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Marybeth Beall starts as the Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Oregon this month

Marybeth H. Beall of Salem has been hired as Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Oregon. She replaces Patricia Day TenEyck of Portland who served as ED since 2005 before accepting a leadership position in November with the Police Activities League of Greater Portland.

A Salem resident for 32 years, Beall was born and raised in Eugene. She is a graduate of Oregon State University and earned a Master’s Degree in Community Health Education from the University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse.

Beall has served as Executive Director of the Marion Polk Medical Society; Easter Seals Children’s Therapy Center and was Division Director and Interim Administrator of Marion County Health Department. A recent breast cancer survivor, she is currently Director of the YWCA Women’s Health Program.

She is Past President of the Rotary Club of Salem; a member of the Board of Directors of the Physician’s Choice Foundation and has been a long time supporter of the Mid-Willamette Valley Habitat for Humanity affiliate. In 2008, Beall traveled to El Salvador on a Habitat for Humanity home building mission trip sponsored by Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Salem.

Beall begins with Habitat for Humanity Oregon in April and will relocate the state office from Portland to Salem where her duties include legislative advocacy in support of safe and affordable housing and home ownership.

Habitat for Humanity of Oregon provides advocacy and support for 33 independent Habitat affiliate offices throughout Oregon. Together, Habitat in Oregon is building a new foundation for thousands of hardworking Oregon families and forever changing the landscape of our communities, one home at a time.

“It is an honor and privilege to be leading an organization that does so much to promote individual and family self sufficiency and to improve housing standards and neighborhood livability in communities throughout Oregon,” says Beall.