Caught Doing Good
JM Joins Insulate America to Give Kids Spaces to Just Be Kids
By Johns Manville. JM provides six clubhouses to act as safe and fun spaces for sick and abused children. This past June, Johns Manville (JM) sponsored Insulate America as they built six clubhouses for children in the Monterey County area. The children receiving the clubhouses are survivors of diseases ...
Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity Constructs Home for Couple That Has Spent Seven Years Apart
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. GAF partners with Habitat for Humanity to provide roof materials and labor to build the first habitat home in Batavia, Illinois. Janice and George Owino both grew up in Kenya. Janice moved to the United States and studied chemistry, after four years apart, ...
Peace and Stability Gifted to U.S. Army Veteran
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Monya Collins and her family excitedly envision their new life as they watch their home form before their eyes. Thanks to the third annual Veteran Build put on by Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity, Monya Collins and her three children are getting a new ...
Antis Roofing and IB Roof Systems Team Up To Do Some Good
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. When a new roof was urgently needed for the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach, two companies came to the rescue. To start, the Club’s administration reached out to longtime community partner Charles Antis. Charles is the CEO and founder of Antis ...
Make-A-Wish® Receives $225,000 Donation from RCASF to Grant Wishes to Children with Critical Illnesses
Annual fishing tournament gains support from the roofing industry. The roofing community is making a splash in South Florida with the largest non-corporate donation to The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida as well as a substantial donation to the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). The tournament raised $225,000 to grant 45 ...
U.S. Army Veteran in South Carolina Receives New Roof
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Roofing contractor from family of veterans replaces roof with Owens Corning Deployment Project to thank U.S. Army veteran. “There are a lot of veterans in my family, my father was a Vietnam Veteran, my great grandmother was in the Women’s Corp, several of my ...
Roofing Company Provides Office Space for Year-Round Blood Drives
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Antis Roofing and Waterproofing hosts blood drives and saves lives. The pandemic has put stress on nearly everything, and of the list of pressing shortages caused by the pandemic is blood supply. Across America, up to 19,000 blood drives have been cancelled due to ...
Why Are You Here? – Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times
By Piers Dormeyer, President – Construction & Utilities. “Why are you here?” As the group of 15 or so roofing industry vets circle up to start the day, Cori Vernam poses this question. Cori is a senior marketing manager at Antis Roofing who coordinated this event in Mountain Center, California. ...
New Home Built in a Week for Growing Family
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Retired U.S. Air Force veteran in Madison, Kentucky received new home from the Roof Deployment Project just in time to bring his newborn home. Jermonte Rushing had quite the week when he learned the Roof Deployment Project was going to build him a house ...
Vietnam Veteran Receives New Roof
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Veteran in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina no longer worries about a leaky roof. Navy veteran Mark Barker served from 1969 to 1973, a tenure that included multiple tours in Vietnam on land and sea. After his service, he worked with a pest control company, ...
