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Community Service Accomplishments


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. Chaired by Kyle Brown, Milestone Management, this committee is the driving force behind the charitable activities of HAA.

The following is a list of some of the accomplishments of the HAA Community Relations Committee for 2007. If you are interested in participating in community service activities or projects, please contact Susan Hinkley at HAA, 713-595-0313 or shinkley@haaonline.org.

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Ronny Finger AlLStars Sports Challenge

Held for the first time in 2004, the event raises money for Lou Gehrig's disease research. More than 200 competitors and 30 volunteers participate in the event and help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). HAA has raised $50,000 for MDA during the event's four year history.

The 2007 event raised $15,000 to support research on ALS. Community Relations Committee member Michael Flores, was the driving force behind this event and says the inspiration comes from the 2003 softball tournament.

Pink Ladies Golf Outing

The 2007 outing included more than 70 foursomes of ladies out for a day of golf with 59 sponsoring companies raising a record-breaking $50,000 for the American Cancer Society and breast cancer research.


Kidney Walk

This year is the second year for HAA to participate in the walk.The Kidney Foundation of Southeast Texas Walk raises funds to support education and research to prevent kidney and urinary tract disease and to creat greater awareness about the need for organ donation. HAA members participate by forming teams to walk and by sponsoring the event. This year the event raised $116,000. The team raising the most money was HAA member, Concierge Asset Mgmt with $15,190 and in second place Orion Real Estate Services with $9,500.

Food Drive

December of 2007 was the 12th year HAA has participated in the annual Channel 13 Share Your Holidays food drive. HAA members donated more than 50,000 pounds of food and $1800.00 which according to the food bank buys 10,800 pounds of food. Many thanks to Camp Construction for allowing us to use their warehouse as a drop off location and then helping to deliver the food to the Houston Food Bank. Thanks also to the many volunteers who donate, pick up, drop off and pack the food.

MS 150 Bike Ride from Houston to Austin

The MS 150 Bike Ride supports those living with multiple sclerosis and raises money for research. HAA participated for the five year as part of the Houston Builders team. The team is sponsored by Direct Energy and volunteers from the Community Relations Committee help support the more than 50 riders. This year the HAA/Direct Energy team raised over $50,000 for the MS Society.

Children's Defense Fund

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.

CDF will strategically train HAA member apartment managers and owners about how the insurance programs work and how to help families apply for them. HAA will help CDF reach out to apartment community residents. CDF employees will attend events in 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.


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Charities

HAA and its members donate regularly their time and money to the American Red Cross, Houston Habitat for Humanity, Houston Food Bank, American Cancer Society, Kidney Foundation of Southeast Texas, Special Olympics and many other worthy 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 donate 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 sponsors several No Small Affair baseball outings every year, giving disadvantaged youth the opportunity to meet Houston Astros players and see a game in person.
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