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From the Weyerhaeuser blog: In 2019 the Warrior Village Project, a nonprofit based in Southern California, reached out to our Giving Fund team hoping to get a one-time donation of building materials. The organization planned to use the materials to support its burgeoning program to teach San Diego-area high school students about construction trades through building affordable housing for unhoused veterans. What they got was even better. At the suggestion of our Giving Fund team, Warrior Village submitted an online grant application and received a $5,000 grant in 2019 and a $4,000 grant in 2020. Warrior Village volunteer Mark Pilcher was [...]

From the San Diego Union Tribune: “For those of you who figure out that maybe college isn’t what you want to pursue, there is a ton of opportunity outside of college,” said Richard Johnson, general manager at Action Air Conditioning, Heating & Solar. Johnson was speaking to about a dozen seniors from Twin Oaks and Mission Hills high schools who were gathered at Action’s San Marcos warehouse to get an up-close look at one of the many non-college career options available to them. The work site visit was part of the new Promise 360 program started this school year by the [...]

From ABC 10News: SAN MARCOS, Calif. (KGTV) - A North County non-profit called Wounded Warrior Homes opens a new home for female veterans who dealing with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries. When Mia Roseberry isn't organizing and restocking the food pantry at Wounded Warrior Homes in San Marcos, she's brainstorming how to help San Diego's veterans. "Just like any veteran; what do you need, what's your long-term plan, where are you stuck, what do you need help with,” Roseberry, Exec. Dir. & Co-Founder of Wounded Warrior Homes said. The non-profit's been helping male veterans for 11 years. Now, they've opened [...]

From CBS8: ESCONDIDO, Calif. — If you're interested in a 'Tiny Home', the event known as Tiny Fest is coming to the Del Mar Fairgrounds this weekend. In this Zevely Zone, I met a new generation of tiny home builders. I went to the Escondido campus of Urban Corps of San Diego County to see is their newly built tiny house. At 170 square feet, their home may be small but it's doing big things. Last year Urban Corps members started with a trailer on wheels and built a tiny home from the ground up. Ellen Stone paid for the entire [...]

Weyerhaeuser has been very generous with its support of the Warrior Village Project.  In addition to two cash grants from the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund totaling $9,000, Weyerhaeuser has donated house wrap and Hardie® Plank Lap Siding for our cottages.  The company also donated TimberTech deck boards, fascia and guard rails for our cottages in addition to deck boards, trim boards and molding to use as siding on the garden shed our students are building for the Agricultural Program at San Marcos High School.  Weyerhaeuser recently delivered two more pallets of materials for our program.  Thank you Lana Bru, Estevan Garcia, Timothy [...]

The Grainger Foundation was our first Sponsor, giving us a $5,000 grant to kick off our program at San Marcos High School.  In a demonstration of Grainger’s continuing support, Carlos Ramirez, the Manager of Grainger’s San Marcos store, sent me an email asking if we could use some tools, including a cordless DeWalt impact driver, a DeWalt drill, work gloves and utility knives.  The tools have found a home at Urban Corps new facility in Escondido, where young people working in Urban Corps’ Construction Services program can use them to build a Moveable Tiny House.  Thank you Grainger and Carlos for [...]

Unified Steel (formerly Boral Steel), owned by Westlake  Royal Roofing Solutions, a division of Westlake Royal Building Products, has a long and proud history of supporting the communities in which it operates.  Unified is committed to being a socially responsible and valued member of those communities and making a positive and sustainable contribution to their well-being.  Unified demonstrated this commitment by donating steel Stone Coated Roofing panels manufactured in its Oceanside, CA factory for our first cottage that we donated to Wounded Warrior Homes.  Unified recently donated another pallet of roofing panels for our second cottage.  Thank you United Steel!

From the North Coast Current: North County groups, schools partner to help homeless veterans When Mark Pilcher read an article about the current housing crisis, he didn’t think about it as a one-sided story. He considered other reports about the rising costs of building materials, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness, and the shortage of tradesmen. For the retired Fallbrook resident, it was an ah-ha moment. “I saw these things around the same time and said, ‘There’s a solution where we can address all these issues,’” he explains. As a result, he founded the Warrior Village Project, which aims to build [...]

Doug Williams of WillCalc helped architect Michael E. Robinson design our first cottage to comply with California’s Building Code energy standards.  When the cottage was completed, Doug recruited New Earth Energy Specialists, owned by Phil Ortiz, to inspect the cottage to make sure that it complied with these standards, a required step before a house can pass its final building inspection.  We are grateful to Phil and his colleagues for donating their inspection services.  Phil is well known for his community service.  In addition to operating a successful business, he is an active community volunteer and has served on the El [...]