Volunteer Application

With your help, Habitat homeowners achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better home for themselves and their families. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Skilled and unskilled volunteers are needed. All construction volunteers must be 18+ years of age. All construction trades can help as you have time to volunteer. Dates and times vary, inquire and you can see the schedule and location where help is needed. Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho has been providing a hand up for Kootenai County families in need of decent, affordable housing since 1988.

A Brush With Kindness is a repair program through Habitat of Humanity for North Idaho that provides simple home repairs for low-income homeowners in Kootenai County. We work with families to identify the most important repair needs for their home. Some services may include house painting, yard cleanup, accessibility, critical repairs and weatherization. A Brush With Kindness is a volunteer-driven construction program, just like our home building program, and families must be willing to partner on the repair with “sweat equity.” We provide families with a hand up, not a hand out.

With your help we can keep our Administration staff working hard at their jobs. Needing a volunteer or volunteers to help clean the Admin. office weekly. This will include cleaning the glass windows and doors as needed, mopping the floors, cleaning the 3 bathrooms, small kitchen area and light dusting. Cleaning supplies will be provided. We are not a dirty office and we keep our areas pretty tidy. 

A set day and time is preferred. No Thursdays after 4pm. 

As a member of the Family Support Committee, you will work closely with a homeowner family to support them through their journey to homeownership. This can include:
• Support families as a partner and be an information source.
• Facilitate or provide homeowner training sessions.
• Revise tools and materials for supporting families, which may include the homeowner manual.
• Provide feedback to the Family Navigator regarding the effectiveness of current policies and procedures and an update on sweat-equity hours.
• Ensure that families understand and have opportunities to complete required sweat-equity hours.
• Assist families throughout the homeownership process (answering questions, helping with planning, and budgeting, recording sweat-equity hours, identifying other community resources, follow-up explanations of training workshop materials, and goal setting, etc.).
• Maintain an environment of appropriate confidentiality.

As a Hospitality volunteer, you will play a crucial role in supporting our construction volunteers by planning, purchasing, preparing, and serving lunch for up to 3-15 on average (up to 20 for special events) dedicated individuals who are helping to build homes for families in need. You will work closely with another volunteer to ensure that our hardworking construction team is well-fed and energized throughout the day. 

 Possible 1 Saturday a month and also various opportunities for weekdays for group builds and Women Build in May.

Assist with events and community booths throughout the year, including fundraisers and outreach events. Tasks can include staffing a booth at the county fair or similar events, and more! Help us get the word out about our programs, obtain new volunteers, and also spread the word about Habitat.  

Booths we do: Home & Garden Show, Post Falls Festival, Hayde Days, Rathdrum Days, North Idaho State Fair, Veterans Stand Down, Military Appreciation Day, Family Day in the Park, and more.

ReStore is Habitat for Humanity's home improvement store and donation center selling new and gently used furniture, appliances, home goods, building materials and more. You can help accomplish the Habitat mission by volunteering at ReStore. Tasks will vary, but may include shelving items, greeting and assisting customers, general housekeeping tasks, and special projects as needed.

Be on the planning committee for our annual and biggest fundraiser of the year. There are lots of ways to participate on this committee. We get sponsorships, collect donations, plan the theme of the event, plan the event, data entry into the auction website, sell tickets, etc. It's a fun way to volunteer.