GivingCity is the guide to doing good in Austin. We offer actionable community content with the goal of connecting more Central Texans to philanthropy and improving communication and collaboration across the community.
Through stories, profiles, first-person essays and in-depth features we offer volunteers, donors, philanthropists, nonprofit professionals, and anyone interested in civic engagement the information — and inspiration — they need to do good.
The magazine publishes quarterly — January, April, July and October — and is distributed to almost 8,000 people via email and about 3,000 print readers in Austin and beyond. Our readers include many of the most engaged, active and philanthropic people in Austin.
Please let us know how we’re doing! If you have a story idea or want to learn more about advertising, please send an email to me at monica@givingcity.com.
FAQs
Who publishes GivingCity?
GivingCity Austin was created by Monica Maldonado Williams and Torquil Dewar in 2007. In 2010, the Austin Community Foundation adopted GivingCity Austin, and beginning with an issue in October 2010, it publishes GivingCity Austin quarterly and distribute it as a service to Central Texas.
Though GivingCity is a project of ACF, the content of GivingCity Austin covers the entire Austin philanthropic community, not just ACF funds and donors. We believe this is the only way we can accomplish GivingCity Austin’s and ACF’s shared mission of building and supporting a culture of generosity in Austin.
Who is the audience?
GivingCity Austin is created for anyone interested in making Austin a better place to live. We serve ambitious professionals, donors, volunteers, young professionals, community leaders and philanthropists. If they’re plugged into Austin, they’re reading GivingCity.
Can I write for GivingCity Austin?
We love to hear from potential contributors. Send me an email along with a little about your work, and we’ll talk!
SEE THE GIVINGCITY AUSTIN CONTRIBUTOR’S AGREEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION.
How can I submit a story idea?
Yes! Send us your Please see the Contact GivingCity page and send your press release.
How can we support GivingCity Austin?
There are lots of ways to support our work.
- Become an issue Sponsor or Advertiser. We’d love to partner with you on ways to make the most of your investment.
- ….and, well, that’s really the best way to support GivingCity. Who else can offer you the most plugged-in people in Austin? Download a Media Kit for more information.
Who is Monica Maldonado Williams?
Williams is founding editor of GivingCity Austin, a magazine about local philanthropy on a mission to build and support our community’s growing culture of giving. Founded in 2007, the magazine began as a blog, then an online publication and with the next issue will add a print component as well. As an online publication, the magazine’s growth and distribution can be attributed directly to social media, with Monica using Twitter and Facebook since 2007 to share the content. While GivingCity had always been a “side project,” for Monica, in 2010 it was adopted by the Austin Community Foundation, which now supports GivingCity’s content and distribution.
Currently, Monica is the communications director for the Austin Community Foundation where her role is to develop and implement communications strategies and tactics to advance the mission of the foundation. Monica has worked full-time since 1992 and has experience as a magazine editor, consumer website manager, copywriter, communications director and freelance writer. She speaks on social media and storytelling and is a member of the Leadership Austin Essential class of 2012. She lives in Austin with her husband and two children.
Wow! What an incredibly appropriate idea for our time – Giving City!
This is a great contribution to Austin and our many, many non-profit organizations – pun intended.
Dear Monica,
Thanks for sending this. It’s the first issue I’ve seen, and I like it. After editing The Good Life magazine for 11-1/2 years –before crashing and burning after putting out the January 2009 edition, due to the economy–I can really appreciate your labor of love in starting up in a new and far cheaper format. I wish you the best of luck in this new venture.
I’m starting my own new venture, The Austin Bulldog, an initiative of the Austin Investigative Reporting Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity. It will be online only, doing investigative reporting focused on Austin. It will be my third startup publication, my first nonprofit, and I’m really excited about getting back to my roots in hard-nose investigative reporting.
Thanks again for what you’re doing with GivingCity.
Dear Monica,Thanks for sending this. It’s the first issue I’ve seen, and I like it. After editing The Good Life magazine for 11-1/2 years –before crashing and burning after putting out the January 2009 edition, due to the economy–I can really appreciate your labor of love in starting up in a new and far cheaper format. I wish you the best of luck in this new venture.
+1
I am very glad to have run across GivingCity and to see remarks by Sam Woolard, who may or may not remember me from the CAN Assessment & Review Committee. I couldn’t believe it when she left CAN, but I understand the spirit that moved her better now.
I’m starting a new venture, David Wilkinson Evaluation Consulting, which is geared toward providing evaluation services specifically for nonprofits.
I don’t have a website yet, but I can be reached by e-mail and at 217/2344.
Best to all,
David
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