Habitat is very excited to have been selected to participate this year amongst 79 local nonprofits in the Willamette Week’s 2010 Give!Guide. Willamette Week embraces all donors, but puts a special emphasis on identifying new donors under the age of 36 — and provides all sorts of incentives to help bring this about. Here’s What You […]

Former Habitat employee and friend, Sky Khalsa, passed away on October 16th. Sky was born in Hood River, Oregon on June 11th, 1960. He graduated from Lake Oswego High School in 1978 and received his Associates Degree from ITT Technical Institute. Sky served as construction manager for both Portland Habitat and Mt. Hood Habitat from 1999-2007 […]

Party with DJ Lance Rock and the Yo Gabba Gabba Gang on November 14 in Portland, OR at the Memorial Coliseum plus 4 VIP tickets to the show! The auction package includes 4 VIP Tickets (Floor/Row 1/Seats 1-4) for the YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE! THERE’S A PARTY IN MY CITY! show on November 14 at […]

WASHINGTON (Oct. 4, 2010) – Today, to mark the United Nations’ World Habitat Day, Habitat for Humanity is kicking off its 27th annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, as well as other building and awareness-raising events across the United States and around the world. President and Mrs. Carter, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary […]

Thanks to a dynamic collaboration between Bank of America and KGW, a 30-second clip featuring Habitat for Humanity will air on channel 8 beginning in mid-September through mid-October.  The video features the Gonzales-Hankins family who are future homeowners at Rivergate Commons in north Portland.

The first step is attending one of these meetings in September. Interested in being a Habitat homeowner? You may qualify to buy a Habitat home. The first step is to attend one of the meetings below. You may qualify if you are: A first time homeowner A U.S. citizen or permanent resident Currently living in […]

Congratulations to Anne Kornfeld who was selected as the winner of our first-ever Pens & Hammers volunteer essay contest! We’d like to thank everyone who participated and submitted their essay about volunteering with Habitat. Please read Anne’s essay below that outlines her experience building at Jubilee Commons. By Anne Kornfeld Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity […]

On Friday, August 20,  staff members from the Portland Housing Bureau ventured out to Habitat’s Lents Landing  site for a sunny build day as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Team Builders program. Team Builders program offers corportate groups the chance to step out of the cubicle, look away form the computer screen, build camaraderie and […]

Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East has made the 2010 list of 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon and will appear in the October issue of Oregon Business magazine! Nonprofits are an important sector in Oregon that employs more than 150,000 employees. To recognize that nonprofits are also key businesses critical to the economic […]

Habitat’s nine-home Lents Landing development at SE 97th Avenue has been selected for the City of Portland’s ninth annual Build It Green! (BIG) home tour. The tour is meant to inform and inspire Portlanders to consider green technologies when building or remodeling homes. The more green housing becomes, the lower the city’s carbon footprint. This […]