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Amala Foundation
The Amala Foundation inspires the diverse youth of the world to live in unity, serve compassionately and lead peacefully. We encourage youth to lead and serve with a heart-centered, global perspective, living in recognition that sustainable peace begins within. All of our youth programs are a place for empowerment and healing.
Amigos de las Americas/Austin Chapter
Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) builds partnerships to empower young leaders, advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding in the Americas.
Animal Trustees of Austin
Animal Trustees of Austin serves the animals of our community by providing affordable, humane treatment, with compassion and respect for all.
Art Alliance Austin
Art Alliance Austin (est. 1956) engages people with great art by supporting Austin’s most promising visual artists and arts organizations to build a vibrant, informed community.
Austin Child Guidance Center
To improve the mental health of children and their families through early intervention, diagnosis, and treatment to help them develop the emotional skills for meeting life’s challenges.
Austin Clubhouse
Austin Clubhouse exists to provide acceptance and empowerment so adults living with mental health diagnoses can pursue personal goals and play a meaningful role as co-workers, colleagues, family members and friends.
Austin Creative Alliance
The mission of the Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect and celebrate Austin’s arts, cultural, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
Austin School of Film
The Austin School of Film @ Motion Media Arts Center is a non-profit independent film, art, and technology center that supports every aspect of production from idea to distribution. Our goal is to educate, train, and develop emerging artists of all ages to be active participants in shaping our 21st century culture.
Aware Awake Alive
Aware Awake Alive prevents loss of life to alcohol poisoning by educating teens, young adults and parents on the dangers and symptoms of alcohol overdose, generating awareness and dialogue around amnesty-based policy and legislation and creating an atmosphere of partnership in which young people, parents, educators and like-minded organizations share responsibility for supporting and educating one another.
BELTÀ
BELTÀ is an Austin-based nonprofit that helps the fine arts grow by supporting individual artists & musicians.
Big Medium
Big Medium is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting visual arts and artists in Texas by offering affordable studio spaces, operating a gallery and organizing programs such as the annual East Austin Studio Tour and the Texas Biennial.
Blue Wave Music Alliance
Our mission is to enrich the lives of children by donating music instruments, music lessons, voice lessons, music educational material, music therapy for special education and scholarships for individual students.
Cancer Connection
The Mission of the Cancer Connection is to improve the quality of life for cancer patients, cancer survivors, their families and caregivers in the Greater Austin Area.
Cancer Support Community Central Texas
The mission of Cancer Support Community Central Texas is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
The CMPBS mission is to make adaptive life cycle systems (planning and design) the standard practice for the built environment.
Change My Town
ChangeMyTown is working to create a sustainable relationship between community and businesses that encourages both to thrive. Our members' core missions are to directly support the community and nonprofits.
Citizen Generation
Citizen Generation exists to promote philanthropy and create the habit of giving. Through our programs CharityBash, CharityLadies, and CharityVolunteers, we aim to make philanthropy affordable, accesible, and fun, ultimately cultivating donors for life.
Communities in Schools
Communities In Schools of Central Texas surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Con Mi MADRE
Con Mi MADRE increases the representation of Hispanic women in post-secondary education through a focus on social support service and education to girls and their mothers.
CORE Health Foundation
CORE Health Foundation is a disability advocacy organization removing barriers for people with disabilities through research, education, and community projects.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc.
CERF+ is a national artists’ service organization whose mission is to safeguard and sustain the careers of craft artists and provide emergency resources that benefit all artists.
Emancipet
Emancipet’s mission is to make spay/neuter and preventive veterinary care affordable, accessible, and understandable to all pet owners.
Fluent Collaborative
Fluent~Collaborative is a speculative non-profit initiative established to increase awareness of the ideas and issues that inform culture today and the parallel developments in contemporary visual art. Currently, Fluent~Collaborative has two projects: testsite, an experimental exhibition space, and ...might be good, an online contemporary arts publication.
Foundation Communities
Foundation Communities empowers low-income families with the tools they need to succeed, including affordable housing, supportive services, and programs to improve their educational and economic standing.
GENaustin
GEN's mission is to support and guide girls to make wise choices as they navigate the unique pressures of girlhood.
Goodwill Industries of Central Texas
Generating lifelong connections to work.
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians
The mission of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is to provide access to affordable health care for Austin's low-income, uninsured working musicians with a focus on prevention and wellness.
Helping the Aging, Needy and Disabled, Inc.
OUR MISSION: Providing exceptional innovative care and support for those who need assistance with daily living, while inspiring others to do the same.
HOPE Campaign
The HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign is a project of HOPE Events Inc. an eco-conscious 501(c)3 non-profit that helps artists & musicians support education projects around the world.
HOPE Farmers Market
HOPE Farmers Market develops healthy relationships between farmers, small businesses and urban consumers by cultivating a space for the exchange of food, culture and knowledge.
I Live Here, I Give Here
I Live Here, I Give Here’s mission is to deepen and expand the culture of personal philanthropy by inspiring Central Texans to invest more money in our community. We educate and connect individuals and non-profits so more Central Texans experience the personal benefit of increased philanthropy.
KLRU
KLRU presents quality multimedia content that engages people in the thoughtful exchange of ideas, the expression of the arts, and enjoyable lifelong learning opportunities, resulting in a more vibrant community and a higher quality of life.
KUT Radio
KUT creates experiences that deepen understanding and connect people. We are committed to authenticity, craft, context and the unique power of the human voice in all its forms.
Leadership Austin
Leadership Austin ignites passion for community leadership. Since 1979, we have developed and created community among leaders from all walks of life. We offer programs that explore critical community issues, develop the leadership skills to address those issues, and foster relationships that help facilitate positive, collaborative change in our community.
LifeWorks : Youth and Family Organization
LifeWorks creates generational change by transitioning youth and families form crisis to safety and success.
Love-A-Bull
The mission of Love-A-Bull is to promote responsible guardianship and improve the image and lives of pit bull type dogs through education, advocacy, and rescue.
Meals on Wheels and More
Meals on Wheels and More seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
Mental Health America of Texas
Mental Health America of Texas is dedicated to promoting mental health, preventing mental disorders and substance abuse, and achieving recovery from mental illnesses and addictions through education and advocacy.
Mobile Art Program
The goals of the Mobile Art Program are to improve the lives of seniors and disabled adults by giving them an outlet for creative expression, restoring self-esteem, building friendships while creating art in group settings and increasing cognitive skills leading to stabilization and overall health.
New Hope Center
To provide meaningful and quality services to individuals with disabilities so that they may meet their individual goals and improve their quality of life within the community.
Open Door Preschools
The mission of Open Door Preschools is to nurture and inspire young children of diverse needs, economic levels and family backgrounds in an engaging educational environment.
PeopleFund
PeopleFund creates economic opportunity and financial stability for underserved people by providing access to capital, education and resources to build healthy small businesses.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region
Since 1938, Planned Parenthood has been a vital part of Austin’s health care safety net. Planned Parenthood provides essential, life-saving health exams, cancer screenings, birth control, and sexuality education to more than 30,000 uninsured, low-income clients annually. Many of these clients depend on Planned Parenthood’s three nonprofit health centers in Austin as their only source of health care.
Project Transitions
Project Transitions is dedicated to serving people with HIV and AIDS by providing hospice, housing, and support in a compassionate and caring environment.
REVEL
In an effort to remove all barriers to the enjoyment of classical music, deepen the listener's understanding, and to cultivate an appreciation for its value in modern society as a relevant, living art form, REVEL's mission is to bring an exceptional classical music experience to the community that is devoid of all pretension, yet exhibits the highest artistic caliber.
Safe Place
SafePlace exists to end sexual and domestic violence through safety, healing, prevention and social change.
SIMS Foundation
The SIMS Foundation mission is to provide access to and financial support for mental health and addiction recovery services for Austin-area musicians and their families.
Spirit Reins
Spirit Reins tranforms the lives of children and families through trauma-informed therapy services, training, and research. We offer a variety of innovative professional counseling services, but specialize in Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy(TF-EAP) in serving children who have experienced abuse, neglect, or other traumatic events.
STRONG START
The mission of STRONG START is to prevent the cycle of child abuse and neglect by early intervention that focuses on building successful and resilient children, strengthening parents, and preserving families.
Sustainable Food Center
Sustainable Food Center cultivates a healthy community by strengthening the local food system and improving access to nutritious, affordable food.
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund
TCE Fund's mission is to engage Texans through action-oriented research, public education campaigns and programs to promote thriving, sustainable communities.
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund
The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund supports research and education efforts that promote religious freedom, individual liberties and quality public education.
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
The mission of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) is to promote the dignity, self-sufficiency, safety and stability of low-income Texans by providing high quality legal assistance and related educational services.
The Arc of the Capital Area
The Arc of the Capital Area, a non-profit organization, is committed to promoting independence and choice by providing individualized services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Arc of the Capital Area supports the Arc of the Arts Sudio & Gallery. The Arc of the Arts program offers and artistic bridge for people with disabilities and the community by displaying and selling the art work at community events and in the Cool Family Art Gallery.
The Texas Observer
We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth as we find it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, to human values above all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation of democracy. We will take orders from none but our own conscience, and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit.
The Visual Arts Center
The Visual Arts Center is a vibrant collaboration and exhibition space in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Here, emerging artists, faculty and students gather to create, explore, and innovate contemporary art.
The Wine and Food Foundation of Texas
The Wine and Food Foundation of Texas is a membership non-profit using our passion for wine and food to fund the education, health and well being of our community.
Theatre Action Project
Theatre Action Project uses the creative arts to activate the academic, social and emotional development of young people. Through interactive classroom performances, after school residencies and community based programs, TAP's team of professional teaching artists inspire youth to be creative artists, courageous allies, critical thinkers and confident leaders in their community.
TIPS ON ART
TIPS On Art: Cultivating Austin by connecting people, art and community .....we are better together.
Urban Roots - Youth Launch
Urban Roots is a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and increase the access to healthy food in Austin.
VSA Texas
Our mission is to promote the creative power in people with disabilities by working with all community members to facilitate full access to the cultural and educational arts.
Wildflower Center
The mission of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin is to increase the sustainable use and conservation of native wildflowers, plants and landscapes.
WOWi
WOWi, under the Austin Community Foundation umbrella, uniquely combines ART + WEB + LEARNING to build and connect communities locally, regionally, and globally. WOWi creates new types of interactive digital media environments, designed to evoke wonder, insight, and a sense of connection to improve the lives of targeted WOWi audiences.