upcoming events

Habitat University: All About Drywall! Saturday, November 9: Want a taste of what volunteering on a Habitat for Humanity construction site is like? Are you nervous about working with hand and power tools? Want to get to know some of the Habitat staff and lead volunteers you would work with if you volunteer on a construction site? Want to learn skills that not only can help Habitat families, but can also help you around your own home? Join us for our next Habitat University: All About Drywall! Saturday, November 9 at 9 a.m. at the Forest Grove ReStore. Details about this next Habitat University event here.

Coming soon: Our annual holiday concert, Saturday, December 7! Save the date!

Past Events:

Annual West Tuality Habitat Volunteer Recognition Even Returns!: For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, West Tuality Habitat held a dinner event to honor its volunteers, recognizing two corporations who have had volunteers at our work sites multiple times in the last 12 months and awarding Presidential Service Awards (Gold level) to 21 volunteers. The event, held at the Forest Grove Senior & Community Center, also honored President Jimmy Carter, the most famous Habitat for Humanity volunteer and who recently celebrated his 100th birthday.

Large Turnout for Our 2024 Dream Builders Breakfast Encouraged to Manifest Values Into Community Action. Elected officials, people running for local office, representatives of various nonprofit and government programs, people working in construction, and other community members learned more about the impact of West Tuality Habitat for Humanity and were encouraged to put their faith and values into action to benefit their community at the 2024 Dream Builders Breakfast. There were also tributes to long-time West Tuality Habitat board member Richard Kidd. Read more about the event here.

Area Habitat family pays off their mortgage! Donaciano and Dora Dominguez , a local family that bought their first house through West Tuality Habitat for Humanity’s home ownership program in 2002, has paid off their mortgage and now owns their home outright. A celebration was held recently with the family, along with employees and volunteers from West Tuality Habitat and various local officials, friends and neighbors to rededicate the house and honor the family’s achievement. Read more about the home rededication here.

2024 Women Build Event Wows Participants: The West Tuality Habitat for Humanity Women Build 2024 event drew 25 participants in late July, mostly women, all people who wanted to learn about basic home building and get their hands on basic construction tools they weren’t familiar with. Every year has had a different activity for participants, and this year, they learned to use drills and impact drivers, then used these tools and newfound knowledge to construct practice walls, and then real walls to be used in in the construction of a shed for one of West Tuality Habitat’s home owners. More about the women build and photos here.

Long wait for a home of their own is over for the Bautista Family: Home Dedication Held in Cornelius: West Tuality Habitat for Humanity held its second home dedication and move in celebration of 2024, this time for the Bautista Family in Cornelius, with about 40 people on hand for the event. Habitat volunteers will spend the next few days rapidly converting this house from three bedrooms to four bedrooms, to better accommodate the needs of the Bautista Family. More details about the Bautista home dedication, with photos!

VanLoo Home Dedication: Determination Wins the Day! On Sunday, June 2, West Tuality Habitat for Humanity held its first home dedication and move in celebration of 2024, for the VanLoo Family in Forest Grove, with about 60 people on hand for the event. "Through her diligence and constant improvement, she was approved for the program at last and is now our newest homeowner." Unlike most Habitat homes, this is not a stick-built home, built from scratch; this is a completely refurbished manufactured home. From start to finish, volunteers and staff members from West Tuality Habitat were able to acquire, rehabilitate and house the VanLoo family in just 90 days. One volunteer, Ron Zwart, who was at the house working almost every day, received a special award from Brian Martin, West Tuality Habitat’s Construction Manager: a symbolic golden trowel. Here’s complete details about the VanLoo home dedication, with photos!

Hearts for Habitat Spring Gala Dinner & Auction, April 27, 2024. At the Forest Grove Senior & Community Center. Attendees enjoyed delicious chef-created dinner, wine from a local estate, stories from our home building, home repair and affordable home advocacy efforts in Western Washington County, socialized with other Habitat supporters, and bid on terrific auction items at our 2024 Gala event. Funds raised mean we can do even more to help vulnerable families achieve home ownership and help seniors, people with disabilities, military veterans and others stay in their homes. More info about the Habitat Gala, including photos.

MLK Day of Service Event a Success! Our volunteer and awareness event in association with the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Holiday was a success - even though we had to delay until February! West Tuality Habitat was able to host volunteers on February 19, 2024 to teach participants how to use basic construction tools, learn about Habitat’s upcoming home-building activities in Western Washington County, apply new skills to constructing planter boxes that will be sold in the Forest Grove ReStore, and to talk about how Habitat for Humanity strives to work towards Dr. King’s vision of the “Beloved Community.” More info about our MLK Day of Service.

December 2, 2023: Annual Christmas music concert: At the United Church of Christ, 2032 College Way in Forest Grove. The annual concert takes place each year before Forest Grove's downtown Holiday Light Parade. The concert once again featured seasonal music by the Westside Singers, as well as an appearance by the Neil Armstrong Middle School choir. It was a full house this year!

Women’s Build, Saturday, October 7. One of our most popular events returned at West Tuality Habitat for Humanity after a pandemic hiatus and was a huge success! About 25 women turned out for the Women’s Build event in Forest Grove, Oregon to learn from West Tuality Habitat staff on how to use a variety of construction tools, then used those newfound skills to help two senior homeowners in the Quail Run Estates Mobile Home Park in Forest Grove. Photos from the event are at the bottom of this blog.

Dream Builder’s Breakfast, Tuesday, October 3. Community members gathered for a morning of inspirational stories, celebration and delicious food at the 2023 Dreambuilders Breakfast hosted by West Tuality Habitat for Humanity. The keynote address was by Rochelle Martin, executive director of Taste and See Local, a food bank that serves hundreds of clients every month in Forest Grove. The morning ended with a special presentation in honor of one of the affiliate's founding members, the late Glenn Cooper. Glenn's son Brian and his wife, Susan, who are core volunteers with West Tuality Habitat, helping with home construction and home repairs each week. Cooper’s Corner, another development in Forest Grove built by affiliate volunteers, is named in his honor. More information about the event here, including photos.

Thursday, September 14, 2023. Annual Golf Tournament benefiting West Tuality Habitat for Humanity. Sponsorship Opportunities Available! Don’t golf? You can come to just the BBQ?

Home Dedication, Sunday, August 13, 2023. Our last home dedication of 2023, in our now complete Kidd Court development in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Friday, July 28, 2023: Grand Opening of the Forest Grove ReStore Extension.

Saturday, April 29, 2023: West Tuality Habitat for Humanity Hearts for Habitat Spring Gala Dinner & Auction. Theme: Hope Grows Here! More information about the Gala.

April 13, 2023: Groundbreaking on Countryman Estates in Forest Grove, our most ambitious project to date.