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Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc. |
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Welcome to our web site.
We are an Austin based IRS approved 501(c)(3) corporation.
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| Oak Hill Wildfire Fundraiser |
To email Eli Apolzon, click to the right: |
eli4@sbcglobal.net |
To see the KVUE 10 o'clock News video televised on Good Friday, April 22, 2011, click on the link below. The interview is with Eli Apolzon and two uninsured families whose homes were destroyed in the wildfire. They are two of the families we are raising funds for. They ask for your HELP.
As I mentioned in my letter dated April 19, 2011, to our Mayor, Lee Leffingwell, and our City Manager, Marc Ott, "Our goal will be to put everyone back to the financial situation they were in before the fire as opposed to giving everyone an equal amount of money."
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| Click HERE!! Watch the KVUE interview. Ten O'clock news ::: Good Friday, 2011. |
| : : : : : : We've Made It Easy and Safe to Give : : : : : : |
| Make a FIVE or TEN dollar donation in person ::: Go to any Wells Fargo Bank in the entire State of Texas. Use the Drive-in Window (or Lobby inside). ::: Hand them the cash . . . or even a bucket of all your change . . . and say, "This is for the Oak Hill Wildfire Fund. It is a savings account and the last four digits are 2708." The last four digits will insure it goes into the correct account.
You know your donation is SAFE and going to the right place, which is a special account in the name of "OAK HILL WILDFIRE FUND". We are NOT collecting money on street corners or in shopping malls. Wells Fargo Bank is the only place to donate. Thank you very much for any amount you are able to give, Eli Apolzon. |
| If you prefer to DONATE by US Mail, you can mail a check payable to OAK HILL WILDFIRE FUND to:Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc.
PO Box 164016
Austin, TX 78716. Donations under $50 do not need a receipt to take the tax deduction. However, if you would like a receipt, just tell us and we will send it to you in the mail, or by email if you prefer to receive it that way. |
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Oak Hill Wildfire Fundraiser: How you can help |
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If you live around Austin, you know about the destructive wildfire in the Oak Hill area on Sunday, April 17, 2011, which spread to over 100 acres, destroying at least EIGHT homes, badly DAMAGING another ten or more, and displacing several hundred area residents while our brave firefighters and Texas Forest Service planes fought and extinguished the horrific blaze.
And now, it is our turn. We, the gracious and sometimes "Weird" people of Austin, will jump in and do our part. Our non profit is focusing on raising funds for the rebuilding of two homes. The addresses are 7209 and 7317 Scenic Brook Drive. We are one of several groups raising funds to rebuild these two homes. Most of the labor for the tear down and cleanup has been provided by many volunteer workers. Dumpsters for the burned materials have also been donated by companies in that business. Reconstruction of the corner home at 7317 Scenic Brook began in August 2011 and all of those skills have also been generously provided by volunteer craftsmen in the various trades. Your donations will primarily be used to purchase the building materials and are very much appreciated. |
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Here's the PLAN: |
Our goal is to assist in raising funds to rebuild the homes of two Oak Hill residents. The wildfire consumed each of their homesteads on Sunday, April 17, 2011. We need the help of ALL Austin area residents to raise these funds. Yes, that means You. Just a small donation of ten dollars from 10,000 Austinites will add up to $100,000. And I know there's at least that many of us in Austin who can give five or ten dollars because I see most of you every day on MoPac slowly crossing over Lady Bird Lake at five in the afternoon still with enough energy to listen to Jeff Ward. Which reminds me, call in and ask Jeff to help us get the word out. He's connected. He's like "The Man!!" And it is "Our Little Show."
If you're in . . . scroll back up this page a few paragraphs and read how you can give a few dollars at any Wells Fargo Bank in the entire State of Texas. Thank you, Eli . . . |
Owner found his "sentimental value" items on a shelf in an unburned closet. | |
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Thanks Austin.
Help us and others involved
raise the funds needed to rebuild
two homes destroyed by the
April wildfire in Oak Hill. |
Notice metal garage door to the left. | |
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A September 2011 update:
As I sit here updating this website to tell of the progress in Oak Hill, the smell of smoke fills the air all around Austin as seemingly endless wildfires rage out of control in Bastrop, Smithville, Steiner Ranch, Spicewood, Leander and other areas nearby. Well over a thousand homes have been destroyed and lives are being lost. Help us with your donations quickly because very shortly we will need to focus on an even greater amount of rebuilding funds needed.
I ask for your prayers and gifts for well over a thousand victims.
Eli . . . .....
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Visitor Counter |
In memory of Vernon Hunter
:::: Two tours in Vietnam :::: |
You are visitor number:
Set to zero on February 26, 2010.
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Our Mission Statement
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To build and sell affordable homes below cost to qualified families and
disaster victim families. To provide loans for these families at a below market interest
rate, with special emphasis on families having children with Autism, Down Syndrome,
and other special needs. To assist qualified families with medical, therapy, and
recreational expenses for their Special Needs children. And to assist our
community (Austin and the surrounding area) in fundraising projects
which help families meet their affordable living expenses.
We also place special emphasis and high priority on assisting military families of
fallen soldiers serving our country. Homes built for these families can be given to them
debt free when we are able to raise the funds to fully pay for a home. ::: END :::
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Here is a summary of information about us: |
Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc., is a charitable corporation qualified by Internal Revenue Service under sec. 501 (c) (3) .Our mailing address is: PO Box 164016 . Austin, Texas 78716. Our contact information is: Eli Apolzon, President. Our email is: eli4@sbcglobal.net . You can call us at: 512.347.7364. Our fax line is: 512.306.1506. We last updated this information on Thursday, May 19, 2011. A related website is www.eliapolzon.com which is dedicated to Ruth Apolzon, the daughter of Eli and Kerri Apolzon. Thank you for visiting our web site at Lutherans Online.
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::CLICK HERE:: to visit our website dedicated to Ruth Apolzon, the daughter of Eli and Kerri Apolzon. |
| For our current fundraiser to help the victims of the Oak Hill wildfire on April 17, 2011, we have registered www.OakHillWildfire.com and www.OakHillWildfire.org . You can help us get the word out by sending this information to just ten of your friends. We want the news, not the fire, to spread like wildfire. Thank you, EliThanks for stopping by to see how you can give to the Oak Hill Wildfire Fund and how your dollars will be used. Eli . . . |
| The name of this website is Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc.
We use several domain names. Pick one you like and it will get you here: www.HelpUsBuildHomes.org . www.WeBuildHomes.org . www.AustinRoses.org . www.TexasRoses.org . www.FlowersBuildHomes.com . www.SendaDollarBill.com . www.MailaDollarBill.com . www.PartnersInAffordableLiving.com . and www.AustinAffordableHousing.com . None of these names are case sensitive.
In Honor of our Vernon Hunter Memorial Fund, we have registered www.VernonIRS.com and www.VernonHunterMemorial.com . Those pages are currently inactive to the General Public. Let me know with an email if you need access to them. Eli ...
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A $4,000 College Fund for June 2011 Graduates |
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We ask for your donation to help us raise $4,000 to award eight scholarships to June 2011 high school graduates to further their education. The scholarships can be used to help with the cost of all types of further education, such as trade schools, colleges, vocational, and tech schools. Four scholarships in the amount of $500 each will be awarded to four May 2011 high school graduates selected by Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church and four scholarships in the amount of $500 each will be be awarded to four May 2011 high school graduates selected by Ebenezer Baptist Church. As these students are selected, we will give details of how they plan to further their education and the positive impact they hope to make on our community in the future.
Thank You for your support. Rev. Gaylon Clark, Senior Pastor of Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. Marvin Griffin, Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Eli Apolzon, CEO of Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc., all located in Austin, Texas. |
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Home Building Fund Raiser No. 32 |
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No. 32 is our first Fund Raiser for the year 2011. I have asked 100 friends to help get No. 32 started and now I am also inviting You to join us. Here is your CHALLENGE:
Send us a donation of a five or ten dollar bill {or check} by US mail. Then send this same note by mail or email to 100 of your close friends asking them to do the same thing. When You and ninety-nine other supporters have done the same thing, 10,000 people will have been contacted!!
Your dollars will build one house for a deserving family in Austin, Texas. And we will all have been Partners in building this house together. It’s that simple.
I will keep you advised of our progress on this website, which is www.HelpUsBuildHomes.org . Our contact information is at the bottom of this page.
Keep checking back to follow the progress of the dollars as they come in.
Thank you for your support and hard work. eli apolzon, president
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Thank you for Your "Vote" in the Recognize Good program. |
Click on the link below to Visit the Recognize Good website and learn how you can use their site to say "Thank You" to someone who has done a kind act, even if you do not know their name. Here is the link (below) to get you started:
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RecognizeGood®
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| | Memorial Fund in Honor of Vernon Hunter | by Eli Apolzon
| | In memory of and to honor Vernon Hunter, IRS employee, and in honor of all the IRS employees who work every day to implement the complicated income tax system which funds our Federal government and keeps our country the free enterprise system it is.We thank you, Vernon, for your service to our country,
one nation, under God. Your Fellow Americans
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Vernon Hunter |
Our goal is $250,000 as the initial fundraiser to honor Vernon Hunter. Austin can easily raise this amount of dollars . . . even if it is donated five dollars at a time from 50,000 Austinites. A major bank has agreed to accept and record the cash donations. In addition to each of your individual five and ten dollar donations, we will also be receiving support from Austin area businesses. This Memorial Fund is also to honor and support all the employees of our Internal Revenue Service and to recognize them for the fine work they do each day. Our nonprofit builds affordable homes and assists families with Special Needs children as you can read in our Mission Statement below. Then scroll down and click on the link to my personal website to learn about my personal commitment to help special needs children and their families.
Thank you, Eli Apolzon
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How Will the Funds be Used? |
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January 10, 2011: I am pleased to let the whole world know I have just received a phone call from one of Vernon's grandchildren who just recently learned about the scholarship funds we originated for his heirs who chose to accept it. The grandchild who called is making plans for their first year in college and shared with me how this fund is making their dream become a reality. Please send a donation as soon as possible, no matter how small, so we can get the funds to his grandchild as soon as possible so they can pay their tuition. Yes, we check everything out and make sure the funds are properly used. And then send an email for me to one hundred of your best friends and ask them also for a five or ten dollar donation to the Vernon Hunter Scholarship Fund.
Thank you for spreading the word. Eli Apolzon
The Trust will fund up to twenty educational scholarships each in the amount of $500 for the benefit of students attending Cedar Park and Austin area high schools, and up to twenty educational scholarships each in the amount of $500 for the benefit of high school graduates selected by Vernon Hunter's church, Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church, in Austin, Texas. These scholarships include trade schools also.
When you read our Mission Statement below, you will learn our primary focus includes building affordable homes for qualified families. The balance of the $250,000 (or greater amount) will be used for that purpose. I believe others across the country will also donate to the Vernon Hunter Memorial Fund. I am planning on being able to build at least two homes that will be marked as a Memorial to Vernon Hunter.
Donations by check can be mailed to PO Box 164016, Austin, Texas 78716 and can be made payable to Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc., with the words "Vernon Hunter Memorial Fund" mentioned any where on the check or on a note. We acknowledge all donations.
Thank you for your generosity, Eli Apolzon . . .
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"Remembering Vernon Hunter" by Matthew Wright |
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"Who is Vernon Hunter? I wouldn’t have known the answer to that question if it weren’t for a few dedicated writers. They decided to spotlight the real hero of last week’s domestic terrorist attack against an Austin IRS building. Vernon Hunter was from Orangeburg, South Carolina. He was a husband to Valerie. He was a father to Donald, Ken, and Christine. He was a step-father to Justin, Crystin, and Tara Jackson. He was a Vietnam veteran, who was employed at the IRS building at the time of the premeditated, cowardly attack of a terrorist."
. . . . . . . a partial excerpt from "Like The Dew: A Journal of Southern Culture"
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. . . . If you know a company or business that would sponsor a fund raiser to help provide
housing for an income challenged family, please connect us with them.
. . . . If you are part of a group raising funds to assist an Austin area family with a financial need,
you are welcome to raise the funds through our nonprofit with our assistance
in order to qualify the donations for income tax purposes.
Thank you, Eli Apolzon, President |
| | One of Our Fundraisers | | | 
Cody's new wheelchair arrived July 15, 2009 | One of our fund raisers is "Cody's Wheel Chair Fund" . We are raising $6,400 for a new wheel chair for Cody. We have raised about $5,000 of that amount. His new wheel chair arrived on July 15, 2009. Please consider a donation to this fund.To watch a video of Cody and read his story, click on the Recognize Good link below the wheel chair photo on the left. Cody is sometimes one of the featured videos in their Hall of Fame so you may see him on the opening page of Recognize Good. If not, type his name, Cody, into the search box. After watching his video, next enter eli (just those three letters) into the search box and you will see ten related entries about Cody and Tarrytown United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. |
Thank you for reading about Cody and Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc. :=: Eli Apolzon, President
| Click here to watch a video of Cody
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Our Business Plan |
We are an IRS approved nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation founded in July 2000. Our purpose is to provide housing in Austin, Texas for lower income families (including financially challenged families as a result of high medical expenses) at below market cost and to provide financing for these homes at below market interest rates. One of our broad goals is to develop programs that will “ . . . assist and provide relief for the poor, the distressed, the underprivileged, and families with special needs children”.If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to help with our Mission, you may make your check payable to Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc., and mail it to PO Box 164016, Austin, Texas 78716. Please include your name and mailing address with your donation so we can mail a "Thank You" and a receipt to you. Thank you for your generosity, Partners in Affordable Housing, Inc. Eli Apolzon, cpa
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