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Address
The Rebuilding Alliance
235 Alma Street
Palo Alto,
CA
94301
United States
(650) 325-4663
http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org
Mission
A nonprofit organization, rebuilds homes & communities in regions of war & occupation. We advocate for policies towards these regions based on human rights & international law. With mutual commitment to justice, we create alliances among our supporters, partners, & those who suffer injustice & violence, yet resist through rebuilding. Our projects are symbols of hope that offer people around the world immediate ways to make peace, starting with the tangible support of a family's right to a home.
Programs
On May 24, 2007, we completed the building of a new home for the Gaza family whom Rachel Corrie sought to protect. In Gaza, their family and friends pitched in to make the home beautiful. Our “Contact Congress Teleconferences” reached ten elected leaders to advocate to save specific homes and communities from demolition and to intervene to help Americans get visa permission to continue to live with their families in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Personnel Overview
Zohar Shapira - Co-founder of Combatants for Peace
Zohar, now a teacher in a Waldorf school in Israel, served for 15 years in the elite unit "Sayert Matkal", as a combatant and commander. After the bloody spring of 2002, when hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians were killed in mutual violence, he refused to serve in the occupied territories. Zohar is married with one child.
Bassam Aramin - Co-founder of Combatants for Peace
At the age of 17 he was sentenced to 7 years in Israeli prison for belonging to the then-outlawed Fatah movement and for weapons possession. Beaten by soldiers in prison, he decided that he would not become a prisoner of hatred. He and his wife had six children, five remain.
Donna Baranski-Walker - executive director of the Rebuilding Alliance
Engineering graduate from MIT who founded the Rebuilding Alliance in 2003 to help rebuild homes and communities in conflict zones and make them safe.
Personnel Statistics
Donna Baranski-Walker, Executive Director
Founded in 2003
Employees: 2
Volunteers: 120
Financial Statistics
Budget (2006): 73,145
Budget (2005): 120,000
Maximum Budget: 322,291
Overhead: 17%
Other funding sources: speaking events, grants from foundations, religious groups, Rotary Clubs.
Religious Affiliation: none
