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Our Habitat Affiliates |
Willamette West HFH
Mt Hood HFH
Evergreen HFH
Our affiliates have built over 200 homes in the Portland Metro Area.
Check out their links to to learn more about the great work they do. |
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Joining our mailing list gets you in on deals and hot items. It also helps you see what the work that we do at the ReStore contributes to. To date we have raised over $450,000 for Habitat, our goal is to raise at least $100,000 this year. |
| Our Business Sponsors |
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Please consider joining our sponsor team!
List your business here and get your name on our truck too!
Contact Joe at jconnell@pdxrestore.org
Visit our site for more information: www.pdxrestore.org.
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The ReStore is Sponsoring a Blitz Build home!
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One of the most exciting events within the Habitat world are our Blitz Builds. A Blitz Build is when we build a home, or several homes, in one week!
Last year Portland Habitat built 4 homes during the Blitz Build week. This year we will be building 3 with the help of a very special group of volunteers that travel to a different city every year. Portland is delighted to be chosen by this group for this year.
The exciting part for us here at the ReStore is that we are sponsoring one of these homes. This means that the money that we have raised this year for the Portland affiliate is dedicated to the building of this home.
The three homes of this years Blitz Build will be blitz-built from June 22nd-June 30th by a group of 50-75 experienced volunteer builders called the "Blitz Home Builders" who partner each year with a different Habitat affiliate.
Home sponsors are:
* Lumbermens
* First Horizon Home Loans
* The Craig Reger Group.
* The ReStore. We still could use a co-sponsor! Email Shannon Tennant or give her a call at at 503-287-9529, ext. 13 if you're interested.
For more info on the Builders Blitz check out PHFH's website at www.pdxhabitat.org. You can also check out other Habitat builds at each of our affiliate links.
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| Hot New Items |
Lots and lots of new formica counter tops. Various colors, all $3 per linear foot.
Salvaged white oak flooring 6400 square feet. This is nice straight clean stuff from a gymnasium floor. $2 per square foot.
Still have some of the composite decking left. Summer is the time for building that deck! So come get it while its hot! $1.50 per linear foot.
Glue lams, we got a big shipment in, lots of sizes, including some big ones, all .50 cents a board foot!
1/2" Drywall! About a lift of 12 footers and another lift of 8's and 4's [use to be 12's].
4' for $1.
81 for $3.
12' for $6.
Year end paint and chemical sale!!!!
All paint and chemicals $1 or less. The only exception is our new Metro Paint, which will remain at its already low price of $20! | |
News from the Portland Metro Area ReStore
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As any of you who have been in the store recently have no doubt noticed, we are working on our entrance. Our staff and volunteers have installed a great new ramp that is made entirely out of ReStore materials. This ramp is great for customers that don't have a truck and makes the front of the store somehow look much friendlier. Thanks go out to Darin for working so hard to make it happen.
Of course the ramp is just the first piece. For part of what it does is isolate the corner that use to be our coffee bar and we will now be using that area for displays and information. Many of our customers look to us for information on all kinds of things, from Habitat stuff to recycling to what to do with the great materials they find. Our hope is to create an area where some of those questions can be answered; or, if nothing else, they can at least get pointed in the right direction to find answers for themselves.
The area will feature information about Habitat as well as displays on Portland's Office of Sustainable Development, Metro Paint, Metro Recycling, and maybe even a community board as well. Its all in the works. If you would like to get involved in helping to create this area please contact Shane at shane@pdxrestoreorg.
Even as I speak of this I realize that there is so much info out there in the world. So another of our goals is to distill some of the information that we think is most relavant to our customers and present it in a way that helps all of us understand the tremendous implications of buying at our store. Saving money by shopping at the ReStore is a terrific thing, but we want to raise the awareness that shopping at the ReStore is also making a difference in our world and our community by choosing to purchase materials that would otherwise be wasted. And of coarse there is also the wonderful knowledge of making a significant impact on the lives of families through Habitat home ownership.
It is easy to think that what little we do is insignificant. Think about the fact however that there are now over 500 ReStores throughout the US. And that their are 1700 Habitat affiliates. In the next 5 years there could easily be 1000 ReStores, all working with the name of one of the most trusted and popular non-profits in the world. The potencial for effecting how people think about waste is tremendous.
After all, educating the public about Habitat, Re-Use, and Re-cycling, is one part of our mission. One we want to do a lot more with.
Joe Connell
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We need more warehouse volunteers!!!! It's summer time and we need more help. Some of our school groups and community service volunteers tend to drop off during the summer. Usually our donations do as well so its not a problem. But we are finding that the donations are not dropping off as usually this summer, which is terrific, our store is packed with lots of great stuff. So we need more help on the floor. So if you are a Habitat Volunteer and want to help us out a bit as well, or if you can't get on site to build, please give us some help for a bit this summer.
Currently the Restore is also in need of Assistant (to the) Truck Driver Volunteers.
We could also use a volunteer to assist us from 10am to 2pm on Saturday the 16th of June to provide background information on Habitat for Humanity and the Restore to Cyclists participating in a Scavenger Hunt. The goal of the hunt is to inform participants about local non-profits and community resources.
There could be quite a few people stopping in to hear about what we do, and we need some help so the staff is not overwhelmed. Please help out if you can; it will be a great way for us to educate folks about the ReStore.
If you are interested in any of these opportunities to volunteer with the Habit Restore please contact Shane at 503-283-6247 (ext 3) or shane@pdxrestore.org
Visit our website to learn more about volunteering at the ReStore.
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| ReFIT! Another great non-profit that changing lives, one home at a time! |
ReFIT is a non-profit volunteer organization providing home modification services for physically and financially challenged homeowners who wish to remain living independently in their homes.
Since 1997, ReFIT has gone into homes in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties in Oregon to remove structural barriers that have limited the use of the home to the owner because of their age or disability. ReFIT was previously known as the Remodelers Foundation.
Owning your own home is something most everyone aspires to as they enter adulthood. It often takes years to reach this goal and transform the house into the castle one envisions. However, a catastrophic injury, illness or even the aging process can render a home inaccessible and useless to the owner especially if they have limited financial resources. By removing these barriers, opening up the space, and adding safety features such as grab bars, more lighting etc., we can make it possible for the elderly and persons with disabilities to remain living independently in their own homes.
For many members of our community, limited mobility creates obstacles to living independently. The path to their own front door may suddenly or over time become an arduous journey, one that cannot be made unaided. Access to rooms may be restricted by narrow doorways, impassable to someone in a wheelchair. A first-floor bathroom may lack a shower; a closet may be out of reach.
For the people ReFIT serves, having a resource to meet these simple, practical needs can make the difference between remaining independent and having to seek care in an assisted living facility or adult foster home. ReFIT provides necessary remodeling services for homeowners who wish to remain in their homes, but could not otherwise do so.
Making our community a better place one home at a time.
Do you want to know a little more about ReFIT? Or would you like to see some of the people they've been able to help? Check out their website for more info and a great little movie about what they do, and the people they serve.
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