tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46934091518547887602011-04-21T18:19:23.732-07:00Blackland Community Development Corporation is a neighborhood-based affordable housing nonprofit in Austin, Texas. We create and preserve rental housing for low-income and homeless families, individuals with disabilities and senior citizens. We recently completed work on a Solar Duplex that collects solar energy from one house and shares it with another. Now we're working on our next phase...Blackland Community Development Corporationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858225343952376937noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4693409151854788760.post-15414177437902040642009-01-22T09:04:00.000-08:002009-01-23T08:44:16.431-08:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi9nRTwFZI/AAAAAAAAACM/SEq5J7Lry3I/s1600-h/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%2520Curt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294189844332811666" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi9nRTwFZI/AAAAAAAAACM/SEq5J7Lry3I/s320/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%2520Curt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;">Responding to President Obama's call for a National Day of Public<br />Service to honor MLK Day, 33 volunteers gathered at the Blackland<br />communities Stewart Conservatory and put in raised-bed gardens and<br />worked to remodel the house built in 1937.<br />Approximately 150 hours of labor were donated. Home Depot gave a 50<br />percent discount for materials for the project that amounted to a $500<br />donation.<br />A hearty lunch was prepared by Karin Faltynek that featured beef<br />cabbage rolls, lentils and sausage, several vegetarian dishes, and<br />cobbler. After lunch, the group toured several other housing projects<br />in the neighborhood.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7K9Fc7fI/AAAAAAAAACE/bMcmAz0OZYY/s1600-h/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%252012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294187158844534258" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7K9Fc7fI/AAAAAAAAACE/bMcmAz0OZYY/s320/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%252012.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7Kc8ZeHI/AAAAAAAAAB8/zUADC2Kc5es/s1600-h/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%2520Curt.jpg"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7Kc8ZeHI/AAAAAAAAAB8/zUADC2Kc5es/s1600-h/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day,%2520Curt.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7KItbI9I/AAAAAAAAAB0/6LGn3mXM--U/s1600-h/P1020320_edited.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294187144785109970" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7KItbI9I/AAAAAAAAAB0/6LGn3mXM--U/s320/P1020320_edited.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7J2_KS_I/AAAAAAAAABs/KNR5ftYG0Xo/s1600-h/P1020300_edited.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294187140027665394" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7J2_KS_I/AAAAAAAAABs/KNR5ftYG0Xo/s320/P1020300_edited.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7Js8V22I/AAAAAAAAABk/btTiX92beow/s1600-h/Vols,+Jan.+17,+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294187137331485538" style="WIDTH: 243px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXi7Js8V22I/AAAAAAAAABk/btTiX92beow/s320/Vols,+Jan.+17,+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXisenJj4LI/AAAAAAAAAA0/EHNfO3I57mc/s1600-h/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day%25207.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294171003879153842" style="WIDTH: 142px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXisenJj4LI/AAAAAAAAAA0/EHNfO3I57mc/s200/Vols,%2520MLK%2520Day%25207.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXiseZt1a5I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qLYKWx97zss/s1600-h/Vols,+Jan.+17,+09+041.jpg"></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXiseLoFZhI/AAAAAAAAAAc/bq7DeQanU8Y/s1600-h/P1020302_edited.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294170996490987026" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SXiseLoFZhI/AAAAAAAAAAc/bq7DeQanU8Y/s200/P1020302_edited.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4693409151854788760-1541417743790204064?l=blacklandjourneys.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Blackland Community Development Corporationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858225343952376937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4693409151854788760.post-35403844962625809582008-12-21T19:39:00.000-08:002008-12-21T20:52:46.198-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SU8cdGw4ryI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CgO1XVMtFVs/s1600-h/LuisBoJohnnieMarva1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WR5q6kre5E0/SU8cdGw4ryI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CgO1XVMtFVs/s320/LuisBoJohnnieMarva1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282472174286319394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Stay tuned for blogging to come about work on our projects! This photo shows work being done by our board president, Bo McCarver, and volunteers from the neighborhood on the Stewart Community Arts Conservatory (to be).<br /><br />To learn more about life in the Solar House, visit Stephanie and Adam's blog at <a href="http://solarandhardenduplex.blogspot.com/">solarandhardenduplex.blogspot.com/</a>.<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4693409151854788760-3540384496262580958?l=blacklandjourneys.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Blackland Community Development Corporationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858225343952376937noreply@blogger.com0