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11/08/14: Kaiser Permanente Makes A Huge Impact at Rancho Caballero!
Saturday November 8th marked a landmark day for Habitat for Humanity Riverside and A Brush With Kindness. In the usual five hour timespan, Kaiser Permanente’s outstanding turnout of over 50 volunteers painted a total of five homes! Homeowner’s Velma, Elvira, Carol-Lynn, Peggy, and Wilma from Rancho Caballero Mobile Home Park were all unable to refurbish […]
11/8/14: Raising Walls in Riverside!
After two Saturdays in a row of raising walls on 8 homes in Moreno Valley we thought we would take a nice long break. On Saturday, November 1st,we all slept in and relaxed, but by next Saturday, November 8th, we were back to work! Staff arrived at the site on the corner of 11th and Ottawa in […]
10/25/14: Two Homes, Dozens of Smiles!
On Saturday October 25th, several volunteers from the University of California Riverside and New Beginnings Christian Church teamed up with Habitat for Humanity Riverside in A Brush With Kindness to paint what turned out to be a speedy project in the Old Plantation mobile home park! Carol, the sweet 64 year old women, and her son […]
10/25/14: Discovery Church Raises Walls on 4 Roberts Way Homes
What an exciting day I had today. It was a continuation of the work we did on October 18, 2014 where we raised the walls on four homes. We came back on October 25, 2014 and volunteers from Discovery Church raised the walls on four more homes along with future Habitat home owners. Let me […]
10/18/14: UCR’s Habitat for Humanity Chapter Lends a Hand
On Saturday October 18, the University of California Riverside’s Habit for Humanity Chapter volunteered to help with Habitat for Humanity Riverside in A Brush With Kindness. One home in the Villa Magnolia mobile home park was due in for a new paint job, however, the homeowner was on a fixed income was not in any […]
10/14/14: ABWK and Defender Direct Finished in Record Time!
Riverside based Defender Direct volunteers helped paint this past Tuesday in Old Plantation mobile home park, finishing the paint day in record time! This home belonged to a single monther and her 1-year-old son Mathew. The home was a dark blue, and the homeowner would always tell everyone when giving directions, “It’s the ugly blue house on […]
10/11/14: A Fresh Start with Ramona HS’s Habitat Chapter
Ramona High School, one of our long time Habitat Chapters, came out to spend a Saturday morning with us in order to help Victor, a senior citizen, at Riverside Country Club Mobile Home Park. The Riverside Country Club MHP notified us to see if we could help Victor out with his home. Before we got […]
9/20/14: Rancho Community Church Paints!
We had forty-two volunteers this last weekend for our “Brush with Kindness” event. It was a nice, cloudy September morning with some members of the Rancho Community Church congregation in Temecula. We were blessed that so many felt compelled to make the trip. The work was completed really fast with so many eager hands. As one volunteer put it, there’s nothing quicker and better […]
9/17 & 9/20: UCR Int. Stu., Rancho Community Church and more volunteers
This ‘Brush with Kindness’ mobile home event took two days to complete; one morning with our UCR, Japanese international student volunteers, and the second morning with independent volunteers, many from Rancho Community Church. Both groups did a great job painting and the house looked magnificent afterwards. This home belonged to a retired couple and they could not appreciate the work more. […]
9/15/14:Brush with Kindness with Stantec
Stantec, a multi-disciplinary company with architectural, engineering, and environmental expertise and over 14,000 employees in 230 locations throughout the world,’s Redlands’ branch was gracious enough to spend a Saturday with Habitat for Humanity “Brush with Kindness” in Riverside, painting a mobile home in dire need of a face lift. These workers were very hard working and we finished […]
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