HBF honors people who go above an beyond to help our organization as Foundation Heros. Our latest Hero is Melanie Tashima Duncan, Fireside Home Solutions. In spite of her busy life, she is always available to help our programs. Tell us about yourself: I am the Program Manager at Fireside Home Solutions, primarily supporting the […]
Our Foundation Hero series is a way for us to thank the volunteers who help our work, and to get to know them better. This month we focus on Nathan Young. Company & Title: MODS PDX INC President Tell us about yourself: I started in construction in 1991, and founded Nathan D. Young Construction, Inc. […]
Home Builders Foundation is lucky to have loyal trade contractors who will answer our call whenever we need help. Construction clean up and recycling company Clean it Up Mark! is one of them. Owner Kelly Cowan explains “I came to work for Mark McGregor to learn the business and eventually purchased it from him.” The […]
On a pleasant mid-September day, close to forty Mountainwood Homes staff members gathered at the property of Project Homeless Connect’s Day Center in Hillsboro for an all-day renovation blitz. This was not their first foray in helping out at a Home Builders Foundation project site. This year the team tackled a number of issues. A […]
This spring, the Home Builders Foundation Board of Directors approved two new shelter projects in the outskirts of the Portland metro region. The first project, a transitional overnight shelter called Newberg Harvest House, will serve as the featured charity project for this year’s NW Natural Street of Dreams in Yamhill County. The second project is […]
At the end of a multi-year project to add 13 sleeping pods to the Clackamas Veterans Village, Home Builders Foundation completed one final capstone project with a small, locally-owned design-build company. With donated time and physical labor from TaylorSmith Sustainable Construction, in addition to donated lumber and roofing materials from Builders FirstSource, HBF planned and […]
In February 2015, disaster struck the Allen Temple CME Church when a power surge started two separate electrical fires in the walls of the historic 110-year-old sanctuary. When Pastor Haynes got word of the fire on a Saturday evening, he was finishing up his Sunday sermon. To Reverend Dr. Leroy Haynes Jr., who served an […]
St. John’s Village residents have safe new homes because of the hard work of Home Builder’s Foundation and our shelter partners. On May 21, the community joined together to thank HBF, Do Good Multnomah, the City of Portland, Multnomah County and many local partners which worked together to complete the project. The sleeping pods at […]
Home Builders Foundation was able to relocate nine sleeping pods for homeless veterans in Clackamas over the holidays, and contributed $20,000 to assist with the move. Many private, local companies and volunteers helped make the project a great success. Kabuki Strength, a company owned by HBF Past President Rudy Kadlub announced before Christmas they would […]
In December of 2019, HBF and seasoned shelter provider, Portland Homeless Family Solutions celebrated the opening of shelter to house twenty-six families in what is now called the Lents Family Village. Around $750,000 of in-kind donations were provided to make the $2.5 million dollar project a reality. Using “trauma-informed” design, lead designer Jessica Helgerson Interior […]