Amplify Austin 2022: Support Our Neighbors in Central Texas

I Live Here, I Give Here is hosting its annual 24-hour charity marathon, “Amplify Austin.”  This “festival of giving” is a fast, fun, and easy way for anyone, even those outside of Austin, to assist local nonprofits with critical needs and support our community.

In 2021, Austinites raised over $12.5M for 684 Central Texas nonprofits! This year, in honor of their 10th annual Amplify Austin Day, I Live Here, I Give Here wants to reach their goal of getting 50,000 donors to support local nonprofits!

Fundraising will begin at 6 p.m. on March 2 and will last 24 hours! Visit the Amplify Austin website and make your donation today. Not sure which nonprofits you want to support? Check out our list of local nonprofits that offer our neighbors safe, fair, and affordable housing options — along with a host of other critical support services!

Support Austin Habitat for Humanity 

Austin Habitat for Humanity is on a mission to build a foundation of home and opportunity for Central Texans. In collaboration with hardworking local families, they are Framing the Future and working to end the cycle of poverty housing for generations of future Texans. In 2021, the Realty Austin team came together to build a home for our tenth deserving (and very groovy) Habitat family…and we had an absolute blast doing it!

Learn more about how you too can support the work of Austin Habitat for Humanity on their Amplify page.

DONATE HERE

Support Communtiy First! Village
Community First! Village is a 51-acre master-planned community that provides community along with affordable, permanent housing for the chronically homeless in Central Texas. Since 2005, this transformative residential program has been a staple of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and has become a model for uplifting and supporting our formerly unhoused neighbors. Check out Realty Austin Co-Founder & Chief Culture Officer Yvette Flores’s conversation with Mobile Loaves & Fishes founder Alan Graham.

Learn more about you can help spread the goodness at Community First! Village on their Amplify page.

DONATE HERE

Support the SAFE Alliance 

The SAFE Alliance is working to end the cycle of violence and abuse in Central Texas. They provide housing, support services, and prevention programs on behalf of survivors of sexual assault, trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse. One local group that raises thousands each year on behalf of the SAFE Alliance is Women of Hope. You can watch Yvette Flores’s conversation with the Women of Hope below.

Learn more about how you can help Stop Abuse For Everyone on SAFE's Amplify page. Interested in joining the Women of Hope? Learn more here.

Support Foundation Communities 

Foundation Communities provides affordable and attractive homes — along with free on-site support services — for thousands in our community, including veterans, seniors, families with children,  and individuals with disabilities. Check out Yvette Flores’s virtual conversation with the Executive Director of Foundation Communities, Walter Moreau.

Learn more about you can #NeighborUp and support Foundation Communities on their Amplify page. You can also RSVP for their virtual Amplify Kickoff event here!

Support Central Texas Table of Grace 

Since 2014, Central Texas Table of Grace has provided displaced foster children (between the ages of 6-17) with shelter, support, and care. Recently, the Table of Grace team began Phase 1 of Grace 365, a supervised independent living program for kids 18-21 who have aged out of foster care. To learn more about these amazing programs, check out Yvette Flores’s virtual conversation with Founder Stacy Johnson, Founder & CEO of Central Texas Table of Grace and Grace365.

Learn more about how you can support kids and teens in our community by visiting Central Texas Table of Grace’s Amplify page!

Even More Ways to Give Back 

Looking for even more ways to give back to our community? Here are a few more of our favorite local nonprofits that are working to support our neighbors in and around Austin. 

• Rebuilding Together Austin - Rebuilding Together Austin helps seniors, veterans, and individuals with disabilities access critical health and safety repairs so that they can live with dignity. In 2021, the Realty Austin team came together to rebuild the home of Navy veteran Bertram Allen. Check out our recap video here. 
• Family Eldercare - help keep seniors & adults with disabilities in our community stably housed, financially secure, and healthy by donating to Family Eldercare’ on their Amplify page.
• Brookwood in Georgetown (BiG) - Support BiG's mission to offer community, belonging, and meaningful careers to adults with disabilities by donating to their Amplify page. 
• Marbridge Foundation -help provide adults with disabilities with the community, belonging, and care that they deserve.  Learn more about their work and how you can help by visiting their Amplify page.
• Center for Child Protection - The Center for Child Protection is on a mission to end the cycle of child abuse in our community through advocacy, education, and community support. Learn more about their work and how you can help by visiting their Amplify page.
• Jeremiah Program - support single mothers & their families and help provide them with affordable housing, support services, and more. Learn more about how you can help by visiting their Amplify page.
• The Fair Deed Project - Support fair housing in our community and Help the fair deed project eradicate racial restrictive covenants. To support this important fair housing initiative, Realty Austin has pledged a $10,000 match fund! Join us by donating on their Amplify page today!

We’re For Here 

Realty Austin is on a mission to support safe and affordable housing for all with its We’re For Here campaign, a pledge to uplift neighbors in need of safe, affordable housing.