I love cookies, and I love what the group Austin Bakes is doing with bake sales to support people close to home and far away (remember Austin Bakes for Japan? It raised almost $12,000). Saturday, October 1st from 10a to 2p, hundreds of bakers, bloggers, businesses, and consumers will unite for Austin Bakes for Bastrop, a…
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Austin: Ferris Bueller’s Day on 6th Street
2nd Annual 6ixth Street Benefit Free Alamo Rolling Roadshow: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF A fundraiser to clean up and revitalize Austin’s downtown entertainment district, the sunset screening hosted by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and parkside restaurant will be a sreet party on San Jacinto, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Gates open at 7:30p and the movie begins at 9p. Admission is free…
Austin: Praise, Pies & Pinatas at HOPE Farmer’s Market
Hope Farmers Market is putting on Praise, Pies & Pinatas during the regularly scheduled market time, 10am-2pm, Sunday, June 26. There will be a FREE Pie social, with coffee and ice cream, pinata workshops and smashing, and praise music from Son Armados and Anthropos Arts! Also, proceeds from donations will benefit Out Youth, a non-profit…
Relief for the South through a Tee
I love the trend of buying a tee to support a cause: not only do you then donate money to the cause, but you advertise it every time you wear the tee. AND you get a cute tee to wear! Souther designer Billy Reid is selling this tee and donating 100% of the profits directly…
Help Attack!
Penny for your tweet? Help Attack! is a new Austin-based company that allows people to pledge a small amount for each Tweet (or soon each status update, check in, blog post–anything online and countable) to their favorite nonproft. This tweet could be worth $$$. Or at least cents. It doesn’t matter what the content is,…
Austin: New Local Daily Deal Site GivShop
Only in Austin, where deal sites populate the city like musicians, would we have a new daily deal site that gives back–as in, 50% of your purchase price goes back to a non-profit of your choice. How ridiculously cool is that? Hello GivShop. Joining Groupon, LivingSocial, aDealio, Localiter, and Eversave, GivShop offers similar fare to…
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…
April Big Hearts Bag Giveaway
Buy A Bag, Donate A Bag During j’tote bags’ April Big Hearts Bag Giveaway. You buy one of their luxurious, fashionable, handy (padded!) laptop bags, and they’ll donate one to one of three non-profits they’ve chosen–but you select which one. I own two of these bags (the Saoirse and the Grainne, pictured, if you’re curious)…
Volunteer for Christmas!
An article in the Statesman today, Charities Suffering in Ailing Economy, focuses on how charities are suffering in this slow economy, especially with cash donations. It cites some scary statistics (“Contributions to the American Red Cross of Central Texas have decreased nearly 50 percent”?!?!) but also goes on to say that there are some bright…
Awww, sweet Dishola deal – donate food with minimal effort
Aside from clicking that bowl of rice that donates to starving children in Asia (it took me awhile to find this link again, where you donate rice for every vocab word you know … pretty awesome), I don’t know of many easier ways to donate food to those in need than this: Dishola (plus Whole…