2022 Glimmer|Austin Partners
Welcome to the Glimmer Austin Family! Together, we will continue to care and help those experiencing poverty within our neighboring communities.
Read below to view each partners mission and great works.
2022 PARTNER RECIPIENTS
Seed Grants
These are one-year grants of around $20,000 invested in startup and/or early-stage nonprofits who have started to show potential and have established momentum and are looking for funding and support to get off the ground or expand.
Homelessness
The Charlie Center serves every person with compassion and excellence, taking a process-driven, holistic case management approach to help individuals navigate from “homeless to housed.” G|A is providing support for a “P-T Program Assistant” that will assist with basic case management, coordinated housing assessments, assistance with accessing medical care, social security benefits, and support obtaining an ID needed for employment and housing.
Trinity Center is dedicated to feed, care for and offer services that are aimed at eliminating barriers to being housed for many who are homeless in Austin. G|A is supporting their mission to offer compassion and tangible services to our most vulnerable neighbors, with an understanding and specific focus that women and female identified are the least served and the most at risk amongst the homeless population.
The Other Ones Foundation offers humanitarian aid, temporary shelters, case management, and extremely low-barrier work opportunities to people experiencing homelessness in central Texas. G|A is providing funds to assist with launching the “Going Home Initiative”, a program providing case management and minimal transportation allowances to connect homeless individuals with their immediate families or relatives that may be able to provide shelter and a stable environment.
Hunger & Food Insecurity
Sunday Lunchbox works to improve access to local, healthy foods for families facing food insecurity by providing nutritious meals on Sundays. G|A is supporting their expanded “Lunchbox Family Program” which includes funding for operational support (wages), kitchen appliances (dehydrators) required for processing food donations, packaging, and other materials needed for delivery kits.
Angel House Soup Kitchen serves the poor and homeless who suffer from the lack of basic human and material needs such as food and clothing. G|A supports the overall efforts of the Soup Kitchen and its ability to offer hot meals (breakfast and lunch every day) along with other essential services for their guests in an encouraging, respectful, and a dignified manner.
Women & Children’s Shelter
Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center creates an environment where violence and abuse are not tolerated in the communities we live and serve. G|A is providing funding for an additional “Case Manager” who will work to offer educational opportunities, violence prevention services, emergency shelter, and crisis intervention for victims of family violence, dating violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and transitional housing for families.
The Settlement Home for Children, one of a few residential programs for girls and young women in Texas, promotes healing and growth by providing a continuum of care, direct support, and additional resources for each young resident. Grant funding from G|A enables “The Home” to provide competitive wages to hire and retain eight additional Houseparents for their shelter cottages.
Substance Abuse & Recovery
Communities For Recovery operates a recovery community center which provides peer-based support services for persons with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring mental health conditions. G|A is supporting the hire of a “Program Coordinator” that will help with resource navigation, educational classes, employment guidance, reception, and telephonic recovery calls.Growth Grants
Growth grants are for organizations where Glimmer Austin looks to identify leaders and programs that possess the capacity to grow and need funds to do so.
Homelessness
Saffron Trust Women’s Foundation provides dedicated advice, peer assistance, case management, food and other basic needs aimed at helping break the cycle of domestic violence and generational poverty for women and children. G|A is supporting the organization’s plan to grow and increase their capacity to serve, enable, and empower women with direct, streamlined access to life-supporting resources, counseling, and other social services.
Change 1 offers one-on-one guidance, professional support, and innovative developmental practices to young people “aging out” of the foster care system and faced with the challenges of transitioning to adulthood. With support from G|A, Change 1 will increase their full-time staffing capacity and onsite resources for their young adult clients, as well as offer innovative training opportunities for nonprofit organizations and public / private partnerships focusing on improving the foster care system.
LifeWorks is a direct service organization and community influencer serving young adults with histories of homelessness, systems involvement, early parenthood, and complex trauma. G|A supports their “Workforce Development Program” which serves youth who are extremely low income, pregnant, parenting, at risk of or experiencing homelessness, and/or exiting foster care and juvenile justice systems.
Mission Accomplished equips individuals and families with the tools and resources that will allow them to live a more prosperous, stable, and healthy lifestyle. G|A is providing funding for staffing and the overall organizational support for “Operation Clean Clothes,” a program offering mobile laundry services and information regarding community resources available for those individuals experiencing homelessness.
Sunrise Navigation Center is focused on rendering aid, behavioral health care, substance abuse support and housing navigation to the homeless community. With the implementation of a Mobile Hotline and Hub Expansion, they have increased their visibility and care for more than 300+ clients a day. G|A is providing funds to support their efforts to launch this program specifically for the homeless in the central Texas region.
Street Youth Ministry provides homeless youth, many that have aged out of the foster system, a safe place to find food, clothing, and resources needed to survive while living on the streets. As a result of having to close during the pandemic, the center provided virtual services, helplines, curbside food delivery, and numerous outdoor programs to support the youth. G|A supports SYM’s “Technology Opportunity Program” offering homeless youth the virtual and/or digital skills to successfully navigate today’s work, social, and living environments.
Women & Children’s Shelter
Casa Marianella welcomes displaced immigrants and promotes self-sufficiency by providing, initially, the basic necessities of life – food, shelter, and clothing. G|A invests in and supports the expansion of services allowing more families to receive access to medical care and counseling, English classes, assistance in acquiring benefits, finding jobs, learning how to travel by bus, enrolling their children in school, saving for an apartment, and acculturating to the U.S. from countries all over the world.
Saint Louise House empowers and enables women and children to overcome homelessness by providing extremely low-income and stable housing, mentorships, and highly individualized wraparound services leading to long-term economic security. G|A is providing support to hire an “Admissions Specialist” that will be trained to use Austin’s “Coordinated Assessment System” and will work closely with ECHO (Ending Community Homelessness Coalition) to assist with effectively and efficiently placing women and children that may be waiting for shelter.
Strategic Grants
Strategic grants are multi-year and less frequent, ranging from $100,000 to $350,000. Glimmer Austin researches and selects the organizations that receive these types of grants. In most cases, decisions are made in conjunction with donor partners who co-fund the grant.
Homelessness
Community First! Village
is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women experiencing chronic homelessness. G|A supports the overall vision for this transformative residential program that offers a wide variety of services and basic assistance, along with loving-kindness and a “renewed sense of hope” for many of our homeless brothers and sisters.
ECHO is the lead organization that plans and implements community-wide strategies to end homelessness in Austin and Travis County. ECHO’s Homeless Response System (HRS) relies on collaborating with “people with lived experience” of homelessness (PLE), community partners, and equity advocates who represent marginalized communities. As a strategic grant, G|A feels strongly that it is essential and imperative to offer support and a source of “dignified income” to homeless citizens who are being brought into the planning and decision-making process, in order that their voices can be heard when planning how best to distribute funding and develop programs for the unhoused.
Substance Abuse & Recovery
fosters a supportive, physically active community for individuals who are recovering from a substance use disorder & those who choose to live sober. G|A serves as the founding sponsor / partner enabling the organization to establish a presence in the Austin / Central Texas geographical area. Since its inception in September 2021, Phoenix – Austin’s growth and participants engaged have outpaced every other Phoenix affiliate in the nation.