On Saturday, April 14th, from 4pm to 7pm, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will be hosting an art opening with Project ClayPlay, Foster’s Angels, andHelping Hand Home at the South Lamar café (221 S Lamar). The art on display and for sale comes from Foster’s Angels and/or Helping Hand Home children through the creative guidance of the dedicated…
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Ripples of Hope for Children
I’m so very lucky to be on the Millenial Advisory Board for Ben & Jerry’s. They recently sent us Free Pint coupons to create Random Acts of Ice Cream. I’d just heard of an amazing new group in Austin working with kids in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, so I put two great…
Connecther
Like the shopping sites I’ve mentioned before, new Austin-based non-profit Connecther.org is focused on making life better for global women and children. Only Connecther.org provides collective giving and increased visibility to smaller scale 501c3 projects. By aggregating and consolidating hundreds of women and children focused non-profit projects, Connecther provides a platform for a single donor or a donor…
Austin: World Vision’s Step into Africa, AIDS Exhibit
September 11-18, Bethany United Methodist Church will host an educational AIDS Exhibit called World Vision’s Step into Africa, a multimedia, interactive exhibit that allows visitors to step into the lives of actual children affected by HIV and AIDS in the hardest-hit region of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, where about 22 million people are infected with HIV (2/3…
Austin & Aspen: Courtney—Get This—Sames
Samesies! How many times have you said that comparing two things that are the, well, same? I love drawing parallels between Austin and Aspen, so you can imagine how tickled I was to get an email from Courtney SAMES, photographer from Austin, who was headed to Aspen to spend the summer. Samesies! Turns out, Courtney…
Merry Christmas! DO Good
I don’t care how you do good, but you need to do it. Smiling at people, holding the door for someone, carrying groceries … it’s the little things. But if you are looking for a place to donate money this season, I have two places. Both work primarily with kids. Do Good: Debra I got…
Austin: 10% Off at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf All Month
Just buy the HeartGift wristband for a minimum donation of $1 at any of the four Austin Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf locations before August 11. Then you get a ten percent discount on all prepared beverages through August 31! (Same deal as last time) What’s the HeartGift Foundation? A group that brings children like…
Austin: MooJesus! Summer Camp
I ADORE MooJesus! Y’all should know that by now, and I just found out that V and O’Dea went WITHOUT me today. So jealous!! I also ADORE summer camp. I went to Camp Olympia for five years as a kid, winning all the awards and “dating” boys for the three weeks I was there, and…
Bikes for Kids
This is the 13th year that JB and Sandy have frozen their asses off three mornings a week as they raise money to buy 800 Bikes for Kids each Christmas. One of my fave bloggers, Republic of Austin’s Chris, recounts his first biking story here, so I won’t tell you mine because that’d just be…
Lips of an Angel – Grounded in Music Benefit
I am a sucker for Jack Ingram. Not so much the man himself, but the voice … well, maybe just Lips of an Angel, because I like it when Hinder sang it too (although I never understood how they both released it at the same time, and the two don’t sound very different). ANYWAY, the…