The Green Beret Foundation provides Special Forces Soldiers and their families with emergency and ongoing support.

Green Beret Foundation


ACMS offers opportunities to learn the joys of music for all ages and skill levels. 

The Armstrong Community Music School was founded on the principle that a high-quality music education should be available to everyone, regardless of circumstances. At ACMS you might see a small child attending an Early Childhood Music class while across the hall a grandparent goes to her first ever violin lesson. For 20 years, ACMS has provided Central Texans of all ages and skill levels the opportunity to express themselves through joyful music-making.

In conjunction with the excellent music instruction provided in-house, ACMS partners with local organizations to offer free programming for a wide variety of populations. Collectively these programs are known as the Harmony Initiative. Each program in the Harmony Initiative is designed by faculty and staff to meet the intellectual and situational needs of the communities they serve, positively impacting the lives of underserved populations with the power of music. These partnership programs include: 

Early Childhood Music programs and ukulele classes for the children of
The SAFE Alliance, the merger of Austin Children’s Shelter and SafePlace, Austin’s domestic violence shelter

Musical sing-alongs for the families of Todos Juntos Learning Center, an education center for immigrant and refugee families

We Are the Chorus and We Are the Chorus, Too!, choruses for individuals with special needs and their singing buddies

The Veterans Guitar Project, weekly guitar classes and performance opportunities for all veterans

Early Childhood Music classes at Travis and Navarro High School Child Development Centers for the children of teenage parents

Music for All: Creating Yes for Every Family, a collaboration with Education Service Center Region 13 providing twice monthly Early Childhood Music family classes to children with visual and mobility impairments

All Harmony Initiative endeavors share the goal of supporting health and well-being and are tailored to the needs of their populations. Studies indicate that sharing their stories can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and depression, and that arts engagement can aid in suicide prevention. Research has continued to show the developmental benefits of music education. Nevertheless, the decline in arts education is most drastic for underserved minorities. Your contribution to ACMS programs helps to fill the gap and provide individuals all the benefits of music-making.

Armstrong Community Music School

Home Street Music is a nonprofit that empowers people who have experienced homelessness through the healing power of music.

Home Street Music was founded in 2017 by Austin-based songwriter Vanessa Lively, to bring the healing power of music, creative self-expression, and community to the unhoused population in Austin by organizing and hosting weekly music circles.  Over the course of the last 7 years, the pilot program has developed and evolved in partnership with Community First Village to include not just the music circles, but public events, performances, and workshops.  In that time, we’ve grown from a one-woman labor-of-love operation, to a fully actualized 501(c)(3) non-profit with an active board of directors and a roster of acclaimed songwriters.  Our programs have had an incredible healing and transformative impact on the participants we’ve reached, and we feel that our organizational foundation is built-out to the point that the time is right to begin expanding the programs reach into new underserved communities.

Home Street Music hosts inclusive weekly music circles at Community First Village for people who have experienced homelessness, and who are working to reintegrate their lives back to self-sufficiency.  For cohesion and continuity, we organize our individual music circles into eight-week seasons, with four seasons per year.  We’ve found that clustering the circles into seasons allows deeper community to develop among the group, and for individuals' comfort levels to grow, and for the free flow of personal expression to blossom.

Each music circle is led by a professional “lead” songwriter, assisted by “co-lead” musician, and backed-up by a mental health professional (in partnership with the SIMS Foundation) to help monitor and mediate any strong feelings which might arise in the sharing of music together.  The weekly program for each circle is fluid and variable, largely group-led, facilitated by the lead songwriter.  It can include a combination of the group singing and playing old well-known favorite songs together, an individual sharing a song they have written themselves, and the group writing a song together to share in the collective experience of creative expression.

Each of these brings its own virtues to the individual participants, and to the community as a whole.  Sharing old favorite songs together helps everyone feel comfortable and at-home in a way that only a beloved song can, sometimes.  Sharing their own songs can give the participants a platform and spotlight to be seen and heard among their community in a way that the unhoused are very rarely afforded.  And writing songs together as a group gives each individual a voice among the circle of their peers, while also giving the collective group a unified voice with which to share their perspective with the outer world.  We’ve found that experience to be transformative and empowering to people who have largely felt the power of their voice diminished by the isolation of homelessness.

Participants in our programs can partake in as many or few of the circles’ activities as they feel comfortable.  Some just watch and listen.  Some take part in the music-making (and merry-making) at every level.  Participants aren’t required to commit to an entire season, but we’ve found that most individuals who attend one of the circles become regulars at most of the circles.

The feedback we’ve received from the participants of our circles (and the feedback from our community partners at Community First Village) has been extremely strong.  So much so, that the feedback is what’s fueled the growth and development of our whole program.  For many of our participants, these regular musical gatherings have become an essential component of their healing and restorative dignity.

In addition to the weekly music circles, we’ve begun to expand our program to include Community Concert Events, Workshops, and Paid Performances with other entities . . .

Our Community Concert Events are quarterly events that we organize ourselves, and which serve several worthy goals.  They shine a bright outreach spotlight onto Home Street, to let the greater Austin community know about the work we’re doing.  They give the music circle participants a group goal to work towards, as the group builds a performance repertoire to present to the public.  And the concerts are great fund raising opportunities, both for the organization and for the individual participants. We’re unwavering in our commitment to pay each participant a fair rate for their contribution at each concert event.

The Workshops, thus far, have coincided with our concert events.  We try to dovetail the theme of each concert with a workshop which complements that theme.  For instance, the theme of one of our concert events was “La Voz Latina” — and the accompanying program was a Vocal Workshop focussed on each individual finding the power of their own voice.  Primarily, our workshop leaders have been well-established professional Austin musicians, but as our Home Street circle participants gain more experience and more confidence, we’re hoping to place them in co-lead positions in our Workshops, as well.  Besides the empowerment that comes with achieving a leadership role within the community, workshop leaders will, again, be paid a fair wage for their contributions.

Paid Performances are opportunities we’ve been cultivating for the “bands” that form from within our music circles.  These are paid gigs that the bands can play at commercial venues, private events, and non-traditional pop-up venues.  We’ve found that the bands have been hired mostly because they’re legitimately great — they have incredible spirit and energy, genuine musical talent, and they’ve worked hard to be musically cohesive.  Again, each participant is paid a fair wage.  And these performances have as spiritually rewarding as financially rewarding.

We will continue to expand and evolve our programming to reach more people, and to further enrich and empower our participants.

Home Street Music

Safe In Austin Rescue Ranch is a sanctuary that rescues animals from severe abuse or neglect.

Our animals provide healing and hope to trauma, at-risk, and/or special needs people, these are the animals who triumph and inspire world-wide.

Safe in Austin's story began with a Great Pyrenees appropriately named, "Angel". 

Our family had always loved animals, but it wasn't until a discounted service dog Angel joined our family, that we would see just how magically an animal could transform lives.

Safe in Austin provides a loving home to animals who suffer from abuse or neglect because animals deserve to experience unconditional love.

Safe In Austin Rescue Ranch

Providing those diagnosed with cancer, their families and loved ones access to mental health therapy and family support. This includes access to traditional methods of psychological counseling, as well as an integrated

Flatwater Foundation is dedicated to providing those diagnosed with cancer, their families and loved ones access to mental health therapy and family support. 

Flatwater Foundation

King’s Compassion focuses on the elderly poor and homeless, and providing for their basic needs.

Our mission is to demonstrate God ‘s love by serving and becoming advocates and friends to the elderly poor of San Antonio, Texas, as we seek to provide for their basic physical, material and spiritual needs. Our hope is that we may all experience the fullness of God’s will and joy in our lives.

King's Compassion

A Gift Of Time-Adult Day Care is a nonprofit organization focused on providing human services. It is based in Georgetown, TX. It received its nonprofit status in 2017.

**A Gift of Time** achieves its mission by providing **free respite care, education, and support** for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. The organization offers a safe, enriching environment for participants while giving caregivers time to rest and recharge. Through dementia education, support groups, and partnerships like the **Maintaining Memory Skills Group**, A Gift of Time empowers families, reduces stigma, and builds a more compassionate community.

A Gift Of Time-Adult Day Care

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