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.

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.

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.

Assist with events throughout the year, including fundraisers and outreach events. Tasks can include displaying items during a live auction, greeting and assisting guests, setting up and tearing down, staffing a booth at the fair or similar events, and more!