Ten Years of Serving
When a woman is pregnant for the first time, she has dozens of questions and gets just as many opinions from friends and family. How can she figure out the best choices for her and her baby? Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), celebrating 10 years of partnership with Any...
Student Transportation
All K-12 students can now ride Capital Metro services for free, the agency announced in December. Students use the transit service to get to school, after-school activities, tutoring, libraries, jobs and more. Following a pilot program in June that offered free fares...
Dental Health
Former UT football star and current NFL football player Michael Griffin dropped by Cook Elementary in Austin ISD to encourage kids to brush up on their dental health. Students in grades K–2 participated in activities and lessons such as using larger-than-life...
Recipe Winner
A first-grader at Joe Dan Mills Elementary School in Austin ISD got a surprise in December when he was awarded the grand prize in the Ben’s Beginners Cooking Contest. Sam Thyng submitted a recipe for Creepy Calzones with Squirmy, Wormy Rice to the contest run by Uncle...
Holiday Gifts
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas hosted its annual Santa's Workshop for families and children who are spending the holidays at the Ronald McDonald House and Ronald McDonald Family Rooms. Families and their children were able to select gifts donated by...
Nonprofit Donation
The owners of ThunderCloud Subs presented its largest single donation ever from the proceeds of the ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot — $350,000 — to Caritas of Austin today. ThunderCloud has now raised nearly $3.8 million over the Trot’s 28-year history. The ThunderCloud...
Community Service Prize
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes will accept online applications beginning Jan. 2, 2019. The prize celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from across the U.S. and Canada. Established in 2001 by author T.A. Barron, the prize annually honors 25...
Scholarship Deadline
Texas 5th through 9th graders, take heed: the application deadline for Texas Match the Promise Foundation℠ scholarship awards is Dec. 31, 2018. Match the Promise scholarship awards are available if: you are the beneficiary of a Texas Tuition Promise Fund® (TTPF)...
Barbecue Champs
The smoked meat elite gathered for the Texas High School BBQ Regional Cook-off competition in Belton in November. Seven teams of Central Texas high school students faced off in one of the country’s largest vocational education cooking competitions. The winners, Burnet...
Pregnancy Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UT Austin a $1.2 million Smart and Connected Health grant to better understand pregnancy and pregnancy care in the U.S. Researchers plan to use smartphone applications to monitor the activity and behavior of 1,000...
Community Service
Univision recently launched its first Unidos Por Los Nuestros (United for Each Other) day of service in cities nationwide. Hundreds of employees rallied together in support of community service initiatives that align with the company’s mission to empower and inform...
Pet Food Drive
Tomlinson’s Feed is hosting its annual Pound4Pound pet food drive at its 15 Austin-area stores through Dec. 24. For every bag of food donated in stores, Tomlinson’s and five of its pet food suppliers will match the donation - pound for pound. Food collected during the...
