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Get Involved, Spotlight Org, Top StoriesGet Involved Spotlight: Wildlife Rescue and RehabilitationOur Mission: To rescue, rehabilitate, and release native wildlife and to provide sanctuary, individualized care, and a voice for other animals in need.
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Get Involved, Spotlight OrgGet Involved Spotlight: TreeFolksAbout TreeFolks:
TreeFolks is the only charity in Central Texas promoting comprehensive urban forestry practices to public, private and government audiences. Our programs…... |
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Get Involved Spotlight: Austin Habitat...
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The Mission:
Through faith in action, Austin Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build HOMES, COMMUNITIES and HOPE.
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Get Involved Spotlight: Foster Angels ...
The Foster Angels of Central Texas Foundation’s mission is to improve the lives of children in foster care, ensuring that each child has his or her basic needs met, and to provide life-enriching and life-enhancing experiences whenever...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Communities fo...
Communities for Recovery is a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas that supports long-term recovery for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions by partnering with communities to provide volunteer peer supported...
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Austin Partners in Education
Austin Partners in Education (APIE) connects the community and the classroom to promote academic excellence and personal success for the students of Austin. APIE provides innovative volunteer-driven programs in reading and math designed to improve student academic performance at key intervals. The...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Special Olympi...
Consider the basketball. Left alone on flat ground, it is just a basketball. Now put the basketball in the hands of a Special Olympics Texas athlete. What happens next is much more than basketball. She throws the basketball through the hoop and feels joy. Her family cheers with pride. Spectators...
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Get Involved Spotight: Anthropos Arts
Anthropos Arts is a nonprofit organization that works in East Austin to bring top professional musician-mentors into low-income schools, offering free music lessons, workshops, and performance opportunities to at-risk middle and high school students. The 2011–2012 school year marks our...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Austin Animal ...
Austin Animal Center is the largest municipal shelter in Central Texas, providing services to around 23,000 animals annually. Last year alone our volunteers donated almost 49,000 hours to help meet the needs of those...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Youth2Seniors
Youth2Seniors is a local organization whose mission is to create intergenerational programs that partner local youth and seniors within the community to enhance each other's lives and learning experience....
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Get Involved Spotlight: People’s...
About People’s Community Clinic:
People’s Community Clinic’s (PCC) mission is to improve the health of medically underserved and uninsured Central Texans by providing high quality, affordable healthcare. PCC delivers care with respect and dignity to people with little or...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Texas Book Fes...
The Texas Book Festival is a nonprofit organization that celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. In its 17-year history, the Festival has connected readers with the nation’s most...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Dress for Succ...
The mission of Dress for Success Austin is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help...
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Get Involved Spotlight: Austin Youth R...
Our high-school students — the River Watchers — lead Austin’s efforts to understand water quality in the Colorado River and the streams that feed into it. Twenty years ago, with initial funding and long-term support from the City of Austin and LCRA, Austin Youth River Watch began teaching...
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