For Gillot s kids, that is attending band class almost every day for sons Vaughn and Malcolm and attending a fashion design elective for daughter Gisele.
The idea to enroll came from Gisele, who had been tracking the vaccine s progress. Once they enquired, Gisele kept checking her email hoping she would get selected.
When Gillot was notified by ARC to come in to enroll Gisele, she also asked the boys if they wanted to enroll. Vaughn was very interested and had been reading about the vaccine. Malcolm was more like sure whatever, Gillot says.
The kids also have been following along as their grandmother participated in the Moderna vaccine trial.
Austin Community Foundation opens Women s Fund grant applications
Austin Community Foundation has opened grant applications for its Women s Fund. The fund is expected to award 20 grants that will total $400,000 to local nonprofit organizations that serve women in areas such as providing affordable housing, increasing access to child care, supporting education, reducing health disparities in women of color or preventing unintended pregnancy.
The application for the grants is online at Austin Community Foundation s website and due by Jan. 28.
Austin Community Foundation s Women s Fund began in 2004 and has donated funds to more than 60 nonprofits. This year grants went to organizations like SAFE Alliance, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Foundation Communities, Todos Juntos Learning Center and Mariposa Family Learning Center.
When Lemuel Bradshaw first got bronchitis in April 1998, the then-28-year-old never could have imagined that heart transplants would become part of his life. After two weeks of antibiotics, he thought he was good to go.
Within months, the viral bronchitis damaged his heart. On Oct. 23, 1999, after just turning 30, he had his first heart transplant. He and his wife, Odessa, had been married about a year, and he had married into a family with three teenage daughters. I was really overwhelmed with just the prospect of getting the one, Bradshaw says of his heart transplant. In his mind, heart transplants were like the artificial hearts he had heard about in the 1980s. The patients never really lived.