Opportunity Details
Build Homes, Change Lives! (age 16+) *Stand Together Week*
Willamette West Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to providing our community with decent, affordable housing to low-income families. We believe homeownership is the key to a family's future, fostering strength, self-reliance, and stability through shelter. We almost completely rely on volunteers to build our homes, so we schedule volunteers every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday every week of the year.
Volunteers will be helping to build homes for low-income families. Tasks may include framing walls, installing sheetrock, painting, yard-work, hanging doors, siding a house, installing windows, moving supplies, etc.
All are welcome! No experience is necessary, we teach all volunteers everything they need to know day of. Volunteers will also get the opportunity to work with the families they are serving.
Habitat works in partnership with low-income families, volunteers, donors, and organizations to receive donated materials, volunteer labor and generous financial gifts. Qualifying families purchase habitat homes by contributing 500 hours of "Sweat Equity" building Habitat homes and a down payment. They receive a zero-percent interest rate mortgage (0% APR) and monthly payments structured to their income. Mortgage payments from Habitat homes go into a fund which is then recycled back in to the community building more Habitat homes.
Stand Together Week is the Portland Timbers, Thorns FC, and T2 citywide volunteer initiative that brings the community together to support local nonprofit organizations. The week engages hundreds of supporters, including Timbers, Thorns FC, & T2 players, coaches, ambassadors and front office staff who work with various non-profits in the community. Since 2012, Stand Together Week participants have donated 15,371 hours of service at over 193 projects focused on benefitting youth and the environment.
Project Requirements:
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Volunteers under age 18 must attend with a parent or adult chaperone. The minimum age to volunteer with an adult chaperone is age 16.
All volunteers under 18 are required to bring a Youth Volunteer Release Form signed by their parent or legal guardian. Please download, complete, and bring this waiver with you on the day of the project. -
If you plan to bring children/additional volunteers you MUST reserve slots for them. The best way to do this is to create a Volunteer Team, then sign up your team for this project. Questions? Email teams@handsonportland.org.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are responsible for ensuring that everyone signed up through your team attends - only sign up team members who have confirmed their availability. Teams that repeatedly sign up, but do not show up or show up with fewer volunteers than they signed up, may be removed. To add or remove team members from a project: log in to your volunteer account and click "Manage My Team" next to the appropriate upcoming opportunity.
Click "Sign Up" below to reserve your spot! Need help signing up? Call 503-200-3355.
Keywords: free_the_future
Age Minimum (with Adult): 16+, Minimum Age:18+
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