CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A new, growing partnership between CNA’s philanthropic arm, its Commercial Affiliation Marketing (CAM) partners in the Construction segment, and Rebuilding Together will fund a revitalization project in the southeast region of the country. The CNA Foundation’s Board of Directors recently awarded Rebuilding Together with a $250,000 grant for the project tentatively scheduled for the fall in CNA’s largest Construction branch territory.

The CNA Foundation recently awarded Rebuilding Together with a $250,000 grant. Rhonda Lohmar (pictured, right), underwriting consulting director, CNA, presented the check to Bill Good (pictured left), executive vice president, National Roofing Contractors Association and national chairman of Rebuilding Together. (Photo: Business Wire)

Since 2004, the CNA Foundation has partnered with Rebuilding Together to help improve the homes and community centers of veterans, elderly, disabled and low-income residents in Chicago’s most challenged neighborhoods. This grant – along with the elbow grease of volunteers from CNA’s Construction CAMs including, thus far, the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA), the Land Improvement Contractors of America (LICA), and the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) – will spread the goodwill from the Midwest to a soon-to-be-confirmed community in the Southeast.

During the 2011 International Roofing Expo held recently in Las Vegas, Rhonda Lohmar (pictured, right), underwriting consulting director, CNA, presented the check to Bill Good (pictured left), executive vice president, NRCA. Good also serves as the national chairman of Rebuilding Together.

Rebuilding Together is the nation's leading nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods by providing extensive rehabilitation and modification services to those in need at no cost to those served. With the help of everyday citizen volunteers, skilled trades people, the support of local business and major corporate partners, Rebuilding Together affiliates in America’s largest cities and smallest towns make life considerably better for thousands of low-income homeowners and the communities in which they live by completing 10,000 projects per year. Rebuilding Together has programs dedicated to energy efficiency, veteran’s housing, aging in place and gulf coast reconstruction. For more information, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.

The CNA Foundation is the nonprofit, private charitable giving entity of CNA. Through its matching gifts program and community involvement grants, the CNA Foundation provides vital funding to thousands of charities where CNA does business and where CNA employees live and work.

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