FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 31, 2007
Contact: Brad Wurfel, 503-603-4508
Nearly 300 volunteers repair area shelters Sept. 8
The Home Builders Foundation of Metropolitan Portland is preparing for its second-annual Painting a Better Tomorrow event Sept. 8. This program organizes teams of volunteers from the building industry who donate their labor and materials to help repair Portland’s area shelters.
Most of the Portland-area shelters are non-profits operating on shoestring budgets. The Home Builders Foundation started the Painting a Better Tomorrow program to help shelters address facility repairs and maintenance.
Shelter operators apply for help with projects that can be completed in a day – leaky roofs, interior and exterior painting, flooring and sub-flooring repair, and more.
Nearly 300 volunteers representing 42 local companies will be handling projects at 20 shelters around the metro Portland area.
This is a very visual, very compelling story about the home building industry doing what it does best in support of the Portland community.
Who: Teams of Volunteers with the Home Builders Foundation’s Painting a Better Tomorrow Program.
What: Home repair projects at shelters throughout metro Portland.
When: Sept. 8, starting at 8 a.m.
Where: 20 different locations (attached). Call Brad Wurfel at the HBA for details.
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Home Builders Foundation of Metropolitan Portland
Painting a Better Tomorrow
September 8, 2007
Brentwood Darlington Center houses Portland Impact’s children, youth, and family services department. A team from MBank will be repairing and painting portions of the exterior of the building needing attention that have been worn down to bare wood. Miller Paint will supply all the products/supplies needed to complete the job.
Columbia County Women’s Resource Center provides services and support to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their loved ones. They serve approximately 206 women annually. Terrafirma Building Inc. has volunteered to build an awning over their adult patio area and provide landscaping for the outside sitting area. They will be donating materials for the project as well.
Daybreak Shelter (Human Solutions) provides transitional housing for approximately 65 families (adults and children) each year that total approximately 154 shelter guests annually. They have requested that the volunteer team from Costa Pacific Communities perform some bathroom repairs, interior painting and provide some much needed shelving for their clothing closet. Paint for this project will be donated by Rodda Paint.
Insights Teen Parent Program serves young families with teen parents in Multnomah County to aid them with necessary life skills to meet the demands of family life by providing counseling, parenting classes, housing assistance, and continuing education. Their In-Home program provides one-on-one parenting education to support young parents who are at risk of child abuse or neglect. Volunteers from the Tigard area Contract Furnishings Mart will be painting and performing minor repairs to several interior areas of the facility. Paint will be provided by Rodda Paint.
Kateri Park Apartments (Catholic Charities) serves low-income individuals and families that are at or below 50% median family income for our area. The team from Bank of America will be doing some interior and exterior painting to spruce up the facility. Their paint will be supplied by Sherwin Williams.
My Father's House serves homeless families with shelter in the Gresham area. They currently turn away over 100 families each month. This new site will increase their capacity to serve homeless families from 26 to 120 families annually. One of the recipients of 2007 Home Builders Foundation Scholarships, Meegan Watts, has assembled a team of volunteers including some from Alameda Construction to perform primarily landscaping, with some siding work and painting, on this project. Miller Paint has offered to provide paint for this project.
Next Step (Portland Rescue Mission) is a transitional independent living facility for men in the long term recovery program. The exterior of the facility is in need of new paint and Rodda Paint Company has stepped forward to provide a volunteer team of Rodda employees AND all the paint and supplies for this project.
Outreach Ministries in Burnside will be served by a team from Lumbermens for the second year in a row. They will be painting several interior rooms as well as performing repairs and painting in several interior rooms. They may also replace some shabby bath fixtures & flooring. Paint will be provided by Rodda Paint.
Outside In is a shelter in the downtown Portland area serving homeless youth and low income adults. The HUGE team from the First American Title (25 volunteers) will be doing interior painting in several areas. First American has also offered to send some of its volunteers to any other teams needing extra assistance. Paint at Outside In is being provided by Miller Paint.
Rafael House is one of the largest domestic violence shelters in Oregon, providing emergency shelter to women and children survivors of domestic violence. Each year over 350 women, children and teenagers make Raphael House their home. 60 percent of Rafael House participants are under the age of 18. Because of the great need, the state of Oregon only allows Rafael House to close for maintenance and repairs for one week each year. However, in 2007 it was determined that the shelter needed more attention—so the shelter will be closed for two weeks. During this time several teams will assist through the Painting a Better Tomorrow program. Miller Paint Company will be supplying the paint and their employees, together with their customer Jenkins Painting, will be painting the interior of the shelter. Alonzo Flooring and Chuck’s Flooring will be installing donated flooring as well.
Richmond Place is Portland Impact’s transitional housing facility for families. They have requested interior painting and repair which will be performed by a team from the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Paint for this project will be supplied by Rodda Paint company.
Royal Palm (Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare) serves chronically homeless adults with severe and persistent mental illness and often co-occurring abuse disorder. The facility located in Portland's Old Town requested interior painting from the team of workers from Fireside Distributors. Their paint is being supplied by Rodda Paint.
Shepard's Door is located on NE Halsey and serves homeless women with or without children. Two teams will be working at the shelter this year. Ticor Title will be doing some minor carpentry and painting several rooms inside, while outside a crew from Northwest Tree Specialties are volunteering their professional expertise to remove a dead 40’ Monkey Puzzle Tree from the yard. The paint supplies will be donated by Miller Paint.
Union Gospel Mission provides residential recovery for men and women as well as food and clothing for the homeless and needy. Interior painting on their facility in Portland’s Old Town will be performed by a team from Macadam Vision Clinic. The paint company providing paint on this project is Sherwin-Williams.
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Cornelius will be receiving five new donated windows they requested from Milgard Windows . The Wilsonville company stepped up without hesitation, also providing their own installers for the project. The center provides primary health care and education for those who are uninsured, migrant farm workers.
Harvest House (Yamhill Community Action Partnership) is a Newberg house that serves single parents and single females and children 8 years old and younger who are in need of temporary housing. Jim Fisher Roofing’s team will be doing much needed roof repair and cleaning on the facility. A team from
Decking Northwest will be building a fence around the back yard to keep young children from running into the highway.
Yamhill Community Action Partnership also has two additional shelters in McMinnville needing roof repair. Jim Fishing Roofing will also be sending a team to McMinnville to replace damaged roofing on both of these facilities as well. They will be working on all three YCAP shelters on September 4th & 5th.
YWCA’s Safehaven Shelter provides transitional shelter for homeless individuals and families in need throughout the metropolitan Portland area—including Multnomah, Clark, Washington and Clackamas counties. Numerous companies will be represented at this site, as Sam Sundeleaf of Sundeleaf Painting will be leading 21 representatives of the HBA Remodelors™ Council who will all be working together to paint 12 interior rooms of the shelter. Their paint will be provided by Rodda Paint.