Common Threads aspires to build communities that embrace healthy cooking, healthy eating and celebration of culture.

Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides children and families cooking and nutrition education to encourage healthy habits that contribute to wellness. We equip under-resourced communities with information to make affordable, nutritious and appealing food choices wherever they live, work, learn, and play. We know that food is rooted in culture and tradition so we promote diversity in our lessons and recipes, encouraging our participants to celebrate the world around them.

Common Threads

Our Vision: A family for every child in our lifetime.
Our Mission: To empower vulnerable children to reach their full potential. 

Miracle Foundation is an international nonprofit that helps orphans and foster children find a safe, stable, and permanent family. Whether in an orphanage or in the Foster Care System, our vision is a family for every child in our lifetime.

For the past 23 years, Miracle Foundation has been dedicated to improving the lives of children. In 2022 alone, we supported more than 170,000 children—and this is just the beginning.  Today, we are a world leader in ending the need for orphanages and ensuring children grow up in safe, stable families.  To achieve this, we are actively uniting children with families, partnering with frontline workers, preventing children from entering the system whenever possible, and stabilizing placements for children until they find a forever family. 

Founded in 2000, Miracle Foundation has consistently received the highest ratings from Charity Navigator and other watchdog organizations that assess charities' effectiveness and financial transparency.

Miracle Foundation

The Greater San Marcos Youth Council is a nonprofit organization serving abused and neglected children ages 2-17 since 1986.  

Mission: Shelter children, strengthen families.

GSMYC is a human services agency with programs designed to accomplish our mission of sheltering children and strengthening families. 

History

In 1986, in response to the legislative mandate that runaways could no longer be housed with adult inmates, a group of concerned citizens organized and developed the Greater San Marcos Youth Council (1986) to provide shelter to maltreated children. As a private, non-profit, our 16 bed residential program exists as an alternative home for children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. In 1990, GSMYC added non-residential prevention and intervention services to support children remaining in their homes.  

Our goal is show children they are here through no fault of their own and that they will be safe with us. We give them our respect and make every effort to allow them their dignity. With the overall goal of establishing a trusting relationship with at least one adult during their stay, so that he/she will know that not all grown-ups will hurt them and that they are worthy of love and respect. 

The children who come to the shelter operated by GSMYC are seeking refuge from abuse or neglect. Serving as temporary caregivers for these children, we are responsible for meeting their physical and emotional needs. Many arrive with little else save the clothes on their backs. We take care of them with genuine love and care, until a more permanent home can be found. 

Goals of our non-residential program are to strengthen families through our youth and family services available to Hays County residents and youth who are eligible to attend Hays County schools. Our objective is to reduce child maltreatment, truancy, juvenile delinquency, as well as, increase families’ protective factors and resiliency to crisis. These services include; child and family counseling, parenting classes and anger management classes, youth and family advocacy, case management, and delinquency and truancy intervention, as well as a 24-hour toll-free crisis hotline available year-round by youth and family counselors at 1-800-457-0797.
 
Values

The safety and needs of the children in care take precedence over all else with what is best for each child as the guiding principle. Individuals connected with GSMYC will always conduct themselves in an ethical and professional manner exhibiting initiative, genuine caring and a positive attitude. Creating and maintaining a relaxed and friendly environment benefits both clients and employees. Investing in employees is an investment in clients. Additional values GSMYC employees and volunteers will exhibit are optimism, flexibility, empathy, compassion, respect for others.  The dignity of those we serve is ours to preserve and it is our responsibility to provide them with opportunities for success, growth and learning. 

Vision

Our vision is that every child born will be raised by a loving and supportive family who possess the skills and resources necessary to raise competent and productive citizens, therefore eradicating child abuse and neglect. 

GSMYC’s Elevator Speech

…….operates a residential program for abused and neglected children ages 2-17 who have been removed from home with a free counseling and resource center for families and their children ages 6-18 who live in Hays County or attend Hays County schools.

Tag line: Doing what’s best for kids…yours, mine, and ours. 







Greater San Marcos Youth Council (GSMYC)

Our mission is to uplift the next gen of womxn in music through education, experience, and role-modeling programs.


Herizon Music Foundation

Ladies Lets Talk is a nonprofit organization that helps refugee and immigrant women achieve belonging in their new community.

We connect them with women volunteers for:

- Language practice        

- Navigating daily life

- Friendship and sisterhood

Ladies Lets Talk

Knowbility's mission is to create an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities. 

Knowbility leads the way to digital equity with and for disabled people. Since 1999, we have advocated for born-accessible technology. Our Community Programs and Accessibility Services teams teach, train, and promote inclusive and accessible design across all sectors and industry. We help make the Internet and other technologies accessible to people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, have limited mobility, and have cognitive or learning disabilities. Our goal is to create a barrier-free world of information technology so that people with disabilities can fully participate in the business, educational, and cultural marketplace and reach their full potential. Through education, awareness, and advocacy, we work to ensure equal access to technology for the over one billion disabled people around the world.

Knowbility

/TCCrBI5EqP2Im7KXQP5SZ93Hp6Q7+Eo+PBhsHwB+Kk=

We are a nonprofit, so instead of charging fees we rely on the generosity of donors like you.

Choose a donation for Every.org

21UazRTR3WkHCNYCFomS3+Fv4xxIPlKnGtLvQzlgpPk=

960tty1IQBN52fNAKCJ5MsbZa/kwpdUEomQrCmswxFM=

Monthly donations help nonprofits focus on mission and long-term impact, not fundraising. Cancel anytime.

9aikRqBfR5m43tT1CpxGOUX1iDUU+d+jUDsu2EOdGXw=

ABw3Pfc4/GrqkJ+aQcpVL5qQEs95LvaGAbAInbPgYNA=

AYubnnStGbcU9CeeHevoKfWFfHSV2AwooDDxbZyyBMI=

DkKEvILtcaLU/DwWDyD3nTV5+BuWKCijCGsrl36AK9M=

Kc7r3ieg0BJyCztmGf0I/8Jlmo02T4vymMmBJ0WYd9s=

MYnTRn3i6QlhFXMSgsKOvwB167EwCHFS+EglNMy70AE=

N6J6uC2BFpY1DBCCNGARPn6U5PWj+hjtybLRiPtieQE=