Home Building Foundation turned up the heat this summer to celebrate the completion of a multi-year project in HIllsboro.

HBF’s Workforce outreach program took the opportunity to enlighten budding builders this summer. The 2024 NW Natural Street of Dreams provided an incredible opportunity to show the best of the best in home construction.

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.

Home Building Foundation is celebrating a milestone this summer, marking 35 years of HomeAid's mission to end homelessness.

Construction students from Sam Barlow traveled up a winding country road in a school bus, followed by a flatbed truck carrying an assignment they built for HBF.

Home Building Foundation will impact the lives of hundreds of people experiencing homelessness after its 2024 Building Hope Gala and Auction. More than $500,000 was pledged during the annual dinner and auction June 1 at Tumwater Vineyards in West Linn.

The National Home Builders Association awarded Home Building Association and Home Building Foundation of Greater Portland a 2023 Association Excellence Award for “Best Workforce Development Plan Implemented”.

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.

The graduates were also offered a special “Meet and Greet” with employers in the offices of Green Hammer Design Build. Much like “speed dating”, the trainees cycled through tables of employers every five minutes.

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.

We are hoping for a “white out” at Tumwater Vineyard June 1st for the 2024 Building Hope Gala & Auction. Our intrepid Gala team encourages everyone to dress in your best white “summer chic” outfit as we raise money for Home Building Foundation.

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.

We are excited to share that Neil Fernando will be the Honorary Chair for the 27th Annual Building Hope Gala & Auction, presented by RidgeCrest Custom Cabinetry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.