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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
The Forest Grove ReStore is a critical fundraising and community outreach tool of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity. The vision of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity is a community where everyone has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities and is a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty. The ReStore plays a CRITICAL role in funding our home building and home repair programs, as well as providing a way to interact with your community almost every day. We would love volunteers to help us identify and research "treasures" and collectibles donated to our store. We get original art work, antiques, collectibles and other treasures, but we don't always have the staffing nor the expertise among staff to know that something is particularly valuable and how to price such. All you need is to come into the ReStore with a laptop or smart phone of your own and have a look at items we already have on the floor or that we have saved in a storeroom, hoping to do more research on its value before we offer it to sale. You would come in even just once a month (we would prefer twice a month) and go through the items we have put aside for you to view. If your expertise is antiques or a particular kind of vintage item, then that's what we will have you look at. If your expertise is collectibles (plates, figurines, mugs, tins), then that's what we will reserve for you to view, research and price for us. If you can also take photos of the items with your smart phone for your part time marketing person to use in advertising, all the better! We would like someone to do this regularly: one day a week, or one day every other week, or one day twice a month. We would like for the person to make a commitment to doing this for at least three months. And you can do it with a friend, if you wish! We are happy to sign off on any paperwork if you undertake this role for a class or if you want to do this for assigned community service. We are right on TriMet Line 57! We already involve volunteers in most aspects of our house-building and home repairs (and you are welcomed to do that too!) - but we want the community involved and invested even more in what we do, and a way to do that is involving more volunteers. In addition, we want to keep as much of our finances as possible into those home-building and home repair activities, to support vulnerable families in Western Washington County, Oregon. We have even more volunteering opportunities listed on our web site at www.westualityhabitat.org During service, volunteers are representatives of Habitat for Humanity and our mission. In addition to complying with all laws, regulations and Habitat for Humanity policies, all volunteers are expected to follow Habitat’s Code of Conduct.
Date Posted: Oct 16, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
This is a role for a volunteer with a car. This is a one-person task, but if you want to take along a friend, you can! We say this is an "ongoing" opportunity but it's really not: it can take place on ONE DAY, whatever week day YOU choose. It needs to happen between 9 and 5 on a weekday. It could be broken up into two mornings or two afternoons if that works better for you. The task is simple: the volunteer will drive to the city halls, libraries, senior centers, community centers and grocery stores in Banks, Gaston, Cornelius, North Plains and Forest Grove and post flyers and brochures about Habitat programs. You can pick the weekday you do this. We estimate this will take about four hours of your time altogether. What's required: for you to come here to our offices and pick up the materials and get a safety briefing, for you to drive to drop off points, walk into the establishment, say you would like to post the flyer on their community board or display the brochures in a particular area (where others are doing so), and then, with permission, you do so! We'd love for you to take photos of yourself dropping things off, but you absolutely do NOT have to. You can do this just once, or do it again a few months later. But it needs to be done on a weekday, sometime between 9 and 5. You are welcomed to have a friend or family member be with you in your car as you deliver these items. We cannot reimburse you for gas, but if you itemize your taxes, you can deduct the mileage on your tax returns. Volunteers need to be fully licensed and insured drivers, driving a fully licensed and insured car of their own. Volunteers are asked to sign a liability waiver and a photo release. Serious applicants only! Please don't apply unless you have the time to do this assignment and have thought about the day you will be able to do it. We are happy to sign off on any paperwork if you undertake this role for a class or if you want to do this for assigned community service. This task will help us reach potential participants in our house-building program and our home repairs program, help us reach new volunteers, build awareness about our work in Western Washington County. We already involve volunteers in most aspects of our house-building and home repairs (and you can do that too!), but we also want the community involved and invested even more in what we do, and a way to do that is involving more volunteers. In addition, we want to keep as much of our finances as possible into those home-building and home repair activities, to support vulnerable families in Western Washington County, Oregon. We have even more volunteering opportunities listed on our web site at www.westualityhabitat.org The vision of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity is a community where everyone has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities and is a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty. Our offices are above the Forest Grove ReStore, which is a critical fundraising tool for all of our programs in Western Washington County, Oregon.
Date Posted: Sep 19, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
We have a blog on our West Tuality Habitat for Humanity web site. We have another on our Forest Grove ReStore web site. www.westtualityhabitat.org and www.fgrestore.org The West Tuality Habitat blog is focused on our home-building, home-repair and affordable home advocacy efforts in Western Washington County, Oregon. The Forest Grove ReStore blog is about activities by our customers and activities in the store. Sales from the ReStore help to fund the programs of West Tuality Habitat locally and the ReStore also serves as a key way for us to regularly interact with our community. We would love to have regular editors of the blogs to help us find areas that Grammerly or our authors do not and that need to be improved. During service, volunteers are representatives of Habitat for Humanity and our mission. In addition to complying with all laws, regulations and Habitat for Humanity policies, all volunteers are expected to follow Habitat’s Code of Conduct.
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
The vision of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity is a community where everyone has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities and is a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty. Our work is focused on Western Washington County, Oregon (Forest Grove, Cornelius, Gaston, North Plains, Gales Creek, Banks, Timber, Buxton and the surrounding areas). Volunteers are welcomed to join one of our two core volunteer build crews. The core build crew works alongside future owners of Habitat Homes. The core repair crew assists vulnerable home owners with minor repairs and improvements, such as installing a wheel chair ramp, painting or removing rotting steps. NO CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. We will teach you how to use tools and how to do any task, and a very experienced volunteer or professional will be helping you every step of the way. Working on our new builds can include framing, siding, painting, flooring, fencing, trim work, landscaping, drainage, and finish work. Working on home repair sites is similar. We anticipate starting our home building at the new Countrymen Estates site in the Spring of 2024. When this home building resumes, our crew will work Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday mornings, rain or shine. Our home repair crew follows a similar schedule. You can join either crew for a day, for a week, or longer! Hard hats, safety vests, and protective glasses are provided and are to be worn at all times. Volunteers are asked to wear closed-toe shoes or boots and to wear comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on or getting dirty. Layering clothing is recommended as temperatures can change throughout the day. Volunteers are asked to wear rain pants and a jacket if you may be working in the rain - and remember, we work rain or shine. We strongly discourage you from bringing valuables, including jewelry, to our worksites. Personal power tools are not allowed. There is no smoking, drugs, or alcohol allowed on our worksites. Worksites are all over Western Washington County. If you do not have transportation to sites, we may be able to do ride sharing with other volunteers, meeting at the West Tuality Habitat for Humanity / ReStore office in Forest Grove. If you are interested in volunteering on home building or home repair, express your interest here via VolunteerMatch and you will be added to our mailing list and will get information on the start date for volunteers, or the next date that volunteers will mobilize. We are happy to sign off on any paperwork if you undertake this role for a class or if you want to do this for assigned community service. We can also sign off on paperwork for the President's Service Award. If you are representing a group that is interested in this volunteering activity, please note this in your application, and provide us with as much detail as possible (how many, what organization you represent, etc.). Volunteer go through an onsite safety training and must follow our Code of Conduct, which is available on our web site and is posted at the work site. Please note that we cannot provide childcare and volunteers must be at least 16 years old. Other restrictions may apply. During service, volunteers are representatives of Habitat for Humanity and our mission. In addition to complying with all laws, regulations and Habitat for Humanity policies, all volunteers are expected to follow Habitat’s Code of Conduct. We also strongly encourage you to follow West Tuality Habitat for Humanity on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube.
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2023
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
The vision of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity is a community where everyone has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities and is a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty. Our work is focused on Western Washington County, Oregon (Forest Grove, Cornelius, Gaston, North Plains, Gales Creek, Banks, Timber, Buxton and the surrounding areas). Our computer systems are essential to our work. We use them to track clients, potential clients, volunteers and their contributions, and donors and their contributions, as well as to track our accomplishments, client needs, administrative activities, building activities, outreach lists and so much more. Our small affiliate is in need of an IT expert, or a small team, willing to volunteer his or her time to come onsite to our office in Forest Grove and: Help to reconnect one of our computers to our printers (we've tried everything!) Help to connect a computer to our server (we're not sure it's possible; we need to know what wiring we might need, as we don't think it's possible via wireless connection) Assess our current computers and estimate when we will need to replace them (how much longer can we use our current hardware?) The volunteer(s) would need to keep in mind that: We are a tiny nonprofit with a very limited budget. Our small staff has very limited IT knowledge - but we need to be able to main our computer systems ourselves as much as possible. We need IT systems to last as long as possible. We think that an IT expert or volunteer team could finish all of the aforementioned tasks, or at least gather all of the info they need, in just one visit. We are happy to sign off on any paperwork if you undertake this role for a class or if you want to do this for assigned community service. We can also sign off on paperwork for the President's Service Award. Volunteers must follow our Code of Conduct, which is available on our web site and is posted at the work site. We also strongly encourage you to follow West Tuality Habitat for Humanity on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube.
Date Posted: Oct 31, 2023
