A busy team of women were in constant motion in front of Project Homeless Connect in Hillsboro, unloading plywood, gathering up falling shingles, and generally getting their hands dirty. These members of the local chapter of National Women in Roofing gave their time this summer to help with HBF’s remodel of the day shelter serving […]
Home Building Foundation is celebrating an amazing five years with the work anniversary of our Project Manager, Chris McDowell. McDowell adds a personal touch to our HomeAid America collaborative model of asking the residential building community to build or remodel shelter for providers serving people who are homeless. HBF Builder Captain Nathan Young praises him […]
HBF typically relies on the home building industry to provide their expertise to our shelter building projects. But, we also welcome weekend warriors who’d like to make a difference. Fireside Home Solutions, the Oregonian, and Washington Federal Bank recruited 30 volunteers to give up their Saturday March 4th to help with Painting for a Better […]
More than a hundred residents, shelter staff, donors and government officials gathered to celebrate the opening of the new HomePlate Drop-in Center in downtown Beaverton last week. Local shelter provider HomePlate Youth Services teamed up with Home Builders Foundation and Walsh Construction to transform an abandoned church property into a trauma-informed campus that will serve […]
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 […]
Thanks so much RE/MAX Equity Group Foundation for the generous grant to HBF’s Care Kit outreach program. We are proud to be one of three organizations chosen for a grant this winter from among other Portland and SW Washington nonprofits. HBF will use the donation to purchase materials for Care Kits. These small plastic bags […]
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 […]
Home Builders Foundation’s new prototype for homeless shelters is up and running at Portland’s BIPOC Village. The “MOD” was trucked into place at the NE Portland site in late January. HBF’s donated the building to be used for case managers helping formerly houseless people who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. HBF commissioned the […]
Sawdust blows into the air as carpenters cut plywood, creating an office out of what could have been trash. Architect Julia Mollner is on hand while she works with Portland nonprofits such as HBF to create new structures out of “mock-ups”. These are two sided structures developers build to test out proposed construction details such […]