Thank you for your donations and supporting the work of The Salvation Army in Travis and Williamson counties during the 2021 Amplify Austin annual community wide 24-hour Day of Giving. This year we raised $71,891 through the generosity of 247 donors.
Thank you to the Carl C. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation and the Shield-Ayres Foundation for their matching campaign of $30,000. Your support during Amplify Austin makes a major impact on the lives of people who need it the most in our community. These dollars will be put to work to provide shelter, meals and support services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness.
Amplify Austin is our city’s annual community-wide day of online giving, with our community donating $12.3 million in 2020 for hundreds of nonprofits. This 24 hours period of online giving provides an easy and fun way for our entire community to give together while helping nonprofits.
Thank you for your donation and supporting the work of the Salvation Army through the 2020 Amplify Austin. Last year we raised $31,335 through the generosity of 157 donors, allowing us to receive the entire matching grant from Carl C. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation of $30,000. Your support during Amplify Austin makes a major impact on the lives of people who need it the most in our community.
We Shelter
Your donation will help support individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness in our community. The Salvation Army is the largest provided of shelter in Austin. We operate three shelters in Austin: the Downtown Shelter and Social Services Center (242-beds), the Austin Shelter for Women and Children (91-beds), and The Rathgeber Center for Families (212-beds).
We work with clients to link them to long-term housing opportunities. Clients, while they are working on their self-sufficiency goals with their assigned case manager, have the option of staying in residence between thirty to ninety days. We are here to help meet their needs so they can learn to meet their own. The services we provide are comprehensive and we work with every member of the family. We provide individual and family therapy as well as groups. We have outings and activities in the evening, and an onsite licensed teacher for tutoring and enrichment activities.
Because of your donation, you are a part of major impact on the lives of people in need in our community. There are so many stories of families (with children) and individuals who need help and turn to The Salvation Army of Austin for shelter. meals and other services.
We are all one crisis away from needing a helping hand. The people we serve are daughters, sons, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, neighbors, teachers, business owners and friends that have experienced that crisis, and now they need the HAND UP that we can provide.
Inspired by our Christian mission, we offer the resources and support to lift up our neighbors in crisis. As the largest provider of emergency shelter in Central Texas, annually we serve more than 100,000 men, women, and children with shelter, addiction rehabilitation, clothing, meals, holiday support, and direct client assistance. We case manage hundreds from crisis to stability and self-sufficiency.