2009 Recipients

• Ballet East Dance Company
  
• GENaustin
• Capital IDEA
  
• YouthLaunch
• People's Community Clinic
  

2008 Recipients

• Breakthrough
• Ecology Action
• Goodwill Industries
• SafePlace
• Southwest Key Programs

2007 Recipients

• Adoption Coalition
• College Forward
• Indigent Care Collaboration
• Rude Mechanicals

2006 Recipients

• The Children’s Wellness Center
• EmanciPet, Inc.
• Literacy Austin

2005 Recipients

• Communities In Schools
• Austin Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation (ATCMHMR)

2004 Recipient

• LifeWorks

In 2005, two grant recipients each received $100,500.

Grant recipient:	Communities In Schools
Project:	XY-Zone Project

Group of volunteers and young men in the XY-Zone Project

Communities In Schools is Central Texas’ leading dropout prevention program. Through campus-based programs and special projects, Communities In Schools creates a network of volunteers, social services, businesses and community resources that work together to break down barriers and help students succeed.

The XY-Zone Project supports at-risk young men on their journey into manhood by teaching the core values of respect, responsibility, relationships, role models and reaching out. Impact Austin’s grant funds the salaries of two full-time caseworkers—one each at two different high school campuses in the Austin Independent School District. The grant also provides funds for related materials, community service projects and field trips for the 50 young men (ages 13 to 18) on each campus who participate in the XY-Zone Project.

For more information on Communities In Schools, visit www.cisaustin.org.

Grant recipient:	Austin Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation (ATCMHMR)
Project:	Community Voice Mail

Teresa Jedinak, Program Director, works with client to set up a voice mailbox

ATCMHMR serves people whose lives are seriously affected by developmental disabilities, mental, emotional and substance use disorders. ATCMHMR envisions an understanding community that respects and accepts each person’s differences and responds with compassionate, comprehensive and quality services. 

With Community Voice Mail, ATCMHMR offers support to smaller social service agencies that do not have the infrastructure and/or staff to set up voice mail communications with their clients. Voice mailboxes play a critical role in assisting clients who do not have telephone service in obtaining jobs, medical care, housing and other important services. Impact Austin’s grant provides funds for various start-up costs associated with the project that will provide more than 1,000 voice mailboxes to clients in the Central Texas area.

For more information on ATCMHMR, visit www.atcmhmr.com.