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The Statesman Season for Caring program helped featured families with better housing, medical care, education and more last year

Monday the 12 Statesman Season for Caring partner nonprofit agencies each received a $40,000 grant from the program. This is the second grant they have each received. In December, they each received a $10,000 grant.  A final grant will come in mid-February after Season for Caring ends its donation period on Jan. 31. This year Season for Caring is having a record year. It has raised almost $117,000 in in-kind donations of goods and services and $1.36 million in monetary donations for a total of $1.47 million.  The grants received by the agencies will be used for helping the featured famili...

This week, Pat Munday made a $100,000 gift, doubling what she gave last year. Munday is the widow of Bill Munday, who owned car dealerships in Austin and Houston before his death in 2018. This year, she's been donating money to organizations like Season for Caring, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and Hungry Souls, which are helping to keep families fed during the pandemic.  Since the program began in 1999, Season for Caring has given $15.1 million to local nonprofit organizations.  The agencies use the monetary donations to help the featured families first but then are able to help hun...

Season for Caring's seniors still have items on their Christmas lists His grandsons call Cline Meredith their superhero. His wife calls him her best friend.  For the 66-year-old from Elgin, who has stage 4 metastatic kidney cancer that has recently gone to his brain, this Christmas and every day after are important. “His biggest thing he loves to do is go fishing, and he can’t do what he loves,” said wife Velma Meredith, 63. “We love to carry on conversations together, but now he feels so bad he sleeps most of the time. Or when he is up, his mind doesn’t work as well as it used to...

To Mierella Castillo, Nelson Toala is more than just her dad. He’s her hero.  She said that without him, she wouldn’t be who she is today. He made sacrifices for her so that she could succeed, and that she will never forget.  Castillo first came to the United States in 2003 accompanied by Toala with a goal of attending radiology school. Toala had been a pharmacist in Ecuador, but he gave up that job to help his daughter. From Ecuador, the two moved to Lubbock on the recommendation of a family friend. He waited for her to get settled and then returned to Ecuador about four months later.�...