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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: 2024-02-27
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
You can involve classmates, colleagues and others in this role and make this a group volunteering opportunity! We would love to have fun, short videos promote shopping at our ReStore, donating to our ReStore, volunteering at our ReStore or volunteering at construction or home repair sites with West Tuality Habitat. When we say short, we mean videos that would be good for Instagram, Facebook Reels and maybe even TikTok. Do you have a smart phone that can shoot video? Do you know how to edit videos, adding in copyright-free music and special effects like fading in and out or titles? Do you have video-editing software? And are you feeling creative? Do you have some videos you could show us that give us an idea of your abilities? Then this could be perfect for you! If you have said yes to these questions, have a look at some Habitat for Humanity and ReStore Instagram and Tik Tok channels, to get an idea of what others out there are doing. And if you have some ideas, then let's meet! There are Habitat and ReStore affiliates all over the USA and we would love to videos like so many of them are doing! 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. The ReStore is one of our primary fundraising tools, as well a vital community outreach tool. We are happy to sign off on any paperwork if you undertake this volunteering role for a class or if you want to do this for assigned community service. This would also make a great class project. The Habitat for Humanity vision is a community where everyone has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live. We do Critical Home Repairs for for our neighbors who are disabled, veterans, elderly, or have low or fixed-incomes and we build affordable housing units alongside the future homeowners. The Forest Grove ReStore is a critical fundraising tool for all of the housing programs of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity. 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 participate in 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: 2024-05-07
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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 Summer of 2024 - probably in May. 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: 2024-02-27
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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. The ReStore plays a CRITICAL role in funding our home building and home repair programs. We would love to post more photos of items available in the ReStore, and of our happy customers. Tuesdays are taken care of, but we would love volunteers coming in on different days and taking photos. You could pick the day and time - Mondays, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday are available. And all you need is a camera OR a smart phone, a good eye, and a Drop Box or Google Drive to upload your photos to share with our social media manager. You look through our Facebook account first to see which items we have already featured. You take photos of five to 10 items to feature on our Facebook and Instagram pages. You upload the photos so that the social media manager can access them and share them on Facebook and other social media accounts. If you can take short videos with your phone, you can do that too - we'll splice them together for short clips for our social media channel. Lots of Habitat for Humanity chapters have volunteers doing some really creative things with short video clips (look around on Instagram, Tik Tok and or YouTube for more to see what we'd like to do too). We would like someone to do this regularly: one day a week (except Tuesdays), 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 - it's always nice to have someone help to arrange items, hold them to provide scale, etc. 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: 2024-02-29
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Flexible Schedule
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Forest Grove, OR 97116
West Tuality Habitat for Humanity’s Critical Home Repair projects serve the elderly, people with disabilities, low or fixed-incomes, and military veterans who are homeowners in our area of Western Washington County, including Forest Grove, Banks, Cornelius, North Plains, Gaston, Gales Creek and the surrounding area. Handyman or Construction experience is helpful but not always required! As a repair volunteer, you could find yourself doing yard work, exterior painting, major or minor repairs, working on ramps, railings, grab bars and more. These repairs enable the homeowners to live longer in their own home that serves their needs better and more safely, while maintaining the value of their greatest investment-their home. The Repair Crew typically works on Tuesday and Thursday mornings (others days as needed) and meets at the Forest Grove ReStore, 3731 Pacific Ave, Forest Grove OR 97116.
Date Posted: 2024-02-27
