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. For the first time, Home Building Foundation is embarking on an affordable housing project, expanding its traditional focus on emergency and transitional shelter to permanent, supportive housing. In early 2023, […]
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 grateful for […]
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. For more than 25 years, Neil has been a leading proponent of public and private development in the Pacific Northwest. In 2005, he founded Emerio Design—a best-in-class engineering, […]
Home Building Foundation Board President Brian Schmidt brought his team from Brian Schmidt Builder, and HBF Board Vice President Brian Boggs recruited another from Pacific Crest Custom Cabinetry to provide volunteer power for a very worthy cause. Catholic Charities Kenton Women’s Village had a long list of repairs that needed done, and this volunteer work […]
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. Then, we begin recruiting members of the building community. Some offer to lead a project […]
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’s work at the old home in downtown Newberg was spearheaded by Builder Captain Nathan Young, and involved many tradespeople from the residential building community. Staff of YCAP, Yamhill Community […]
The annual Foundation Builders Breakfast was buzzing with conversation early in the morning. The Breakfast honors outstanding contributors to our cause, and encourages people to support HBF’s work. To kick off the event, HBF Board Treasurer Earl Pierce announced Delap LLC would match donations up to $5,000. “I believe HBF is trying to bring things […]
Reynolds Learning Academy’s Trades program students had only been in class about a month, but they plunged right into a challenging carpentry project. Fortunately, Holt Homes sent master carpenters Evan Schakols and Jake Childreth to guide them. Reynolds had asked Home Building Foundation for a project at the beginning of this school year, and Holt […]
The five- star view of the Willamette River helped make an August gathering especially luxe for Home Building Foundation and our supporters. We are fortunate Board Member Jeffery Tamburro helped us reserve the NW Natural Gas downtown Portland rooftop for our annual Donor Appreciation Event. We raised a glass with several of our other board […]
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 […]