“You do what you can.”
I’m sure you’re as overwhelmed as I am about the news from Haiti. We work so hard to help the community around us and then we see this destruction and suffering in another country, and it’s all we can...
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GivingCity Austin #7 Magazine, Featuring 30 New Philanthropists
SPRING 2011 ISSUE IS READY Start reading the new issue now. LOOK WHAT’S INSIDE: click the links to go directly to that page FEATURES The New Philanthropists – 30 daredevils making a...
View Article(So excited.) What’s inside the next issue of GivingCity!
I hate to brag, but I am a marketer/mom, so it comes naturally, unfortunately. I just have to say that GivingCity Austin #8 is going to be the BEST MAGAZINE ISSUE OF ALL TIME.* (I am required by the...
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How to help victims of Central Texas fires
Bastrop fire as viewed from Austin, photo by Deanna Roy GivingCity Austin readers are anxious to help the victims of the fires smoldering across Central Texas – in Cedar Park, Leander, Steiner Ranch,...
View ArticleAustin, you’re amazing.
Many of us know people affected by the fires all over the Austin area. Hell, many of you are people affected by the fires all over Austin. So what would you say if I told you that hundreds and hundreds...
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Hey, Austin: Adopt a Family! Save Christmas!
SEE OUR 2012 LIST OF TOY DRIVES HERE! Thousands of Central Texas families struggle all year long to put food on the table, so for them the holidays can be the worst time of year. Gifts, big meals,...
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GivingCity Austin Issue 9: Celebrate volunteers!
THE NEW ISSUE IS READY START READING THE FALL 2011 ISSUE NOW INSIDE: Celebrate Volunteers! H-E-B Feast of Sharing hosts more than 1,000 volunteers every year. Here’s why. The surprising philosophy of...
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NEW! GivingCity Austin #10 Now Available
Thanks to our sponsors: The new issue is ready. Click below or on the cover to start reading it now. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: “Where Did The Money Go?” If millions of dollars were raised to help...
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GivingCity Austin Nov/Dec Issue Now Available!
Get inspired! The new issue of GivingCity Austin is ready! INSIDE THE NEW ISSUE: The Impact of Austin’s Nutcracker Why Austin is Still Fighting AIDS 20+ Ways to Give Back This Season A Beautiful Story...
View ArticleSurviving a disaster
You start to think disasters are going to happen pretty regularly now. In 2011, tens of thousands of our neighbors lived through the worst wildfires in Texas history. My family wasn’t affected, but...
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Free Legal Help in Austin? Volunteer Attorneys Step Up
Randy Howry, an Austin attorney and lecturer with the Law School’s Trial Advocacy Program, participates in an April TLTV legal clinic for veterans in Austin. Photo courtesy UT Law magazine. I’ve said...
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How to help Austin’s Onion Creek flood victims
First, take a look at this map I grabbed from behind the Statesman’s paywall, below. Then see this list of HOW TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS, also from the Statesman, which they did not put behind the paywall....
View ArticleSupport the 3 Stages of Disaster Relief
Nobody thinks it will happen to them. I’ve interviewed a couple dozen people affected by disasters – fires and floods – and none of them thought they would ever be affected — and most of them thought...
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Austin Relief Alliance needs your help
Received this to share with you. This community has to come together to help our own. Please find a way to help. Dear Community Leader, Recent floods have impacted more than 1,000 households in...
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SXSW Daily Good Digest – Day 2, Part 2
While Vicky Garza was covering crowd-funding, I stepped into social good and civic engagement sessions. It was too cold and rainy to leave the Convention Center, but that’s okay because there was...
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How to help children and family refugees in Texas
“More than 52,000 minors traveling without their parents have been caught crossing the southwest border illegally since October, including 9,000 in May alone, a record,” according to a June 25 story in...
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Who’s helping Central Texas flood victims and how you can help
Photo by Emmanuelle Bourgue CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 First, give money. When you donate to the organizations that know exactly how to make the most of your disaster-relief donations, you really get the most...
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OPINION: “I met with families who lost everything in the flood.”
By Debbie Bresette, President, United Way for Greater Austin VP of Strategic Programs, Dr. Leah Meunier, joined me on a couple of trips down to Caldwell and Hays Counties this week. We met with some of...
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Moved by the refugee crisis? Here’s how to help refugees in Austin
A Swiss police officer accompanies migrants from Syria carrying their children, upon their arrival at the railway station in the north-eastern Swiss town of Buchs on Sept. 1. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)...
View ArticleSXSW 2016: How aid organizations are deploying tech to developing nations
What if the place where you lived didn’t exist on a map? For many parts of the world, this is the reality. Now imagine those places being struck by a disaster, like an earthquake or typhoon. How would...
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