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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Corona, Volunteers | Comments Off on 11/23/12: HFH Volunteers Gave a Home a Touch Up for the Holidays

11/23/12: HFH Volunteers Gave a Home a Touch Up for the Holidays

11/23/12: HFH Volunteers Gave a Home a Touch Up for the Holidays

Habitat Riverside is always thankful for our volunteers that sign up online to give up their time to help homeowners in need.  It’s especially gratifying to see so many give up a day during the long Thanksgiving weekend when most of them have this time off to spend with their families.  On the 23rd, yes Black Friday, a great group […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Moreno Valley, Ramona HS Campus Chapter, Volunteers | Comments Off on 11/20/12: Ramona HS Helped Beautify a Santiago Estate Home

11/20/12: Ramona HS Helped Beautify a Santiago Estate Home

11/20/12: Ramona HS Helped Beautify a Santiago Estate Home

Once again the Ramona High Habitat Chapter gave up a day off from school to join us in helping out a homeowner in need. It was an especially exciting day since we just heard the Chapter had just been awarded a grant through Habitat International and State Farm Insurance! The grant will be used to […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Volunteers | Comments Off on 11/17/12: Volunteers Beat the Rain To Clean Up Home

11/17/12: Volunteers Beat the Rain To Clean Up Home

11/17/12: Volunteers Beat the Rain To Clean Up Home

After ABWK was rained out last Friday and Saturday we were determined to make sure we got this Saturday’s project completed. It rained pretty steady the night before but stopped early enough to allow the home to dry out a bit and we were on! Volunteers from Calvary Presbyterian Church and Emmanuel Lutheran Church were […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Moreno Valley, Volunteers | Comments Off on 11/3/12: Jasso’s MBA Student Volunteers

11/3/12: Jasso’s MBA Student Volunteers

11/3/12: Jasso’s MBA Student Volunteers

Once again, Professor Sean Jasso and his MBA students at UCR came out ready to work on Saturday to help Habitat Riverside paint the exterior of a mobile home belonging to a low income family in need of A Brush with Kindness. Together they painted the home of Felix and Rosa who live in the […]

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10/27/12: UCR Chapter & ADT Volunteers

10/27/12: UCR Chapter & ADT Volunteers

A big thank you goes out to the teams from ADT and the UCR Habitat Campus Chapter who worked hard painting the home of Sultan and Muna in the Countrywood Estates Mobile Home Community in Corona.  This large group of energetic volunteers came ready to make a difference for this family.  Sultan is a senior […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Volunteers | Comments Off on 10/20/12: Kaiser Cares!

10/20/12: Kaiser Cares!

10/20/12: Kaiser Cares!

After weeks of temperatures reaching into the 90’s and even a couple of days last week hitting the 100 degree mark, who would have guessed that Saturday would bring drizzles and cloudy skies all day? Certainly not the hardy volunteers from Kaiser Permanente who showed up en masse at King Arthur’s Mobile Home Park in […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Moreno Valley, Volunteers | Comments Off on 10/13/12: Psomas Volunteers

10/13/12: Psomas Volunteers

10/13/12: Psomas Volunteers

Psomas Engineering pulled together a group of family and friends to join us at Il Sorrento Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley on Saturday to paint the home of Viola and Judy.  The homeowners are both seniors who definitely can’t afford a new paint job (a recent estimate of the cost to paint one of these […]

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10/6/12: RHS & Ring Container

10/6/12: RHS & Ring Container

It always takes a strong group to paint a home with Habitat’s A Brush With Kindness program and it was no different on Saturday October 6th when volunteers from Ring Container once again joined Habitat Riverside, together with the Ramona High School Habitat Campus Chapter, to paint the home of Nick, a disabled veteran, and […]

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9/22/12: Rising Star Academy Volunteers

9/22/12: Rising Star Academy Volunteers

Rising Star Academy rose to the challenge and painted the home of seniors Betty and Ken in the Il Sorrento Mobile Home Community in Moreno Valley. Finally, the weather cooperated for the first time in quite a while providing a light cloud cover to help keep the group cooler than usual for September. This was the […]

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Posted by in A Brush with Kindness, Volunteers | Comments Off on 9/20/12: Sleep Train Volunteers

9/20/12: Sleep Train Volunteers

9/20/12: Sleep Train Volunteers

A big thank you goes out to the volunteer group from Sleep Train who came out to paint with us. They painted the home of seniors, Consuelo and Angel, who live in the Corona Palms mobile home park.  They purchased the home about 18 months ago and cannot afford to paint it because Social Security […]

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