Blue Genie Art Industries has enjoyed a long and storied friendship with our neighbors at the construction warehouse for Austin Habitat. We have been neighbors for 13 years. As with all great relationships, we've made friends, supported one another, collaborated, and looked out for one another. Some of our highlights:
- We have been able to fiscally support Austin Habitat as our advocacy partner for our annual Blue Genie Danger Derby, part of the EAST tour every fall
- We collaborated with Austin Habitat Americorps on a beautification project in 2011, painting a giant mural which faces Govalle Elementary School. Habitat was immensely supportive in providing materials and labor resources as we painted a mural with a positive message with the input and participation of the local community, school, and property management, and Blue Genie.
- Blue Genie has donated materials and other supplies to the ReStore.
- We helped create an entry portal for Habitat when they had presence at the Austin Rodeo. After the rodeo, Habitat re-mounted the portal over their door and it provided some fun theming for several years here at our combined warehouses.
- We help one another with deliveries, property management, even checking in when their alarm trips. There has historically been a fair amount of property crime in this neighborhood that has seen a lot of transformation, so keeping an eye out for one another extends that sense of friends and neighbors.
- Austin Habitat has been very generous over the years helping us on occasion to move heavy loads and palettes of materials off trucks.
Even when we had a party shut down by the city and we were asked to pay a fine and community service hours, I went straight to the Habitat ReStore to do my service. We believe firmly in the Habitat mission and have felt supported by their team in our endeavors as a local maker shop.
In short, we heart Austin Habitat!
Kevin Collins, Blue Genie Principal
Austin Habitat hearts you too!
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