The Houston Apartment Association provides services and volunteers for apartment-related community service projects. Promoting our efforts in the community leads to a positive public image for the association and its members. The Community Outreach Committee  members act on behalf of HAA to promote industry support for the projects, partnerships and programs undertaken as community outreach efforts. Any HAA member is welcome to participate in these efforts.  If you are interested in participating in community service activities or projects, please contact Susan Hinkley at 713-595-0313 or shinkley@haaonline.org or Aimee Arrington at 713-595-0302 or aarrington@haaonline.org       

2013 Event and Projects 

Got a lot of used keys?  

Valet Waste is hosting a ‘"Keycycling"drive!  Your used keys can help us raise money for the American Red Cross.   For more information, please email keycycling@valetwaste.com. 

We well hold a drawing for a "Big Green Egg" at the Sports Challenge May 10 for the person or property that donates the most keys thanks to our generous sponsor, Ferguson Enterprises.  A picture of the Big Green Egg  

Sports Challenge - May 10, 2013  For more details about this event, please click on this link   Sports Challenge 

Fun Run - June 8, 2013    

Grab the whole family and your running shoes! Join us for this Fun Run and Walk at the HAA offices. We will have a designated closed course within the Westway Park Business Park with both a 1K and 5k route.  Click here for a map of of the course.   

All proceeds for this event will benefit Camp Hope a housing project providing interim housing and services  to affected service men and women experiencing post traumatic stress.  For more details about Camp Home please view the video.  Camp Hope video  

Houston Food Bank Food Drive  November -December   

The drive officially starts November 1 each year.  HAA began our annual food drive in 1983 and has continued to help the food bank by asking properties as well as supplier companies to collect food for donation.  In 2012 we also began collecting food for pets.  If you would like to make a financial donation to these two great organizations please visit their websites at   The Houston Food Bank or  Rescue Bank for the pets.  

HAA and its members have donated regularly their time and money to a number of worth groups and causes.    Listed here are some of our past accomplishments:      

• Houston Apartment Association members pledged $45,000 and volunteered numerous man-hours to build a house during Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy Carter Work Project in June 1998. In 1997 and 1999, 125 HAA volunteers helped build homes on designated HAA Habitat Days.       
• In 1997, HAA co-sponsored with the city of Houston a new Preschoolers and Parents Water Safety Program designed for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their parents that involved hundreds of apartment families. Since 1998, several hundred HAA apartment communities have held HAA sponsored water safety seminars on-site, taught by American Red Cross and Save-A-Life/Prevent-A-Drowning instructors. In 1999, the number of drownings in Houston dropped by 50 percent.       
• HAA helped establish and continues to support the Houston/Harris County Furniture Bank, which collects and distributes donated furnishings to the homeless.       
• HAA members donated generously to the Leukemia Society ($30,000 annually) and other charities every year in organized fund-raisers.       
• HAA members helped the SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Alliance Houston raise more than $30,000 in 2000.       
• HAA sponsored several baseball outings every year, giving disadvantaged youth the opportunity to meet Houston Astros players and see a game in person.       
•  HAA is well positioned to reach out to families that live in Houston's apartment communities where many children who need the CHIP/Children's Medicaid programs live. HAA helped CDF reach out to apartment community residents. CDF employees attend events at  those communities and distribute information and applications, as well as talk directly with families who may qualify for the insurance programs. Visit www.cdftexas.org for more information.      
• HAA members participated in the The Kidney Foundation of Southeast Texas Walk raising funds to support education and research to prevent kidney and urinary tract disease and to create greater awareness about the need for organ donation. In 2009, the event raised $94,500 for the foundation with 1,717 walkers participating.