Habitat for Humanity Riverside was lucky to participate in Community Connect’s 15th Annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet by nominating two volunteers this year. Debi Bagley, who was unable to attend the banquet, has been a volunteer with Habitat Riverside since 2004. She is also very involved with Riverside’s Rape Crisis Center. She serves on Habitat Riverside’s […]
Hot day, hot group! What a HUGE difference we made yesterday at Countrywood Estates in Corona. Thanks to a small but mighty group of volunteers from Kaiser Corona and Kaiser Fontana together with a few loyal Helping Hands regulars we completely painted the exterior of unit #26. The homeowner, Jesus Hernandez helped us get set […]
The Martinez Family was invited to be guest speakers at the UCR Habitat Campus Chapter meeting to share their experience with Habitat and their goal of home ownership. The family of four currently rents one bedroom and is sharing the home with four other families. Five families in one house is not only an overcrowded […]
Sometimes Habitat Riverside has unusual requests for our volunteers. They show up and do extraordinary work. We held a small dirt party at our new build, Crestmore. Volunteers literally strengthened the foundation for a new Habitat home by shoveling and packing dirt against the cement slab. Thanks to the 3 volunteers and 2 Habitat family […]
Ramona High School Habitat Campus Chapter hosted their first Benefit Concert at Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside to help raise funds for decent and affordable housing. They had a full house along with UCR Campus Chapter members and Habitat Homeowner (an Alumn of Ramona High School) who came out to show their support. With […]
What a great work day at Countrywood in Corona on Tuesday the 10th! A team from the Young Professionals Network (Real Estate Professionals) volunteered for Helping Hands. With the threat of storms last week, we were concerned about getting done quickly to let the units dry before any rain hit so we sent out a […]
Thanks to Living Way Christian Fellowship in Moreno Valley and some of our loyal members of the Habitat Chapter at UCR we were able to help two homeowners in the Santiago Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley on Saturday April 7th. We had about 18 people working on homeowner Anne Warren’s unit which needed a […]
Habitat for Humanity Riverside received a warm welcome from the City of Jurupa Valley at the city council meeting. The presentation included pictures from the 28 homes Habitat Riverside has built & rehabilitated and the 20 mobile home rehabilitation projects in Jurupa Valley. With a pink hardhat, Mayor Laura Roughton was officially invited to join […]
Riverside Airport’s 20th Annual Air Show began as a ‘ground’ show due to spring drizzles and clouds. So to burn off some of that cloud cover they brought the “Smoke-n-Thunder” Jet Car to the runway. Those jet engines certainly excited the crowd as they blasted fire and bellowed sound percussions. We could feel them all […]
Once again our loyal volunteers showed up in full force for a project in the Santiago Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley last Friday. We painted a unit belonging to a family who is surviving on disability income after the father was declared permanently disabled due to an injury. He had already spent several months […]
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