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2009 Recipients
2008 Recipients
 _____________________ Impact Austin P.O. Box 28148 Austin, TX 78755 (512) 335-5540 _____________________ |
In 2009, five grant recipients each received $102,000 from Impact Austin.Culture Grant Recipient: Ballet East Dance Company  The Eastside Dance Academy program is a two-year program that will create a structured and transformative dance program at Eastside Memorial High School. The program will help draw and hold approximately 400 students in school by offering them the opportunity to connect to a positive group activity, attract attention by acquiring the self-discipline, skills, and confidence to perform, and help them see and plan beyond their present circumstances. Dance professionals who have made important careers for themselves will provide instruction in contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, and theater dance, and students will work toward presenting their own performances. Additional instruction in nutrition, fitness, and health, together with etiquette and comportment as audience members, performers, partners, and in groups will be provided as additional opportunities. For more details, visit: www.balleteast.org Education Grant Recipient: GENaustin  GENaustin will expand its in-school and after-school programs for girls in four middle schools serving economically disadvantaged students — C.D. Fulkes and Chisholm Trail in Round Rock ISD, and Manor and Decker in Manor ISD. Services provided will include the clubGEN after-school program and the in-school Girls Now workshop series. GENaustin hires high school girls as mentors for the middle school girls while also providing them with financial literacy, career building, resume writing, and other training. Through this program GENaustin will help ensure 280 young women have a dynamic, exciting, and high quality experience exploring topics such as peer relationships, diversity, and healthy bodies. For more details, visit: www.genaustin.org Family Grant Recipient: Capital IDEA  The Career Paths for Rural Families project will transform the lives of up to 50 families living in poverty in rural Travis, Williamson, Bastrop and Hays counties by sponsoring education and providing personal development assistance to the heads of household. This education will allow them to obtain a degree or certification toward a career that pays a true living wage and offers benefits. The project will pay for participant’s tuition, fees, books, childcare, transportation and emergency expenses, as well as provide case management to keep each participant motivated in their coursework and to assist them in times of personal need. Twenty-five individuals will graduate and enter career employment within the two-year project period, transforming the long-term economic prospects of their families. An additional 20 will complete 3 or more semesters of coursework and will graduate after the two-year Project period. For more details, visit: www.capitalidea.org Environment Grant Recipient: YouthLaunch  YouthLaunch is a youth-development organization that changes the lives of young people in Austin and throughout Central Texas by providing them with community service opportunities that expand their outlook on life, work, and their ability to improve the world around them. Urban Roots is the latest undertaking by YouthLaunch. Urban Roots uses sustainable agriculture as means to effect lasting change for youth participants and nourish East Austin residents who currently have limited access to healthy foods. It also seeks to develop environmental activists and community leaders by offering young people an opportunity to learn firsthand about sustainable food production. On an urban organic farm, our project provides employment, life, leadership and job skills, and service opportunities to under-served youth aged 14-17 in East Austin. The interns harvest and distribute the produce through a variety of outlets, all while learning firsthand about sustainable agriculture. Teeming with life, this urban farm functions as a catalyst for positive change, helping to develop a healthier, more vibrant community. For more details, visit: www.youthlaunch.org Health and Wellness Grant Recipient: People's Community Clinic  The People’s Community Clinic will use the Impact Austin grant to operate its Healthy Babies Initiative, which will expand PCC’s existing efforts to improve the health of the uninsured and medically underserved children of our community by adding weekly Saturday pediatric clinics, piloting a multi-hour group visit model for children’s well-child checks and introducing a program geared to increase the number of nursing mothers among their patients. PCC used the well-regarded March of Dimes “Entering Pregnancy” curriculum as the model for their successful group pre-natal visits. PCC’s success in this implementation provides the basis for the development of this new, innovative program to conduct group well-child checks to an additional 300 infants and children annually. For more details, visit: www.austinpcc.org |
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