RTEBN Named Finalist for EBEDA Innovation Award

Rebuilding Together East Bay Network has been named a finalist for the 2025 East Bay Economic Development Alliance Innovation Award in the Community Impact category. The recognition highlights their Big Skills Program, which trains construction apprentices and high school students by building fully-equipped, all-electric ADUs that are donated or sold affordably to families facing displacement. The innovative program creates pathways to trade careers while simultaneously addressing housing needs in the East Bay, with award winners to be announced on March 27, 2025, in Oakland.

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 Building a Just Transition: Jobs and Climate Action

Rebuilding Together East Bay Network partners with Yellowjacket Heating & Cooling on innovative heat pump installations for low-income homes. The collaboration creates high-road job opportunities while advancing California's building decarbonization goals. Their model includes training programs at North Bay high schools where students build tiny all-electric houses for low-income homeowners.

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Patch, Oct 8th 2024

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San Rafael High Schoolers Help Build Tiny Homes

Local students joined volunteers this month to build modular tiny homes, supporting affordable housing efforts in Marin County.

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Coalition of Home Repair, Sept. 16th, 2024

Member News: Wells Fargo Volunteer Day Targets Impact at Scale with Student-Built Modular ADUs

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