Tag Archives: Austin

What do you love about Austin? Film it.

What should Austin save? It is an important question for a city growing so dramatically. Starting Friday, October 22, the National Trust for Historic Preservation will roll its video cameras at locations across town with one goal in mind – to capture your answers. Join them at one of their 13 meet-ups and speak your mind about the city you ...

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Hiking for a Cause?

Checking this out.  Hiking for the  Hill Country Conservancy. The HCC “Hike the Half” team is similar to other non-profit charity running teams, the only difference is instead of running, we ask team members to train by hiking around Austin! While HCC is primarily a land and water conservation organization, we are working on the extension of the Barton Creek ...

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Save More than Cash Money

Check this out as sent in from one of our readers: GivShop, a new Austin-based company, is partnering with local businesses and non-profits to create an innovative donation tool.  GivShop will offer shoppers deeply discounted deals on fun things to do in the Austin area and will give 50% of their profit to the local non-profit of the customer’s choice. ...

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Why are we doing this to East Austin Kids?

Guest post from my friends over at GivingCity Magazine: Backstory: In March, I wrote a post about Southwest Key’s efforts to improve the educational opportunities and help strengthen the community for the people living where Southwest Key lives, Central East Austin around the former Johnston High School, now Eastside Memorial High School. In that post, I talked about learning how ...

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