Part of the overwhelming charitable response to the September 11 attacks came from organized efforts by remodeling industry groups. The National Association of the Remodeling Industry created the NARI Relief Effort, which, in addition to raising thousands of dollars for victim relief funds from its 52 chapters, organized members near New York to help more directly by volunteering their products and services at Ground Zero. "Remodeling contractors are doers," says NARI member Doug Dervin of Double D Contractors in West Hempstead, N.Y., who helped organize a volunteer effort to complete two on-site projects in the Bronx and Staten Island for the New York Police Department. More
