NEW! GivingCity Austin #10 Now Available

Posted on January 10, 2012 by givingcityaustin

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 wildfire victims, why are families still suffering? “How to Help a Returning Soldier” U.S. soldiers face depression, PTSD [...]

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GivingCity Austin Issue 9: Celebrate volunteers!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by givingcityaustin

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 Will Meredith Why Mike Haggerty kept Turkey Trot going for +20 years Matt Kouri on how to judge a nonprofit and much more! [...]

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SAT NOV 19: ECHO Family Carnival – Go!

Posted on November 18, 2011 by givingcityaustin

The Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) is pleased to invite all Austin-area families to the final event in the Austin 2011 Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the ECHO Family Festival. The ECHO Family Festival will take place on Saturday, November 19 from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the St. Ignatius Family Center, 126 West Oltorf Street. This event [...]

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Hey, Austin: Adopt a Family! Save Christmas!

Posted on November 9, 2011 by givingcityaustin

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, traveling to see friends and relatives… even a Christmas tree can be an extravagance they can’t afford. Lots of these families just skip the holidays [...]

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(So excited.) What’s inside the next issue of GivingCity!

Posted on June 8, 2011 by givingcityaustin

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 ASMRDDT to write that in all caps.) To wit, here’s the title to our cover story: [...]

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GivingCity Austin #7 Magazine, Featuring 30 New Philanthropists

Posted on May 11, 2011 by givingcityaustin

      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 difference now Here’s the Art Taking art in Austin to the next level Leading Women [...]

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On why we do this

Posted on March 3, 2011 by givingcityaustin

Before GivingCity came to the Austin Community Foundation, we produced a lot of content for a lot of other people. One of our favorite things to work on was and is 12 Baskets Magazine for Mobile Loaves & Fishes. We still do 12 Baskets now. Here’s how we got that gig: I was standing in [...]

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We’re on The Huffington Post!

Posted on December 6, 2010 by givingcityaustin

So grateful to Andrew Shapter for making us the subject of his latest blog post for The Huffington Post. See it here: “Need Inspiration to Give? Read Stories, Not Statistics.” In that post, he writes about how stories rather than statistics inspire people to give. And he uses the two magazines I produce – GivingCity [...]

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Advice for ending homelessness

Posted on November 15, 2010 by givingcityaustin

The latest issue of 12 Baskets Magazine has some heartbreaking stories, I think. You’ve got to read the one about Rain. (That’s her, left.) She’s a homeless girl who lives on the streets of Austin with her friends. She shouldn’t have to sleep on the street. She didn’t do anything wrong. She did, however, get [...]

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Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week

Posted on November 5, 2010 by givingcityaustin

Austin’s Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is almost upon us; it takes place November 13-19. Awareness days/weeks/months are interesting things: as Austinites, we’re all pretty aware that homelessness exists – we see it every day. And we know that people go hungry. So why have an awareness week for problems we all already know about? [...]

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