Caught Doing Good
Hospital Roof Garden Improves Patient Care
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Hospital installs eight raised garden beds on roof as part of initiative to provide food to patients and relieve resident stress. Resident Deanna Huffman starts her typical afternoon shift for the Allegheny General Hospital sweeping around the garden beds and pruning the tomatoes. It ...
GAF and Good360 Partner to Strengthen Storm Response in the Southeast
New community redistribution center in Mobile, Alabama to source highly needed goods following disasters. GAF, North America's largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer, and Good360, the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, have expanded their partnership to establish a new community redistribution center to provide disaster relief support throughout the ...
96-year-old Veteran Receives Surprise Free Roof
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Keith Gauvin Roofing finds the perfect candidate for their first “on the house” roof giveaway. Keith Gauvin, of Keith Gauvin Roofing, had been thinking for some time now that he wanted to do a free roof giveaway when he met Geroge Evans. The ...
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 ...
