Austin Community Foundation has awarded $225,000 from its Hispanic Impact Fund to 12 local nonprofit organizations.
The funds are unrestricted and can be used for general operating expenses for these organizations that have focused on the Hispanic and Latino communities. The fund focused on organizations in three areas: early childhood education, health and wellness, and job skills and entrepreneurship.
The Hispanic Impact Fund was established in 2017 and has granted $655,000 since then.
“Supporting Central Texas nonprofits that serve Latino families and individuals is vital to ensuring that the racial wealth divide doesn’t expand further due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Monica Muñoz Andry, 2020 grants chair for the Hispanic Impact Fund.
Academy gives $2,000 shopping sprees to 4 Season for Caring families
Families chose shoes, clothing and socks with a few fun things thrown in
Kirstan Kemkaran had her whole weekend planned.
The Georgetown 8-year-old was going to practice hitting the ball with her new mermaid-colored softball bat and catching with her new pink glove. She was then going to go fishing in San Gabriel Park and shoot cans in her backyard using her pink Red Ryder BB gun. At some point, she probably was also going to put on her roller skates.
Kirstan s new gear was purchased during a shopping spree she and her family went on at Academy Sports and Outdoors. On Friday, the sporting goods store gave four Statesman Season for Caring families $2,000 each in gift cards to buy whatever they wanted.
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LaChantia Anderson doesn t even remember the last time she went to the dentist. When she did, it was because the pain was so bad. All she could afford to have the dentist do was to pull that tooth.
And then this past year, another tooth started hurting, she said, but she couldn t afford to get it pulled.
On Friday, Anderson and her daughters Azyria and Aishiah were able to get help from dentist Dr. Kavin Kelp through Capital Area Dental Foundation and Season for Caring.
This is the 10th year that Capital Area Dental Foundation has provided care for the families featured in the Statesman s Season for Caring program. Anderson and her daughters were nominated to Season for Caring by the Salvation Army Austin after years of struggling with homelessness.
Families hit hard by pandemic, illness need plumbing, remodeling work
Cancer spreading to the brain and then his wife losing her job.
The music industry going silent because of the pandemic.
For three of the Statesman Season for Caring families, these are the lasting scars from 2020. It s also the reason needed home repairs have fallen so far down their lists.
Every year, the Statesman Season for Caring program highlights the needs of 12 featured families nominated by local nonprofit organizations. Those families needs are taken care of first and then the organizations use monetary donations to help hundreds of other families with basic needs such as rent, utilities, transportation and food.