We recently announced our end-of-year matching campaign to raise $40,000. Now is a particularly great time to donate because your gift will go twice as far!
A 5-year, $50,000 grant that has been generously offered by The Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation, Tobin Janel Levy & Michael R. Levy in support of our Educational Outreach Program. Through this grant, the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation will match up to $10,000 in donations from our community that arrive by this December 31st!
Austin Pictures, with over 1,500 in the audience, more than 100 participants from over 1,000 miles away, and many, many smiles from the pros, the students, the artists and our patrons, was a crowning achievement for ACGS in 2011. We are most thankful and proud, however, of our new education programs – especially those at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and our new Program at the Gardner Betts facility of the Travis County Juvenile Justice System.
Just two weeks ago our Director of Education gave an address at a UT conference on arts and juvenile justice about our work at Gardner Betts (read the article here), and just a few days ago we received a request for support from Canada to help build a guitar program in one of the largest schools for the blind in North America.
In these, and many other ways, the groundbreaking work we do here, with your support, is radiating outward to positively impact the lives of thousands and thousands of young people.
