Thanking our volunteer groups

Tis the season of giving thanks, and we want to offer a special thank you to the groups of volunteers that have assisted West Tuality Habitat for Humanity in 2024.

In this year, we have had volunteer groups that were made up of employees from different companies, members of various community groups and associations, and students from local schools.

In 2024, groups of corporate employee volunteers that assisted West Tuality Habitat with home repairs or neighborhood revitalization / cleanup events (Rock the Bock) came from:

• Amazon

• Excelitas Technologies Corp.

• First Community Credit Union

• First Tech Federal Credit Union

• Intel

• Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLS)

• Peterson Cat

• Siemens

• State Farm

• TheStandard Insurance

• Thrivent

• TTM Technologies, Inc.

• Wells Fargo

Our social media posts about these groups on Facebook and Instagram are tagged with #CSR, which stands for Corporate Social Responsibility. Many of these companies have had groups of employees coming to volunteer with us for several years.

Members of community groups that volunteered with us in 2024 included Forest Grove PEO, which decorates the ReStore for the holiday season each December, and the Rotary Club of Forest Grove, which helped at homeowner through our critical home repair program.

We also hosted groups of student volunteers from

• Catlin Gabel School, helping with neighborhood revitalization efforts.

• Pacific University Lacrosse Team, helping with neighborhood revitalization efforts.

• Forest Grove High School / Latinos in Action, helping at our annual Gala.

Our social media posts about these groups are tagged with #students
We also welcomed a Catholic youth group organized by Father Michael Vuky, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi church in Banks and Visitation Parish in Verboort, for neighborhood revitalization events.

All social media posts about these groups are also tagged with #volunteers as well. 

Would your group like to volunteer with West Tuality Habitat? Groups of volunteers can help us with:

• taking down and organizing in storage our holiday decorations in our ReStore in Forest Grove on a day in the last week of December.

• decorating our ReStore for July 4th, including highlighting items related to celebrating the USA, in mid June (or taking down these decorations and organizing them for storage after the holiday).

• helping to load ReStore customer purchases or helping to unload ReStore customer donations.

• helping at a Habitat construction site.

• helping at a neighborhood revitalization event.

• helping at a Habitat outreach event, like our Builder’s Breakfast or our annual gala.

Group volunteer events are two to four hours long and involve a lot of walking, lifting and arm movement. Financial donations from groups or sponsors can help us cover the costs of these organizing and hosting these events.

If you have a group that would like to volunteer with us, please contact volunteer@westtualityhabitat.org with the name of your group, approximately how many people will be in your group, and what days and times you would be available. Everyone on your volunteer team will be required to sign a volunteer liabiity waiver.

For more information about donating financially, volunteering or applying to be a program participant, visit the West Tuality Habitat for Humanity web site at www.westtualityhabitat.org or call (503) 359-8459. There is also information available at the Forest Grove ReStore at 3731 Pacific Avenue. 

To get updates about West Tuality Habitat events and volunteering opportunities, go to our volunteer page and sign up on the form at the bottom of the page, and/or follow us on Facebook and/or Instagram.