Financial Services Roundtable and Rebuilding Together Part of 91,000 Community Service Projects

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Mar 15, 2010, 02:46 ET

WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Financial Services Roundtable, an organization representing 100 of the largest integrated financial services companies, has released their Community Service 2009 (CS09) report findings, which produced a total of 91,000 community service projects. Rebuilding Together, the nation's leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, is one of The Financial Services Roundtable's charity partners, whose work across the nation impacting homeowners was included in the 2009 report.

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Community Service 2009 includes participating Roundtable partner companies who engage in year-long volunteer service projects to improve the communities in which they live and work. Additionally, Community Service by The Financial Services Roundtable allows members to strengthen partnerships with their nonprofit partners, such as Rebuilding Together, in order to work on projects that truly deliver impact to their communities. The service initiative ran from January 2009 to December 2009 and helped over 9 million Americans.

"Rebuilding Together is proud to be a chosen nonprofit partner of The Financial Services Roundtable and their Community Service 2009 initiative," said Gary Officer, President and CEO of Rebuilding Together. "They represent so many financial organizations who want to help their local communities and we have the capacity to do so. We hope to work with them in the future to help even more Americans nationwide."

"Public service is both our responsibility and an integral part of our companies' business models," said Steve Bartlett, President and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable. "As evidenced by this tremendous year, we work hard to serve the communities in which we live and work."

1,700 of the Community Service 2009 projects that The Financial Services Roundtable reported were home rebuilds and remodeling projects for homeowners in need, and there were 40,322 miscellaneous projects which included energy efficient upgrades and veteran's support. These types of projects are ones that mirror Rebuilding Together's mission in communities, and Rebuilding Together was honored to be a nonprofit partner during 2009, allowing them to complete housing projects across the nation.

155 Members of Congress attended events or were on the CS09 Honorary Congressional Host committee. Some of The Financial Services Roundtable's National Sponsors include: Allstate Corporation, Bank of America Corporation, State Farm Insurance Companies, and Wells Fargo & Company. Rebuilding Together is one of the nonprofit partners of Financial Services Roundtable, which also includes: Habitat For Humanity, March of Dimes, and NeighborWorks.

For more information on The Financial Services Roundtable's Community Service 2009 report, and a full listing of their partners in this endeavor, visit their website: http://www.fsround.org/.

ABOUT REBUILDING TOGETHER

Rebuilding Together is the nation's leading nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods by providing critical home repair and modification services to those in need at no cost to homeowners. With the help of everyday citizen volunteers, skilled trades people, the support of local business and major corporate partners, Rebuilding Together affiliates in America's largest cities and smallest towns make life considerably better for thousands of low-income homeowners and the communities in which they live by completing 10,000 projects per year. In addition to its core home repair work, Rebuilding Together also rehabilitates community centers and conducts home modification and repair programs that focus on aging in place. Rebuilding Together has programs dedicated to aging in place, energy efficiency, veteran's housing, and disaster recovery and reconstruction.

For more information, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.

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