Our Work

The Rebuilding Day Program

Rebuilding Days are a city-wide revitalization effort that engages volunteers and companies in Portland to provide repairs for homeowners who cannot do the work themselves. Repairs differ from house to house, but often include painting, carpentry, plumbing, weatherization, yard clean-up, debris removal, and more. Volunteers also complete renovations on nonprofit facilities and schools, allowing those organizations to direct their limited funds to their missions instead of maintenance.

Corporate Sponsors get a hands-on team-building experience for a group of employees and their family members to work together on a home or nonprofit rebuilding project – engaging their community and making a difference they can see!

After 30 years of bringing neighbors together, Portlanders are now living and working in safer, healthier, and brighter homes and community spaces! Nail by nail and block by block, volunteers become part of a community revitalization movement that is creating safe and healthy homes for some of Portland’s most vulnerable communities.

The Safe & Healthy Home Repair Program

Our Safe & Healthy Repair Program provides year-round repairs and modifications focused on increasing the health and safety of the homes of low-income homeowners in Portland. These projects include installing grab bars, raised toilet seats, handrails, and smoke and CO detectors. They can also involve repairing and rebuilding exterior rear stairways, minor electrical and plumbing work, and more. Our home repair services allow seniors to age in place, increases the mobility and independence of people with disabilities, and provides assurance to parents that their children are living in safe and healthy homes.

The Safe & Healthy Repair Program empowers long-time residents to remain in their communities as they age. While neighbors served benefit from increased home safety, research has also shown the immense community-wide value of this work as these long-time residents are empowered to age in place.