The goal for the 2011 Year-End Fund raising campaign is $500,000.

A handful of organizations will match dollar-for-dollar each donation up to $100,000. The secure link to pledge any donation is as follows

https://ssl.charityweb.net/ewbusa/yearend.htm

We want to have the highest number of contributors from all the chapters in the US. Come! Join us in the effort to help more communities in need around the world.

A more detailed description of what our chapter does can be found in the Holiday Letter from the chapter’s co-presidents.

CH2M Hill has announced their 2nd Annual EWB Scholarship program. It’s a $5000 scholarship open to students involved in EWB. More information about it can be found at the following link. 

Come join us for Community by Design: (re) Building Community, a dynamic collaborative event showcasing locally based non-profit design efforts.  The event is free and open to the public. Donations at the door to benefit the Central Texas  Wildfire Relief efforts. There will be a raffle for door prizes.

Presenters include:
Women.Design.Build
EcoRise Youth Innovations
Partnership for a Sustainable World
Architects Without Borders – Austin
Latinos in Architecture
Design Voice
Engineers Without Borders – Austin
Austin Community Design and Development Center
Rainforest Partnership

The event is shared on our EWB Greater Austing FB page. You can access the FB event here. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231308973590551).  Please share the event with others.

Here are the Details:

Event Title: Community x Design: (re)Building Community
Location: Treehouse  4477 S. Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX 78745
Date: November 3rd, 2011Time:7pm – 9pm (doors open 6pm)
Free and open to the public

The design charrette is being held in association with a symposium with with the “Universidad de Albert Einstein” (UAE) from Mexico City and facilitated through the UT Latin American Studies and Planning Departments. The purpose of the symposium is to help UAE’s faculty and administrators develop a curriculum centered on sustainability and peace education, and at the same time integrate this into an overall planning concept for the University that ties together green strategies for the campus and engages the local community. Design Charette is scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd, 6-9:00PM at UT’s Goldsmith Hall (School of Architecture Building) Directors and faculty members from UAE will participate alongside faculty members from UT Austin.

The following guests/groups have been invited to assist in the discussion:
· Dick Peterson – Rainwater · John Umphress – Micro hydro generation
· Patrica Michael & Dick Pierce- Permaculture · Travis Glenn, Laine Hardy, Ropert Gaspard- Climate Profile
· AIA Austin’s Committee on the Environment (Heidi Kasper AIA, Co-chair)
· AIA Austin’s Latinos in Architecture Committee (Jaime Palomo AIA, Chair)

People with knowledge and experience in any of the following areas are encouraged to attend and participate:
* Permaculture * Transportation design * Daylighting * Campus design