Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity!

Local Brunonians,

We're excited to announce that we have secured an upcoming Saturday for members of our group to join Habitat for Humanity to help a local veteran refurbish his residence.  Habitat is working with this individual through their program A Brush with Kindness.  This gentleman owns his home, but due to some physical limitations, he has been unable to maintain some parts of it.  That's where we come in!

Here are the details of the event: Number of Volunteers:  10-15 Date:  Saturday, May 5th, 2012 Time: Orientation begins promptly at 9am, break for lunch at 12pm (lunch will be provided courtesy of the Brown Club of Pittsburgh), and wrap up around 2:30-3pm Location: 1400 block of Marlboro Ave, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221

We continue to make an effort to provide a variety of events and especially ones where you can include family and loved ones.  So, please feel free to include those important to you in this event.  However, there will be a limited number of spots for this due to safety reasons, so please be considerate with how many people you would like to bring.  Also for safety reasons, individuals participating with Habitat events must be at least 16 years of age.

If you are available and would like to join with our group and Habitat to assist this local veteran, please respond to Molly Curran '05 at mollycurran@gmail.com and indicate how many volunteers you will be bringing, including yourself.  In addition, please indicate if you or others in your group are willing to work with the ladders and scaffolding to repair siding.

Not everyone in our group needs to be willing to do this, but we will need some.  No one will be asked to go higher than two stories.  Since this event has a limited number of spots, we will take responses on a first-come, first-served basis.  However, if there is a lot of interest in the event and if our partnership with Habitat works out well, we will work to plan additional volunteer days.  For future days, we will be keeping track of everyone who responds and will give priority to those individuals who may not be able to attend this event due to the limitation on group size.

Finally, if anyone would like to contribute to Habitat in conjunction with the Brown volunteers, please refer to the following information on donations.  All individuals donating to Habitat will receive a letter of thank you in the mail including a slip to retain about your donation for tax purposes.

Donations can be brought to the event or mailed to:
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh
212 Yost Boulevard, Suite A
Braddock Hills Shopping Center
Pittsburgh PA 15221-4818

Checks should be addressed to:
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh

You can include Brown Club of Pittsburgh in the Notes section if you would like to specify you are donating in conjunction with our volunteer event.

For additional information on Habitat and donating please refer to their site:
http://www.pittsburghhabitat.org/index.html


Thanks!
Jenny and Molly

Brown Club of Pittsburgh DUES
With the start of the new year, we'd also like to invite all alumni to pay $20 Dues (or any amount you are able to pay) to help fund the cost of events.  Checks for Dues may be made payable to the Brown Club of Pittsburgh and may be mailed to:

Rich Ting
6372 Monitor St.
Pittsburgh, PA  15217

Make checks payable to:
Brown Club of Pittsburgh

The more we collect in Dues, the higher the quality of events we will be able to provide!  Thank you to everyone who has contributed in the past and thank you to everyone who will contribute again this year!