Add the 2020 NAHMA Drug-Free Kids Calendar to Your Shopping List

Have you started your holiday shopping list yet? Make sure the 2020 National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) Drug-Free Kids Calendar is on it. They make great and timely residents and staff appreciation gifts. Purchase yours today by downloading the order form. The calendars traditionally sell out early. The calendar cost is $5.50 each, which is a Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Agriculture allowable project expense. 

Order calendars before Nov. 8 and you are automatically entered in the lucky draw for prizes including NAHMA meeting registrations, books and gift cards. There is a small shipping and handling fee for each calendar. 

The calendars feature outstanding original artwork by children, seniors and adults with special needs living in affordable multifamily housing. The underlying message for the annual calendar contest is always a drug-free theme but the association wanted to open the door for more avenues of expression, so a subtheme is incorporated into the poster contest. The subtheme this year is Sharing Our Stories: Learning from Others, Young and Old.

Kaia Carpenter, a 12th-grader from Summerville, S.C., was selected the grand prizewinner in the annual AHMA Drug-Free Kids poster and art contest. Her artwork appears on the cover of NAHMA’s 2020 calendar. Kaia, 19, also receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for NAHMA’s Biannual Top Issues in Affordable Housing fall conference in October, as well as a scholarship of $2,500 from the NAHMA Educational Foundation. 

 Nearly 5,000 eligible children, seniors and residents with special needs participated in the nationwide contest. Each winner of the NAHMA contest receives a $1,000 educational scholarship from the NAHMA Educational Foundation. All winners are also featured in the 2020 calendar.

 Additionally, participants in the annual art contests held by the local Affordable Housing Management Associations (AHMAs) are eligible to be selected as Regional AHMA Art Contest Honorable Mentions. Those selected for this distinction are featured in a special section of the 2020 NAHMA Drug-Free Kids Calendar and receive a $100 educational scholarship.

 For the contest, the artwork is divided into categories with winners selected from each of the following: kindergarten-first grade, second-third grades, fourth-sixth grades, seventh-ninth grades, 10th-12th grades, seniors and residents with special needs. Only students are eligible for the grand prize. 

 The complete list of winners and a sneak preview of their artwork can be found on the Current Winners webpage under the Awards & Contests tab.

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