Photo of the Week

Posted on September 16, 2011 by austinhabitat

The sun may be hot but at least it’s beautiful!  Another great picture of another great volunteer

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Photo of the Week

Posted on August 26, 2011 by austinhabitat

Forget the heat – check out those blue skies!  What a beautiful day for building homes and changing lives!

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Photo of the Week!

Posted on August 19, 2011 by austinhabitat

As a long-standing tradition at our house dedications, the new homeowner passes a hammer and offers words of encouragement to a family just entering our program.  Manuel Reyes and his daughter were excited to receive their hammer last weekend and can’t wait to start working on their own home!

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Five Who Care: Gerard Van de Werken

Posted on July 27, 2011 by austinhabitat

Without our wonderful and committed volunteer, in the office and on the job site, we would not be able to provide safe, decent, and most importantly affordable housing.

One such volunteer is Gerard Van de Werken. Gerard serves year after year as a volunteer construction crew leader and as an advocate at his church, West Lake UMC.  He has built more than 25 homes with Austin Habitat and continues to be a valuable asset to our construction department.  His hard work and dedication to our mission of home ownership was recently recognized by local news stations KVUE. Take a moment to watch the video.

Thanks Gerard!

KVUE Story

 

 

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Photo of the Week!

Posted on July 22, 2011 by austinhabitat

This weeks photo comes from the Fitness Challenge Build.  The folks at Crossfit Central have been hard at work both on the job site building and  off the job site raising money.  Saturday, July 23, will be the last day of the build. Check out the builds website and help your favorite Crossfit Coach meet their fundraising goal!

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Zilla Saver

Posted on July 1, 2011 by austinhabitat
ZillaSaver believes in the mission of Habitat For Humanity. And with your help, they’re donating up to $10,000 to our cause!
Just sign up for their daily deals emails and they’ll donate $5 on your behalf to the Austin affiliate of Habitat For Humanity. It really is that easy to change lives here in Austin.
For every person who signs up from now until the end of August, they’ll make another $5 donation. So let your friends and family know about this campaign and help them reach their goal of a full $10,000 donation to Austin Habitat For Humanity.

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Ashley Furniture to Benefit Austin Habitat

Posted on June 30, 2011 by austinhabitat

Have you been thinking about remodeling? Updating that old coach and uncomfortable recliner?

Friday July 1, Ashley Furniture is taking donations for Austin Habitat.  When you donate $15 dollars you will receive 20% off of your purchase + 12 months zero interest. What a deal!

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Photo of the Week!

Posted on June 16, 2011 by austinhabitat

The first two weekends of the 2011 HYP Build the fine folks from Samsung have provided the volunteers. Coupled with their donated labor, Samsung has made a generous financial gift to this build. Take a look at their fine work.

Samsung Volunteers

Samsung Volunteers

Photo Credit: In-Young Kim

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Legal Community to Dedicate Home!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by austinhabitat
 Austin Habitat and Austin Bar dedicate its latest partnership home

AUSTIN, Texas (June 10, 2011) - Legal Build — the Austin Bar Association and Austin Habitat for Humanity partnership – celebrates a milestone by dedicating a home for Manuel Jaimes and his family this week.

The Legal Build Committee and Austin Habitat for Humanity will dedicate the home on Saturday, June 11, at 3:00 p.m. at 7214 Thanas Way.  Mr. Jaimes – a single father of a young daughter – has worked hard: applying for a Habitat home, putting in the required hours of sweat equity, taking the classes required of all Habitat homeowners, and signing the mortgage papers requiring him to pay Habitat for their home.

This is sure to be a memorable occasion for Mr. Jaimes and his family, as well as the members of Austin’s legal community, as it will forever change the life of a local family that has worked long and hard to get out of substandard housing. Although every house Habitat builds is special, this event signifies the continued strong collaboration between the Austin Bar and Austin Habitat.

Every two years, Austin’s legal community comes together to provide a tangible benefit to an Austin family and is just one of the ways that the Austin legal community gives back to the vibrant city its members call home.  Jessica Mangrum, a partner at Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, co-chaired the 2011 Legal Build effort.  Underscoring the contributions of the legal community, Mangrum, who has served in other leadership roles with the Bar’s community service organizations, notes, “The Austin legal community has been a consistent supporter of affordable housing issues and Austin Habitat for Humanity’s mission to end poverty housing via home ownership.”

Mishell Kneeland, an Assistant Attorney General and realtor with Moxie Realty Group, who was also homeless as a child and co-chaired this year’s biennial effort, agrees that home ownership opens many doors, “The benefits that a family obtains from home ownership extend beyond a simple roof over their heads. A home changes everything. This is one way for the legal community’s actions to speak in ways that words cannot,” Kneeland says.

Mangrum says that this opportunity for the Austin Bar to work with Austin Habitat is a win-win situation for all involved.  “So many of us were there the day the walls on Manuel’s home were raised – it will be amazing to see him ready to move into his home.”

Many legal organizations gave time and money to help build this home.  Among Legal Build’s major contributors this year were The Austin Bar Foundation; Popp, Gray & Hutcheson, LLP; Cantilo & Bennett, L.L.P.;  Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P.;  Baker Botts, L.L.P; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody; Haynes and Boone; Hunton & Williams; McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P.; Scott, Douglas & McConnico;  U.S. Legal Support,Inc. Together, the Austin Bar and Austin Habitat continue to change lives, as they hope to continue doing in the future through the dynamic Legal Build partnership.
At a Glance
Who: The Austin Bar Association and Austin Habitat for Humanity
What: Legal Build 2011 Home Dedication
When: June 11, 2011, at 3:00 p.m.
Where: 7214 Thanna’s Way, Austin, TX
Contact: Mishell Kneeland, Mishell.kneeland@gmail.com, 965.5463 or Julie Smith, jasmith@ahfh.org, 472.8788, ext. 417

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Crawfish Boil

Posted on June 7, 2011 by austinhabitat

Is there a better way to hang out, eat good food, and raise money for affordable housing? I don’t think so!

This Saturday Crossfit Central is hosting a Crawfish Boil & Silent Auction to raise money for the Fitness Challenge House.  The auction will include acupuncture, massages and other bodywork donated by Austin’s finest practitioners.  Join them this Saturday, June 11th at 1:00 pm for all the crawfish you can handle.

Help Crossfit Central ensure the Romo family will have the home of their dreams by July 23rd.

Crawfish Boil & Silent Auction
Saturday, June 11th
Begins at 1:00pm

Contact Susan Bender at SusanBender@CrossfitCentral.com for more information.

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