Publications & Blog
Adair and Marsh McLennan Volunteers Join Forces to Finalize an HBF Shelter Project
More than six months after closing out its project at Project Homeless Connect in Hillsboro, HBF assembled a team of volunteers to paint the original teardrop siding of the organization’s Access Center that had been covered with asbestos since the 1950’s.
HomeAid Anniversary
Home Building Foundation is celebrating a milestone this summer, marking 35 years of HomeAid's mission to end homelessness.
Home Improvements
Keller Williams employees who chose to help HBF with our project at Oleson Woods for their national "Red Day" of service also helped make history.
Doggone Good Project
HBF volunteers battled the spring rain to help the deserving veterans who live at Vancouver’s Kiggins Village. Lennar Portland’s team of 30 employees came with a mission to make the village feel like home for the residents and their loved ones.
Foundation Hero: Erik Brakstad
Home Building Foundation likes to thank some of our outstanding volunteers by declaring them “Foundation Heroes”. We’d like to introduce you to someone who has gone above and beyond to help our projects in the past two years. Erik Brakstad of Brakstad Builders is the Construction Trainer at Tivnu: Building Justice.
Building More Compassion
HBF Executive Director Brenda Ketah attended the groundbreaking ceremony at Tigard's Just Compassion where they are building a new 2 story building to enhance services for people experiencing homelessness.
Residential Builders Nail it!
As Portland’s homelessness crisis made national headlines, local builders were looking for ways to help out. Home Building Foundation (HBF) was one organization that provided an outlet to connect builders to the shelter community by sponsoring volunteer work parties at shelter sites around Portland.
Thanks for the Memories
Each shelter project HBF completes involves hundreds of hours of work, and the generosity of the community. First, our nonprofit partners reach out to see if HBF can help repair, remodel, or build a facility to help people in need.
Opening Doors
Home Building Foundation’s Project Manager Chris McDowell locked up the newly painted red front door of AnyDoor Place, culminating more than a year of remodeling.
HBF Hero: Taylor Wick
We periodically honor members of the community who make a meaningful contribution to our organization. HBF would like to acknowledge Taylor Wick, who is Rick’s Custom Fencing & Decking’s Director of Marketing & Community Outreach.
Ramping Up
HBF and members of the residential building community have been working for more than a year to shore up the aging houses that Project Homeless Connect uses to provide services.
Doing Good!
In the past fiscal year, Do Good successfully housed more than 220 individuals, and our Permanent Supportive Housing programs have a 93% annual retention rate.
Powered by Volunteers
Our friends @scottedwardsarchitecture showed up on an October Saturday morning to build eight sturdy picnic tables. The tables are now in place at @portlandgov Sunderland Safe Park Village.