Owens Corning to Support Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. Program to Build Custom Smart Homes for Wounded Veterans

TOLEDO, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Owens Corning will donate insulation and roofing products for 10 homes
to be built by the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. program (Restoring
Independence Supporting Empowerment). The program provides fully
customized, specially adapted smart homes to ease the everyday burdens
of severely wounded veterans and their families and caregivers.

Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. program was established to provide
these veterans and their families with the resources to overcome their
new life challenges. The Gary Sinise Foundation is committed to helping
wounded heroes increase their mobility and reclaim their self-reliance
by designing and building custom homes from the ground up.

“Helping to provide safe and efficient housing is one of the primary
goals of the company’s charitable giving,” said Don Rettig, community
relations director, Owens Corning, and president, Owens Corning
Foundation. “This partnership marries that goal with directly helping
several American heroes. We are privileged to be a part of it.”

“We are honored that Owens Corning has chosen to support our R.I.S.E.
program and the brave, resilient American heroes we help,” said Gary
Sinise Foundation Executive Director Judith Otter. “Gary Sinise
Foundation’s specially adapted smart homes are so much more than just
conventional houses, and with the extra benefit of being built with the
highest quality materials, they really can become our veterans’ forever
homes.”

Owens Corning will invite its network of independent insulation and
roofing contractors to participate in building the 10 homes, a unique
opportunity for them to give back in their local communities as well.

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) develops, manufactures, and markets insulation,
roofing, and fiberglass composites. Global in scope and human in scale,
the company’s market-leading businesses use their deep expertise in
materials, manufacturing, and building science to develop products and
systems that save energy and improve comfort in commercial and
residential buildings. Through its glass reinforcements business, the
company makes thousands of products lighter, stronger, and more durable.
Ultimately, Owens Corning people and products make the world a better
place. Based in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning posted 2016 sales of $5.7
billion and employs 17,000 people in 33 countries. It has been a Fortune
500® company for 63 consecutive years. For more information, please
visit www.owenscorning.com.

About Gary Sinise Foundation

Gary Sinise Foundation honors America’s defenders, veterans, first
responders, their families and those in need. Through its R.I.S.E.
(Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment) program, specially
adapted smart homes are being constructed for severely wounded veterans
nationwide. Each one-of-a-kind home is customized to ease the everyday
burdens of a wounded hero, their family and caregivers. Other programs
include Relief & Resiliency Outreach, Invincible Spirit Festivals, the
Lt. Dan Band, Arts & Entertainment Outreach, Serving Heroes, and First
Responders Outreach. Its latest program, Soaring Valor, is sending WWII
veterans to The National WWII Museum and documenting their first-hand
accounts of the war. Learn more at www.garysinisefoundation.org/programs/rise.

Contacts

Owens Corning
Chuck Hartlage, 419-248-5395
[email protected]
or
Polaris
PR for Gary Sinise Foundation
Staci Wolfe
[email protected]