Wedding Industry Outreach

Click on a charity for more information on their organization and to make a donation. If you make a donation of at least $100.00 total, please go here and receive one business card style card per expected guest that will tell your guests at your wedding that you've made a donation in their honor:

AIDS Services of Austin
512-458-2437 • www.asaustin.org
What we do: The mission of AIDS Services of Austin (ASA) is to respond to the HIV needs of the Austin area by providing services that enhance the health and well-being of individuals and the community in the face of an evolving epidemic. In response to the AIDS epidemic, AIDS Services of Austin began in 1984 as Waterloo Counseling Center's Austin AIDS Project, and incorporated in 1987 as AIDS Services of Austin, a non-profit organization. We have grown from an all-volunteer organization to a professional agency of fifty staff, complemented by hundreds of volunteers and serving almost 1500 HIV-positive Central Texans each year. ASA is the largest community-based provider of HIV/AIDS social services and dental care in Central Texas, responding to the growing need for care and prevention.

Any Baby Can
512-454-3743 • www.abcaus.org
What we do: Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center has served Austin/Travis County and its surrounding communities since 1979 as a premiere, comprehensive family service organization. Any Baby Can's mission is to ensure that all children reach their potential through education, therapy, and family support services. Each year, Any Baby Can brings help and hope to more than 6,000 of Austin's youngest, sickest, and poorest children.

Austin Community Foundation
512-472-4483 • www.austincommunityfoundation.org
What we do: The Austin Community Foundation is the heart of philanthropic giving in Central Texas. Created in 1977 with a $30,000 gift from Fanny Gray Leo, the Foundation has grown over the past 30 years to more than $100 million in assets. The Austin Community Foundation is a unique, not-for-profit connection between donors from all walks of life and the broad spectrum of efforts that improve our evolving community. The Foundation brings an efficiency of scale to donors, allowing charitable dollars to go as far as possible toward improving life for all Central Texans.

Austin Humane Society
512-646-7387 • www.austinhumanesociety.org/give
What we do: The Austin Humane Society (AHS) is the city's largest no-kill, non-profit pet adoption center dedicated to saving Austin's homeless cats and dogs and educating our community about responsible pet ownership and reducing pet overpopulation.

Austin Mobile Loaves and Fishes
512-328-7299 102 • www.mlfnow.org/site/PageServer
What we do: Mobile Loaves & Fishes, Inc. (MLF) is a social outreach ministry for the homeless and indigent working poor. We were founded in 1998 as a ministry of St. John Neumann and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2000. Our mission is to provide food, clothing, and dignity to our brothers and sisters in need. We accomplish this mission through the use of 12 catering trucks that go out onto the city streets of Austin, San Antonio, New Orleans, Providence, and Nashville every night of the week, thanks to the hard work of our almost 10,000 volunteers and a single supply truck.

Austin Smiles
512-451-9300 • www.austinsmiles.org
What we do: Austin Smiles is a nonprofit organization which provides reconstructive plastic surgery, primarily cleft lip and palate repairs, to the children of Austin and the 10 county area surrounding Austin and in various locations in Latin America. The physicians of Austin Smiles perform 50-75 surgeries annually at Children's Hospital of Austin. Austin Smiles also travels to Latin America to do several medical missions a year. Since it was founded in 1987, Austin Smiles has completed over 4,500 corrective surgeries to children and those needing assistance.

Capital Area Food Bank
512-282-2111 • austinfoodbank.org
What we do: In its 29th year of service, the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas (CAFB) provides food and grocery products to more than 350 Partner Agencies in 21 Central Texas counties. In 2009, CAFB provided more than 23 million pounds of food. The CAFB service area covers 19,064 square miles in Central Texas.

Caritas of Austin
512-479-4610 • www.caritasofaustin.org
What we do: Caritas founded in 1964 by Father Richard McCabe to fill the gap between needs of poor and the benefits of public assistance. Continues to serve the homeless, working poor and documented refugees. Over the past 45 years, Caritas has added programs and enhanced existing services to meet Austin's changing needs. With a budget of over $6.4 millian and a staff of 54, we now serve over 20,000 men, women and children per year.

EarthShare of Texas
512-472-5518 • www.earthshare-texas.org
What we do: EarthShare of Texas is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation is committed to making environmental support as easy as possible by giving working people the ability to donate through workplace payroll contribution campaigns. Founded by its member charities in 1988, EarthShare is an opportunity for environmentally-conscious employees and workplaces to support hundreds of environmental groups through a charitable giving drive. EarthShare of Texas participates in campaigns at hundreds of public and privates sector workplaces.
Today EarthShare of Texas represents and supports more than 70 of America's most respected environmental and conservation groups, including 39 national organizations and hundreds of local groups in 18 affiliates. EarthShare of Texas' member organizations work hard every day to safeguard your health and the environment by combating global warming, protecting ancient forests, protecting our water from toxic contaminants, saving endangered species and so much more. All of these efforts are supported by EarthShare of Texas' mission.

Family Crisis Center
512-303-7755 • www.family-crisis-center.org
What we do: The Bastrop County Womens Shelter, dba Family Crisis Center started in 1981 from a coalition of rural Texas women with a shared vision of offering hope, support, and assistance to women victimized by domestic violence. Since becoming an incorporated nonprofit in 1983, the Center has evolved into a community leader in rural Central Texas. The Center recently celebrated 25 years of service offering victims of domestic and sexual violence safety, shelter, and advocacy; a milestone made possible by the enduring commitment of the Center’s clients, staff members, volunteers, donors, and community partners, both organizations and individuals.

Hotels For Hope
512-691-9555 • www.hotelsforhope.org
What we do: Hotels for Hope is dedicated to enriching the lives of children across the world. A room night booked equals a smile on a child’s face. Hotels for Hope is a social enterprise that has created a new culture associated with booking hotel accommodations. Each of Austin Hospitality’s contracted hotels is asked to include a $1 charitable contribution to one of our partner charities, whose missions are dedicated to positively impacting children. Austin Hospitality then matches these donations, dollar for dollar. In short, each room night generates $2 for Hotels for Hope. Those donations are in turn divided between LiveStrong, Special Olympics, Glimmer of Hope and Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, T.A.P.S.

Keri's Fairy Godmother Foundation
512-507-6364 • www.austinfairygodmother.org • Keri Byer
What we do: The Fairy Godmother Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to identify girls in Austin and surrounding areas who, despite many hardships would like to attend their Prom, Homecoming, or any other special event that requires a formal dress, but may not have the financial resources to do so. We will ensure every young lady in need makes it to her special event, whether it is her Prom, Wedding, Homecoming, Quinceañera, school play, or Sweet 16.

Meals on Wheels
512-476-6325 • www.mealsonwheelsandmore.org
What we do: This year, MOWAM celebrates 37 years of service in the Greater Austin area. What began as a program of eight volunteers serving 29 seniors has now expanded into a multi-service organization of 5,000 volunteers serving almost 2,500 elderly and disabled persons each day. Aside from preparing an average of 936,009 meals in 2008 year, MOWAM also offers many other programs designed to keep people healthy and living in their own homes. MOWAM is a 501 c 3 organization and is independent and locally-run. We are a member of the Meals on Wheels Association of America, but receive no funds from it.

Project Life Change
projectlifechange@gmail.com • www.projectlifechange.com
What we do: Project Life Change aims to define the essence of Matthew 25 in today's society. “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” - Matthew 25:35-36 (NIV) We provide assistance to the more than 200 homeless students in the Leander Independent School District in the form of school supplies, free breakfasts and lunches, dorm style housing and tutoring.

SafePlace
512-267-7233 • www.safeplace.org
What we do: SafePlace exists to end sexual and domestic violence through safety, healing, prevention and social change. Safeplace provides Safety for individuals and families affected by sexual and domestic violence. Safeplace helps victims in their Healing so they can move beyond being defined by the crimes committed against them, and become Survivors. We also promote safe and healthy relationships for the Prevention of sexual and domestic violence. Safeplace works with others to create Change in attitudes, behaviors and policies that perpetuate the acceptance of, and impact our understanding and responses to, sexual and domestic violence.

Soldiers' Angels
shellemichaels@soldiersangels.org • www.soldiersangels.org
What we do: Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and their families. Founded by the mother of two American soldiers, its hundreds of thousands of Angel volunteers assist veterans, wounded and deployed personnel and their families in a variety of unique and effective ways, including care packages, letters, emergency aid, and communication supplies.

The Smile Never Fades
512-444-5424 • www.thesmileneverfades.com • Bill Bastas
This effort is dedicated to the fight we must all join: against breast cancer. We raise money to help those who need it most, when they need it most. We also help provide funds for support groups-large and small, national and local-such as Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Austin. Breast cancer attacks the most beautiful among us... our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. Not to mention the great toll it takes on friends and families. Bill Bastas, an Austin Professional Photographer, is the author of 4 books, that feature cancer survivors. The purchase of "The Smile Never Fades" will help in the fight. All profits generated by the book or this website will be donated to breast cancer research, or to helping fund organizations that help the victims of this devastating disease.

Truth Be Told
512-292-6200 • www.truth-be-told.org
What we do: Truth Be Told is a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization providing transformational tools for women behind and beyond bars. Our programs provide respectful listening and creative tools for personal and spiritual growth for incarcerated women. We encourage in them a deeper sense of personal responsibility and help them face the truth of their pasts and embrace the hope of their futures. The founders of Truth Be Told walk a path of spiritual growth that includes elements of traditional spirituality, 12-step wisdom, and openness to the mysterious ways of God. We pray together, both aloud and in silence, seeking to create everything we do in collaboration with our Creator, who we believe welcomes all seekers.