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Thank you for making
AAIM's 2008 Hope Awards
a successful and uplifting event! 
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
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Hands on Housing
Bluebonnet Spring Blitz!
 Saturday,
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
  
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CROP Walk for Hunger 2008
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
   
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AAIM Announces
New CEO!
AAIM is proud to
announce its new Chief
 Executive
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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