Austin Roofing and Construction is now in the position to change the roofing business model in Austin.
Roofing Austin Weird is our non-profit arm that has been donating roofs, money and labor since 2015.
Roofing Austin Weird
Our 1% GIVE BACK Commitment TO AUSTIN
2024 Donations
Habitat for humanity NEW home roof = $10,000
Little League Sports Teams = $2,440
Teen Competitive Shooting club = $4,000
Children's Circus = $100
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Total = $16,540
2023 Donations
Community First! Village
12 Free Roofs = $46,200
Children's Home Christmas Party = $2,975 & 8 KIDS SPONSORED
Helping Hand Home New Year's party = $2,500
Little League Sports Teams = $4,200
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: NEW Roof for the Stage $4,200 & Cash Donations Totaling $34,500 = $38,700
Free Roof to a Single Mom = $8,791
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Total = $103,366
2022 Donations
Community First! Village
27 Free Roofs = $98,000
Children's Home Christmas Party = $2,535
Helping Hand Home New Year's party = $1,500
Little League Sports Teams = $3,700
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Total = $105,735
2021 Donations
Community First! Village
22 Free Roofs =
$65,500
Children's Home Christmas Party = $1,800
Helping Hand Home New Year's party = $1,500
Little League Sports Teams = $4,500
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Total =
$73,300
In 2018 we met the creator of Mobile Loaves & Fishes, the founding non-profit for Community First! Village, Alan Graham & his COO Kevin Shepherd.
They took us on a strolling tour through a dream made into a reality.
We were so captured by what they, Alan, his team & the residents, are creating that we joined forces wholeheartedly with them.
The residents are working in a functioning community that includes a large gardening program, auto shop, stores, food trucks, art creation, hair salon, church, steel forging, glass blowing, hotel & more! They, the residents, work the all shops. They are building their own businesses!
The vision of empowering & changing the lives of so many at the same time is awe inspiring still! We are proud to be a small part assisting in this amazing show of love & humanity gone right.
To learn more about the history & future of Community First! Village click here -
2020 Donations
Community First! Village
26 Free Roofs =
$54,600
2 Free roofs to local homeowners
1 metal roof & 1 shingle roof
= $18,200
Children's Home Christmas Party + $2,500 Donation= $4,000
Helping Hand Home New Year's party =
$1,500
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Total =
$78,300
2019 Donations
Community First! Village
16 Free Roofs =
$35,885
1 installed for Ryan Construction
Christmas Party @ Central Texas Children's Home
1 Party, Sponsored Kids, crafts & Salt Lick BBQ catered
= $2,200
New Years Party @ Helping hand Home for Children
1 Party for all the kids, smores, DJ, Dancing, Dinner & Crafts = $2,400
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Total
$40,485
How We Started
ROOFING AUSTIN WEIRD
One night Tim & Christine were discussing work and some of the unfortunate things we run into in this business. This evening it was an elderly lady who had hired a roofing company to re-roof her home through an insurance claim. The company came out and gave her a roof and she gave them her money. Two years later the insurance company came out to inspect the work. They found the work to be unacceptable and they tell her to get it repaired so they can reinstate her policy which they cancelled. Now she was terrified because her reverse mortgage company had been informed that her insurance was cancelled and she had to have insurance as part of her reverse mortgage contract! What insurance company was going to cover her with this roof? She called the roofing company that had done her roof but they didn't answer, they were long gone. So, she called Tim Bowen with Austin Roofing And Construction. He went out there and fixed her roof for as little as he could out of her pocket and got her In touch with a good Insurance agent who took care of her and got the reverse mortgage people happy again. Happy story? Not really. Tim was saddened by how such a nice lady was lied to, stolen from and put into such a bad position through no doing of her own. He said "I just wish I could give her a whole new roof for free, because that is what she really paid for and needs."
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That was where this idea began.
We will donate 1% of of total job cost, (On Every Job)
, to helping our community members who have been scammed, stolen from or that plain need Help! Let us help bring the security back to their lives by protecting quite possibly their largest investment, their homes. R.A.W. is the non-profit arm of Austin Roofing and Construction so there are no salaries or overhead paid out of this fund.
Austin Roofing and Construction's contributions back into our community of Austin...
2018
Donations
American Legions Post 326 Sponsorship $1,500
Ronald McDonald House Central Texas $ 850
APIE (Austin Partners in Education) Mentor $1,000
Central Texas Children’s Home Christmas Party $2,400
Helping Hand Home for Children New Year's Eve Party $1,600
Cunningham Elementary 400 T-Shirts $ 500
AMVET – American Veterans $ 100
Proud Supporter of the AGLCC $200
Putting Fore a Cause Just Hole Sponsorship $200
NAWIC Sponsorship $1,725
AGLCC Sponsorship $150
AIBA (Austin Independent Business Alliance) $1,000
NARPM $ 500
Benaway Scholarship $ 200
Community First Village Roof Donations (3). Small Houses for the Homeless by Mobile Loaves & Fishes $7,800
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Total $19,725
Time Donations by ARC staff are calculated at $25 per hour.
2017 Donations
Paella Dinner & Wine Tasting - Boy Scouts $500
Free Roof – Garrison Park $6,800
APIE Mentor $1,250
St. Julia Catholic Church $1,500
Shriners Kids Circus Austin $500
Austin Disaster Relief Network (Houston Floods) $500
American Veterans in Austin $100
Central TX Children’s Home Christmas Party $1,016
Presents Raised & Donated $1,350
Helping Hand Home for Children New Year’s Eve Party $1,749
AIBA Volunteer Time $900
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2017 Total $16,165
2016 Donations
March 2016: Nina Klipple Kyle TX. New Roof $6,000
April 2016: Donation to Austin Gives Mixer $400
Helping Hand Home For Children $900
Ronald McDonald House – Austin $500
Lone Star Soccer Club of Austin $200
Christmas Party Central Texas Children’s Home $2,150
Wish List Present Central Texas Children’s Home $151
ALLGO $57
RCAT Toys for Tots $250
December 2016: Kelli Page Austin TX. New Roof $6,000
APIE – Elementary School Mentoring (40 hours) $1,000
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2016 Total $17,608
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Austin Roofing & Construction came to my rescue when I really needed it due to my husband's illness. When our roof started to leaking, I had no idea how I would have it repaired, if it could be repaired. It was just another major problem added on to the ones I already had. When Tim & Christine became aware of my situation they immediately stepped in.
They came out, didn't repair it but put a Complete New Roof on, No Charge. My husband Henry, a 30 year Navy Retired Vietnam Veteran, & I will never be able to thank Tim & Christine enough. They are two of the nicest, most caring people you would ever hope to meet. Just knowing them has enriched our lives, besides all they've done.
Thank you Tim & Christine. GOD Bless you both & your family. GOD Bless America.
"
Nina Klipple
In 2015
Austin Roofing and Construction Used R.A.W. Funds & Time For These
Contributions:
1: Re-Branding of Bastrop Emergency Food Pantry
2: Donation of Free Full Home Gutter System: Spirit 109 Radio for Operations Fundraising
3: Mentoring at Manchaca Elementary
4: F7 Group Operations Fundraiser
5: Putt Putt (UT Club) for Helping Hands home
6: Austin Food Bank Holiday Food Drive
7: CEO Program
8: St. Vincent De Paul Society
9: Annual Christmas Party For Central Texas Children’s Home
10: Roof Labor Donated to Rebuilding Together Austin
11: Proud Supporter of the AGLCC - Austin Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
12: Donation: Girls Empowerment Network Scholarship(s) to We Are Girls! Conference 2015
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2015 Total $7,512
Sincerely,
The Team at Austin Roofing and Construction
Austin Roofing and Construction donated a roof to a baseball facility in Garrison Park in November.
3:26 pm Jan. 22, 2018
A Garrison Park baseball facility is sporting a new rooftop thanks to a Austin Roofing and Construction donation made in November.
In 2016, spouses and co-partners Tim and Christine Bowen of Austin Roofing Company implemented Austin Gives, a program through the Austin Chamber of Commerce where businesses donate 1 percent of their total gross income back to the city of Austin. As a result, the company donates at least two roofs a year to residents in the greater Austin area who might not otherwise be able to afford a new roof but are in dire need.
The goal behind implementing the Austin Gives program, Bowen said, was to bring honest roofing work to families in Central Texas. She said Texas does not require licensing for roofing contractors, which opens the community up to scams.
“I hear so many roofing horror stories,” Bowen said. “We wanted to create a program that could fix this and instead it turned into opening up an opportunity for community members who really need a new roof.”
The company was contacted by little league team South Austin Optimist to place a new roof on the building located right next to the baseball field at Garrison Park. League president Ric Castaneda was extremely grateful for the support.
“It is heartwarming to realize that there are people such as your company that is willing to help others,” Castaneda said in a testimony to the company. “To that we say, thank you, Garrison Park, for being here in South Austin with barbecue pits and an awesome pool.”
The Garrison Park facility roof was the only donation made by Austin Gives in 2017, Bowen said, so the pair is striving to donate three roofs in 2018.
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