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AAIM Partner Spotlight:

Congregation Agudas Achim

Congregation Aguda Achim

Upcoming Event:

Delegate Assembly - May 20th


Thank you for making AAIM's 2008 Hope Awards
a successful and uplifting event! Hope Awards 2008

We especially thank our sponsors, our volunteers, our auction item donors, St. David's Church for hosting and accommodating us, Sara Hickman for leading us in song and moving us to laughter and tears, Dr. Patricia Hayes for emcee-ing the event (and sharing her own brand of humor!), Tom Spencer for his inspiring reflections and lively auctioneering, Joyce Beck for her words of welcome; our Hope Award Committee - Felora Derakhshani, who led us in prayer, Nahid Khataw who beautified our tables and stage, and Cathy Casey, who helped publicize the event; our Hope Award presenters, Sarah Currie and Lynda Lieberman Baker; our Hope Award Honorees, Rabbi Steven Folberg, Congregation Beth Israel, and the United Methodist Women of the Austin District; and all of you who attended and contributed to our event.

We would like to recognize the following businesses and individuals who made tremendous financial and in-kind donations to AAIM's 2008 Hope Awards:

Essence of Austin:
The Crossings/Joyce & Ken Beck

Spirit of AAIM:
Randy & Shelley Ziehe, Patricia & Robert Ayres

Hope of AAIM:
Enviromedia Social Marketing, GSD&M Idea City, Rev. Bill Young & Blake Grugett, Temple Beth Shalom, Experience Bangladesh, Bill & Stephanie Whitehurst, Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Fred & Dawn Lewis, Fetzer Institute, Agudas Achim

Partner of AAIM:
Koros & Felora Derakhshani, Greenblum Investment Co./Gary Greenblum, Aloysius Mok & Amy Wong Mok, Deepak & Sushma Burman, Ray & Karen Brimble/One Skye Foundation, Meeting Solution/Lynda Lieberman Baker & Rabbi Kerry Baker, Bill & Lib Harris, Mike & Ginger Blair, Ali & Nahid Khataw of Encotech Engineering Consultants, Janis & David Claflin, Jan Soifer & Pat O'Connell, Robert & Dorothy Rutishauser, Emilee Whitehurst

In-Kind Sponsors:
Texas Monthly, Sara Hickman, Lance Schriner, Tom Spencer & Victor Martinez, Wildseed Farms, St. David's Episcopal Church, One Skye Foundation, Nahid Khataw

Hands on Housing Bluebonnet Spring Blitz!

Hands on HousingSaturday, April 26th, 2008
Sunday, May 4th, 2008


Hands on Housing has received an overwhelming commitment of volunteer support for this year's Spring Blitz -- thank you so much in advance!!  In fact, we have reached volunteer capacity for the home renovation efforts we have planned.  

However, we are still accepting volunteers in the following areas:
If you are a business that is interested in sponsoring our repair efforts please contact Kathy Weiner (kweiner@aaimaustin.org). Volunteer groups contact Kathy Weiner as well.

Over 300 volunteers gathered for our Annual Hands on Housing Fall Event. We concentrated our efforts on 12 homes with the goal of restoring dignity, safety, and hope to low-income homeowners. We would like to thank the following organizations and businesses for their participation in Hands on Housing 2007:

Austin Rental Way
First American Flood Data Services
Project Management Institute
Church of the Savior Church
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Grace United Methodist Church
Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church
St. Martins Lutheran Church
University Methodist Church
Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church
Austin Junior Forum
Harmony High School
Architectural Engineering Institute of UT
University of Texas Blazers
University of Texas Omega Delta Phi
Boy Scouts of America
Longhorn Outreach

KXAN NewsFirst AmericanAmerigroup Corp.

CROP Walk for Hunger 2008

CROP Walk Logo

Thank you everyone who participated in the CROP Walk -- walkers, volunteers, staff, performers, and our many sponsors and individual contributers!  YOU made this year yet another big success.  

Check back soon for photos of the event.  If you have a special photo or story you'd like to share with us, please email us or give us a call.  

Many thanks again!

Amy Prichard Tutt
CROP Hunger Walk Recruiter and Event Coordinator
Austin Area Interreligious Ministries
atutt@aaimaustin.org
(512) 386-9145



AAIM  Announces  New CEO!

AAIM is proud to announce its new Chief
Tom SpencerExecutive Officer, Austin's very own Tom
Spencer


Known by many as the "Texas Gardener" on
KLRU, Tom has led a professional life as
colorful and diverse as his gardens.  Over the
past 25 years his roles have included executive
producer, radio host, author, landscape designer,
photographer, and creator of the critically
acclaimed gardening website,
www.soulofthegarden.com.

As a person, Tom exudes a Zen-like calm and a contagious gusto for reflection and dialogue.  We are inspired to have him join AAIM, planting new seeds of hope and helping us continue to grow!


AAIM's Annual Meeting
Those who attended our Annual Meeting on January 31st will surely agree: hearing Dr. Cain Hope Felder speak and the Huston-Tillotson University Choir sing was a truly inspiring event.  One attendee was so kind as to record the second tune performed by the choir, a lively a capella piece entitled, "I'll stand" (Raymond Wise, 1961). See below.

Many thanks go out to Dr. Cain Hope Felder, Rev. Don Brewington,
the Huston-Tillotson University Choir, students from the Huston-Tillotson Campus Ministry, and the Huston-Tillotson staff for making this a wonderful event!

(Click here to view video if you do not see a window below.  You will be re-directed to the Photobucket website.)





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