The N The Numbers Podcast: Season 2: Episode 5: Pat Daniels and Constructing Hope

Thank you for joining us for the latest episode of The N The Numbers Podcast. We welcome Pat Daniels to the show. Pat is the Executive Director of Constructing Hope, a construction pre-apprenticeship program located in Portland. This is an episode you will not want to miss. 

 

About Constructing Hope

Irvington Covenant Church members saw firsthand the negative effects that gentrification and dwindling housing affordability had on its members, neighbors, and especially the large minority population in North/Northeast Portland.  To address these concerns, church members created Irvington Covenant Community Development Corporation (ICCDC) in 1995.

The organization built and sold 11 homes in Northeast Portland, to provide low-to-middle income families with decent housing, plus provide hands-on construction experience for participants in the organization’s Constructing Hope Training Program.As the housing industry changed, ICCDC focused on the Constructing Hope Training Program and targeted people coming from incarceration and people with a legal history, to empower them to get a clean start as productive, self-sufficient members of the community.

In 2007, the program was approved by the Bureau of Labor and Industries as a state-certified pre-apprenticeship program. In 2010, the Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program became an independent non-profit organization separate from ICCDC. 

Visit their website at https://www.constructinghope.org/