting at 10 AM. More details around the event can be found here.

  • All are welcome!

  • Meet at: Faith Lutheran Church on Depot Street in Calumet, MI

  • 10 AM to 4:30 PM (with a break for lunch around 1:30PM)

  • All volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch will be provided

  • In case of inclement weather, a rain date has been selected for August work: August 19, 2023, 10AM to 4:30PM


Please contact Bill Binroth at (906) 370-9965 or email at bbinroth@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering or with any questions.

 

acknowledgements

This program is made possible through the work of volunteers as well as funding for materials and professional services from local community organizations which include:

  • ACE Hardware of Calumet

  • CLK Council of Churches

  • Copper Shores Community Health Foundation

  • Herman Gundlach Fund held at the Keweenaw Area Community Foundation

  • Keweenaw Area Community Foundation

  • McGann Building Supply

  • Sherwin Williams Paint Store

  • Thrivent Lutheran Foundation

Let’s Rebuild Community is excited to offer these services and looks forward to continuing this important work in our community in the future. Let’s Rebuild Community is a DBA of the registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Let’s Eat Community Meals, based in Chassell, MI.

Please contact Bill Binroth at (906) 370-9965 or email at bbinroth@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering or with any questions.


Keweenaw Community Foundation