Founded in 2006, Explore Austin combines the benefits of mentoring and outdoor adventure in a six-year program for 6th through 12th grade inner-city youth. Focusing on team building and leadership training by utilizing its unique ACES framework, Explore Austin helps “Explorers” (we refer to participants as Explorers) increase self-confidence, build character, and develop a sense of responsibility for themselves and those around them. With seven Saturday Events and a week long Summer Wilderness Trip to remote destinations, Explore Austin seeks and attracts motivated students who desire to learn how to become leaders, experience new places, make lasting friendships, and seek challenges. Our hands-on approach and belief in learning by doing means our Explorers leave the program more confident, more experienced, and ready to lead.

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Equality Texas advocates and lobbies for the elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. 
Equality Texas Foundation educates and engages the public about policies and their effect on Texans of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

Founded in 1967 as the Environmental Defense Fund, we tackle the most serious environmental problems with:Sound science - Economic incentives - Corporate partnerships - Getting the law right. How do we at EDF change the world? We find new ways to take ideas grounded in science and scale them up to transform entire sectors.

Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) is dedicated to planning, prioritizing, and developing strategies to end homelessness in Austin, TX. The overall role of the ECHO is to identify specific strategies and to oversee ongoing planning efforts and implementation of the Plan to End Community Homelessness.

The mission of El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission is to transform lives by engaging the strengths of working-poor Hispanic families to promote their successful participation in society. Since 1987, we have fulfilled a unique role in Austin as a provider of integrated health care, English-as-Second-Language education, job readiness skills, social services, health education, leadership training, children programs and emergency food assistance for working-poor Hispanic families.

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Since 1937, Easter Seals Central Texas (originally chartered as the Texas Society for Crippled Children), has been providing services to children and adults with disabilities and their caregivers. In 1949, a small building was dedicated as the Austin Cerebral Palsy Center serving a small population of Central Texas residents. Almost twenty years later, it became the Capital Area Rehabilitation Center, expanding its services, programs and persons served. In 1985, the Capital Area Rehabilitation Center became an official affiliate of the Easter Seals National and was renamed The Capital Area Easter Seals Society. Finally, in 1998, the name was changed to Easter Seals Central Texas. In 2006 ESCT opened its Hays County Workforce Development office and in 2007 Easter Seals moved its headquarters to the current location at 1611 Headway Circle. 2010 brough more change as ESCT expended to include more comprehensive community and housing services. Easter Seals Central Texas currently provides over 7,000 local children and adults with quality, person-centered services and support.

EarthShare of Texas is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation is committed to making environmental support as easy as possible by giving working people the ability to donate through workplace payroll contribution campaigns. Founded by its member charities in 1988, EarthShare is an opportunity for environmentally-conscious employees and workplaces to support hundreds of environmental groups through a charitable giving drive. EarthShare of Texas participates in campaigns at hundreds of public and privates sector workplaces.

Today EarthShare of Texas represents and supports more than 70 of America's most respected environmental and conservation groups, including 39 national organizations and hundreds of local groups in 18 affiliate states. EarthShare of Texas' member organizations work hard every day to safeguard your health and the environment by combating global warming, protecting ancient forests, protecting our water from toxic contaminants, saving endangered species and so much more. All of these efforts are supported by EarthShare of Texas' mission.

The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Founded in New York City in 1997, Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization offering services designed to help our clients find jobs and remain employed. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and can return for a second suit or separates when she finds work.

DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Here's how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires you. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school. You'll get photos of your project taking place, a thank-you letter from the teacher, and a cost report showing how each dollar was spent. If you give over $100, you'll also receive hand-written thank-you letters from the students. At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.

Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, a member of the Seton Healthcare Family, is a center of excellence for Central Texas consisting of a strong alliance of expert personnel, facilities and other specialty resources dedicated to the care of children and adolescents within a forty-six county referral region. We believe no child should be refused necessary care and attention for lack of ability to pay.

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For more than a quarter century, Dell has played a critical role in transforming computing, enabling more affordable and more pervasive access to technology around the world. The company’s technology solutions improve customers’ productivity, enhances their lives and meets their distinct needs.

Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, Dell serves customers ranging from the world’s largest and most demanding businesses and public-sector organizations, to small and medium businesses, and consumers worldwide. Recognized for its ability to provide customers personalized, built-to-order technology through direct, online and retail channels, nearly 80 percent of Dell’s $53 billion in revenue last year was driven by enterprise products, services and solutions it delivers to businesses and organizations. Dell’s nearly 100,000 team members worldwide are deeply committed to corporate responsibility. The company ranks among Working Mother Magazine’s 100 Best Companies and first among Newsweek’s Greenest Companies in America.

At Dell, we promote an environment that thrives on innovation. To deliver effective solutions that meet customer challenges, Dell employs an open, standards-based approach to technology innovation. Each year, Dell honors the outstanding inventors among its employees.

Dell Powering the Possible™ is Dell’s commitment to put technology and expertise to work where it can do the most good for people and the planet. Dell acts to strengthen communities, preserve the environment, engage a diverse and inclusive workforce, and ensure supply chain responsibility. Learn more at www.dell.com/poweringthepossible.

Convio is the leading provider of donor management and fundraising solutions that enable nonprofit organziations to maximize the value of every supporter relationship. With Convio solutions, nonprofits of all sizes can more effectively raise funds, advocate for change and cultivate relationships with donors, activists, volunteers, alumni and other supporters.

Convio offers two complete solutions for nonprofits:

Convio® Luminate™ for large, enterprise nonprofits with complex multi-channel integration and analytic needs.

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Connections Individual and Family Services, Inc. (Connections), established in 1981, is a private, non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization founded by a group of community leaders to provide a safe and secure alternative from the “streets” for homeless, abused, or at-risk youth. The agency’s mission is to “Provide youth, families, and communities opportunities for a brighter future.

Computers4Kids goal is to put computers into the hands of as many Texas Public School students who wish to cross that divide by providing workshops and school assistance programs. We are on the forefront of placing technology into the hands of kids for the new millennium. On average, we provide computers to at least 50 students per month. We hope that with more donations and more in school programs we can make more computers available to those who would benefit the most, kids!

Community Action, Inc. mobilizes its resources and engages the community in order to move families out of poverty and to ensure their children's success in school. The agency provides a wide range of services in Hays County and in other counties in the rural area surrounding Travis County. The main office is located in San Marcos, with outreach centers, health clinics, child development centers, senior citizen centers and adult education classrooms located throughout the service area.

The Colorado River Foundation mobilizes financial and human resources to promote educational awareness, appreciation, and stewardship of the Colorado River in Texas as a sustainable resource for future generations. Established in 1994, the Colorado River Foundation runs natural science education programs and funds partnership science education programs primarily for at-risk youth.

Cirrus Logic, Inc. is a premier supplier of high-precision analog and digital signal processing components for audio and energy markets.

Founded in 1984, Cirrus Logic excels at developing complex chip designs where feature integration and innovation is a premium. Cirrus Logic has more than 1,000 patents that are key to our more than 700 products serving more than 2,500 end customers globally, through both direct and distributor-based channel sales.

The company’s headquarters are in Austin, Texas, with offices in Tucson, Arizona, as well as international locations in Europe, China and Japan. In June 2012 Cirrus relocated to our new headquarters building at 800 West 6th Street in downtown Austin.

Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, Inc. (CACTX) is the statewide membership association, representing all local children's advocacy centers (CACs) in the Lone Star State. Founded in 1994 with a membership of 13 local centers, today the CACTX membership roster includes 64 developing and established centers in large urban cities as well as in small rural communities. Our membership reflects the vast diversity of Texas, all with their own unique approaches to fulfilling our shared mission of protecting and providing for children. CACTX offices are located in the Beth C. Swalm Center in Austin, Texas, adjacent to the CACTX Conference Center where specialized CAC trainings are offered throughout the year.

Child Inc. is designed to be much more than even quality child care. Child Inc. is much more comprehensive than child care - it includes Health Services; Dental Services; Nutrition Services; Mental Health Services; Social Services; and Parent Training and Parent Involvement. These services either do not exist in child care programs or they are not as comprehensive. Child Inc. is required by law and regulations to achieve specific results in early education and child development and results in strengthening families.