Our Supporters

Avalon Housing receives support from a myriad of sources - individuals as well as organizations - from all across the country. Grants, loans, donor support, and a variety of other funds make our mission of ending homelessness through the provision of permanent supportive housing a reality one household at a time. Find out more about our Community Steward Award recipients, Community Sponsors, Funders, and then see How You Can Help. We’d love to have you along!

Community Stewards Award

In 1995, Avalon invited friends and supporters to a party. Meant to help raise much-needed funds for the then fledgling organization, the event also celebrated three years of successfully providing Ann Arbor’s first permanent supportive housing. And as with any success story, we knew we had not done it alone. There were those in the community we wished particularly to thank for their help with a project, the realization of a goal, or for their advocacy on behalf of our tenants.

It remains our tradition and honor to recogmize those who have worked tirelessly to help provide the housing and supportive services that have put an end to homelessness for the nearly 500 people - adults and children alike - that Avalon serves. We could not, and neither would we want to, do it without them.

2007 Awardees
Pete Earley, Journalist
Doug Smith, Swisher Commercial Realty
Deb Pippins, Project Outreach Team (PORT)

2006 Awardees
Kathleen Letts, Artist
Lisa Marra, Interior Designer
Frank Cambria, Washtenaw County Administrator

2005 Awardee
Frances Riddle, Stimson Mural Project Coordinator

2004 Awardees
Housing Support Services Team
Fran and Joanne Alexander, Alexander Resources

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Nile Harper, Religious Action for Affordable Housing (RAAH)
Food Gatherers

2002 Awardees
Jane Barney, Past President, Avalon Board of Trustees
Bob Gillett, Legal Services of South Central Michigan

2001 AwardeesVirtual Groundbreaking
Ernie Otter, Pestco
David Esau, Cornerstone Design

2000 Awardees
Tobi Hanna-Davies, Ann Arbor City Council
Douglass Martell, Ann Arbor Police Department
Laurie Atwood, Children’s Creative Center

1999 Awardees
Larry Cunningham, Phoenix Contractors
Jim Reach, Reach, Raney & Carpenter
Bob Gates, First Martin Corporation

1998 Awardees
Adrienne O’Brien, Mathaei Botanical Gardens
Robert Potts, Avalon Board Member
Jane Lumm, Ann Arbor City Council
David Antonelli, Dykema Gossett

1997 Awardees
Clint Driver, Inspector
Ellen Webb, Ann Arbor Kiwanis
Martha Bloom, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

1996 Awardees
Grace Shackman, Master Gardener, Washtenaw County Commissioner

1995 Awardees
Bob Barackman
Maggie Camacho
Rex Brueggeman