Scott Holden, Senior Relationship Manager at First Republic Bank; Dawn Holden, VP, Branch Manager, Sterling Bank Home Loans and Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East board member King and Queen of the night
Portland, October 4th, 2013. Over 300 people gathered at The Nines Hotel for Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East’s Hard Hat & Black Tie Dinner and auction. This was the third year of this fun event, where movers and shakers around the Portland area get to dress up in their finest construction attire to raise money for homebuilding. Scott Holden from First Republic Bank and Dawn Holden from Sterling Bank Home Loans were King and Queen of the night. Habitat creates successful homeownership by partnering hardworking, local families in need with the community to build healthy, affordable homes. This event, emceed by KGW’s Reggie Aqui, raised over $176,000. (photo credit, Sarah Galbraith)
Paul George, Attorney at Lane Powell and Habitat for Humanity
Portland/Metro East Board Chair toasts at VIP reception
Susie Vischer, Former Habitat for Humanity board memeber and long time
volunteer, and Sandra Casillas Future Habitat Homeowner show off their
outfits made from construction material
Tom Kelly, Owner of Neil Kelly; Mark Waller, Owner of Bridgeworks
Capital; Steve Messinetti, President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity
Portland/Metro East
Many of those who attend are the also involved in the hands on building of homes for low income families.
From Habitat for Humanity:
Every day in Multnomah County and northern Clackamas County, low-income, hardworking families struggle to find affordable places to live. Rapidly rising rents force these families to live in unsafe, unhealthy, and crowded conditions. These families often have to move once or twice a year in search of rents that stay within their reach. Because of this, children transfer from school to school, affecting their learning and their self-esteem.
The American dream of homeownership is seen as simply unattainable, due to the skyrocketing cost of home prices and little change in incomes of hardworking families.
Our mission of working with the community to build simple, healthy, affordable homes with and for these families has resulted in over 200 families permanently escaping poverty housing. We believe in this mission, because we have seen first-hand how affordable homeownership impacts families, children, and communities.
You can submit a pie, or several, to the contest to be judged by professional Portland area bakers and have a chance to win some sweet prizes! If you are more akin to pie consumption than production, you can just show up and sample from a bounty of delicious pies for a small donation! All proceeds from the event will go directly to building an affordable home in partnership with a local family. In addition, this year there will be a costume contest for kids and a Pie-walk for those that are feeling lucky!
Register to enter the pie contest: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/womenbuildpieoff
Contact Tor Ostrom at tor@habitatportlandmetro.org or 503-287-9529 x12 for more information.
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