Phase I of the Benton Habitat ReStore purchase has been completed! In Phase I, private foundation grants were awarded from the Ford Family Foundation, the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Spirit Mountain Foundation, the Paul G. Allen Foundation a Capital Campaign and community donors. Operational grants from the Department of Environmental Quality and the Benton County Commissioner's Host Surcharge Grant matched these purchase grants.  

We are now in the final stages of a Phase II purchase, which will secure our current inventory yards, administration office and future cornerstone training facility. Contingency challenges from the Meyer Memorial Trust and Fisher Trust spearhead an effort to acquire a remaining $450,000 in 2008. These grants are being matched by a new round of operational grants from the Department of Environmental Quality and the Benton County Commissoners.  With the completion of the Phase II purchase, Benton Habitat will have assured sustainability.  Consolidating our base of operations and securing the store site creates a sustainable funding source to support Benton Habitat's primary mission of providing affordable homes for hard-working, lower income famlies in Benton County, Oregon and a dynamic mentoring program that engages people from different backgrounds, ages, cultures, perspectives and creeds in the common mission to BUILD HOPE!