HOUSTON, Texas — Today the Astros Foundation announced a $300,000 grant to SBP to support the organization’s ongoing Hurricane Harvey recovery work. Since 2017, SBP – a national disaster recovery and resilience nonprofit founded in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina – has been rebuilding homes in Houston for families impacted by Harvey and the storms that have followed. In August, SBP commemorated five years of recovery work, bringing home over 380 families since 2017. Many families today, however, are still displaced or living in damaged homes, waiting to recover. The recent grant from the Astros Foundation will help more families rebuild their homes and lives, just in time for the holiday.
The Astros Foundation has been committed to Houston’s recovery since the storm devastated the city in August 2017. “One of the pillars of the Astros Foundation is to support the fight against homelessness,” said **Paula Harris, Executive Director of the Astros Foundation and Senior Vice President of Community Affairs.**“The work SBP continues to do to support families still displaced by Harvey is impactful and still needed across our city. We are happy to continue this partnership to provide quality housing options for some of Houston’s most vulnerable populations.”
This grant is the second the Astros Foundation has granted to SBP for Harvey recovery work. In 2019, the Foundation awarded $270K to SBP, which, paired with additional philanthropic investments, helped to rebuild 16 homes and preserve $800K of home equity for the homeowners. This recent grant will be tied to helping at least 15 more families get back into a safe and secure home.
“We are grateful to the Astros Foundation for its continued support of helping Houston families rebuild their homes and lives after Hurricane Harvey,” said Zack Rosenburg, CEO of SBP. “The Astros enduring support of SBP’s mission is helping families know that they matter, and that they will finally be able to spend the holidays at home once again.”
ABOUT SBPSBP, a social impact organization focused on disaster resilience and recovery, solves the challenges facing at-risk communities by bringing the rigor of business and innovation to drive social impact, create resilient communities, and streamline recovery. To shrink the time between disaster and recovery, SBP takes a holistic approach—reducing risk, increasing resilience, and improving the recovery process—to effect transformational change in the disaster recovery system and restore opportunity and security for people and communities.
Since its founding in 2006 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 3,000 families with the help of 150,000 volunteers in 14 communities across the U.S. and in the Bahamas.
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ABOUT THE ASTROS FOUNDATION:
The Astros Foundation, the official 501(c)(3) team charity of the Houston Astros, seeks to harness the passion of baseball fans to support youth baseball and softball programs, the recognition and honor of our nation’s military, childhood cancer awareness, domestic violence awareness and efforts to reduce homelessness. Our cornerstone initiatives include the Community Leaders program, the Astros Youth Academy and the Astros RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) Program. For more information on the Astros Foundation, please visit www.astros.com/foundation.
