AUSTIN HABITAT & HYP NEED YOUR HELP SECURING IN-KIND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS OR LABOR. . . .

. . .AND OF COURSE, CASH SPONSORS ARE ALWAYS NICE...A LITTLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY

Austin Habitat for Humanity’s HYP group (Habitat Young Professionals) has raised approximately $40,000 of a $60,000 goal to build the 2009 HYP House (the 2^nd HYP House in the history of Habitat for Humanity-the 1^st was also an Austin HYP venture completed last fall). In partnership with sponsor TruWest Credit Union, this house will be an extra-special milestone, as it will also be Austin Habitat’s first-ever LEED-H certified green home. The build will begin in late summer 2009. Austin Habitat is inviting community partners to contribute to the balance needed to reach the build’s goal of $60,000. We are so close… and you can help us to get there! Contributions of cash are welcome, but we are also extending an invitation to members of Austin’s celebrated construction industry to participate as partners in the project. All In-Kind partners will be acknowledged as a sponsor of this milestone home for Austin Habitat, regularly acknowledged as a national leader in the construction and design of sustainable, green, affordable homes. Opportunities to participate in HYP House builds included.

Cash sponsors are fantastic, but equally valued are In-Kind donations of materials and/or labor for which are greatest needs are as follows:

- Foundation (materials and labor)

- Electrical (materials and labor)

- Plumbing (materials and labor)

- HVAC (materials and labor)

- Insulation (materials)

- Drywall (materials)

- Driveway/sidewalk (materials)

So say you want to help… but you don’t have lots of cash… and you don’t have access to construction materials. All you really need is the desire to help HYP Change Lives. We have created a brief fundraising guide [attached!] designed to give an office, an organization, a church group or just a group of friends some simple ways to raise money for Austin Habitat and HYP. The little bits add up… $20 per person in a 60-person office will pay for the insulation in the HYP House.

IN SUMMARY, HERE ARE THREE WAYS TO HELP CHANGE LIVES

1. GIVE gift a cash gift here - every little bit helps. Choose "HYP Build 2009" in the drop down menu

2. MOTIVATE get your office or organization to help sponsor the house through one of the simple attached fundraising suggestions

3. CONNECT put us in touch with your In-Kind materials or labor contacts (home builders, contractors, retail establishments, etc)

Please contact Brooke Rogers or Julie Smith with Austin Habitat – jasmith@ahfh.org / 512.472.8788 x 417 with questions or interest.

Thank you.

Brooke Rogers

2009 HYP Chair

512.695.6926

AustinHYP@gmail.com