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This is an essay for the “Why I Give” column of Fall 2009 issue of GivingCity Austin magazine, this time written by Texas musician Sara Hickman. Sara’s remarkable talent (she was 2010′s official State Musician of Texas) is matched only by her big heart. Aside from being a singer-songwriter Sara is a mother and...
First-generation college students are heroes, and they don’t even know it. Especially in a Hispanic family, these young people can change the trajectory of a whole family. Hispanics have a strong sense of family and responsibility to their families. When one of this siblings has some success as an adult, it’s expected that they...
My father will not pass on an estate to me. There is no family fortune. Instead what my brother and sisters and I have inherited is the desire to see that things are done the right way. It plays out in each of us differently, but the common purpose we share can best be...
Spending on education is never a gamble. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 91 of the top 100 highest paying jobs in the United States require a post-secondary or college degree. To attract those high-paying jobs to Austin, we’ve got to have a prepared workforce, which means helping more students get their...
(Published in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of GivingCity Austin) Joshua Bingaman, owner of Progress Coffee on Austin’s eastside, is not the typical California immigrant coming to get what he can out of Austin. Instead, he’s giving everything he is. When he was in high school, Joshua Bingaman ran away from home in Oklahoma to...
Below is our list of philanthropic professional organizations or young professional organizations (YPOs) in Austin. Some of these organizations are affiliated directly with an Austin nonprofit while others are professional organizations or associations with a philanthropic element to their mission. Please keep in mind that the activities and even existence of each of the...
So says new research published in a 2012 issue of Psychological Science and conducted by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management. Essentially, it’s a trick on your mind. “In short, we propose that spending time on others makes people feel like they have...
In the past few months, Andrew West has given me more advice than my mother has. Most of it better. Granted, they advise me on different things (Yes, Mom, I will get my hair colored soon.), but I have to remark on it because I have not reciprocated Andrew’s help one bit. I get...
1. I want more people to witness or hear about the good people do in our community every day. No one should have to read a Buzzfeed post titled “20 Things That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity.” When we lose faith in humanity, we lose faith in ourselves. 2. When I overhear people...
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