Awards & Achievements
Employment Achievement Award
June 8, 2006
The Rebuilding Alliance received the Employer of the Year Award by the Mayor's Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities. Read more about the awards ceremony on our blog and look at the pictures posted there as well.
“...The Rebuilding Alliance is an organization that sees individuals for the gifts they can bring and looks beyond any possible disability.”
— Patrick Regan, Vice President of Community Relations, CVE, Inc.
Member – Mayors Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities
“...The Rebuilding Alliance, rebuilds homes in conflict zones and works towards peace in troubled areas. They have made it possible for persons with disabilities to join them in their noble efforts.”
— Marc Passen
2004-05 Penny Harvest Grantee
February 2006
Common Cents New York granted a certificate of recognition to The Rebuilding Alliance to honor our work.
Spirit of Detroit AwardJune 21, 2005
Presented to parents of Rachel Corrie and the Nasrallah Family who lived in the Gaza Home she died protecting.
Craig and Cindy Corrie and Khaled and Samah Nasrallah, along with Rebuilding Alliance Executive Director Donna Baranski-Walker, Board Chair Alan Kaufman, and volunteer Hana Ajlouni received the Highest Honor Award by Council.
The group appeared before Detroit's City Council on Tuesday,
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/legislative/det_main_frame.htm
Finalist in the Global Giving Competition
March 3, 2005
The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza was a finalist in the 2005 GlobalGiving.com International Marketplace Competition, selected from a field of 115 projects !! Read more about it on the globalgiving 2005 finalists page at http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/gpf
Lewis Mumford AwardAwarded the 2003 Lewis Mumford Award for Development by the Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility for the compassionate and brave work in strife-torn Palestine, developing positive relations between Palestinians and Israelis through a hands-with-hands process of rebuilding homes together.
http://www.adpsr.org/
Rebuilding Alliance ED joined a panel discussion for a TV show called “Collective Punishment”, part of “A Question of Law” series produced by the Massachusetts School of Law (The School website is www.mslaw.edu, then go to Publications and TV); That show won the following awards:
- Davey Award, 2005 – Silver http://www.daveyawards.com
- MarCom Award, 2005 – Gold http://www.marcomawards.com
- Telly Award, 2004 http://www.tellyawards.com
