The Young Performing Artist Program (YPAP) assists pre-college guitarists in their education and development. It is a special project of Austin Creative Alliance, which works to advance, connect and advocate for Austin’s arts, cultural, and creative communities in order to strengthen and protect the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.

The YPAP is funded entirely by voluntary donations.

Showcasing two renowned and architecturally unique locations, The Contemporary Austin reflects the spectrum of contemporary art through multidisciplinary exhibitions, commissions, education, and the collection. Launched in 2013 as the new brand of the Austin Museum of Art–which changed its name from the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in 1996–the Contemporary brings engaging programs and enticing special events to the city’s visual arts landscape.

The museum aspires to be the contemporary art museum for Austin and an essential part of city life. Through its unique combination of urban and outdoor sites, The Contemporary will embody an eclectic and collaborative spirit.

Established in 1958, KUT 90.5 FM is committed to supporting civic and cultural life in Central Texas through daily news coverage, high-quality documentary production, and exceptional music programming that reflects the Austin experience. It broadcasts from The University of Texas at Austin.

KUT launched Central Texas’ first full-time public radio news operation in 2002; since then, it has become one of the best performing public radio stations in the country, with more than 250,000 Central Texas listeners each week. The station has received more than 100 state, national, and international awards since its inception, including two national Edward R. Murrow awards, seven National Headliners awards, and 11 New York Festival awards.

The Autism Hope Alliance embodies hope for families facing an autism diagnosis. The first autism-related non-profit to emerge from the natural foods industry, AHA provides education, support and financial assistance to families facing autism. To date, the Autism Hope Alliance has helped more than 55,000 families and provided more than $2 million in assistance. The organization has recently launched Support Autism Hope in collaboration with Tony Robbins. He will match every dollar donated to the AHA to ensure families around the country can get the support they need while living with autism. Learn more and donate today!

For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs of America have helped put young people on the path to great futures. Founded in 1860, the organization works to enable all young people, especially those most vulnerable, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Leaders strive to ensure all club members stay on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrate good character and citizenship, and live a healthy lifestyle. 

The Standish Foundation for Child and Family Centered Healthcare was founded in 2010 to ensure that children and their families experience healthcare in a way that promotes hope, healing and happiness.  With global health volunteers in more than 20 countries, they work with healthcare providers to create customized child and family centered programs; provide funding and material resources to healthcare providers and institutions; and collaborate with partners to support networking and education exchanges. The foundation is focused on supporting and sharing tools and strategies that enable child and family-friendly healthcare techniques, which can have a monumental impact on the lives pediatric medical staff, child patients and their families.

Wonders & Worries was launched in 2001 to provide individual and group support services for children who have a parent battling a chronic or life-threatening illness. The organization also provides parenting support for parents and caregivers. The organization’s comprehensive model of using child life specialists to help children cope with a family member’s illness is unduplicated in North America.

The child life staff has worked with more than 1,250 families and 5,000 individuals affected by illnesses like cancer, ALS, MS, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and more. The illnesses may be different, but the challenges families face are the same. They fight to keep their families intact and maintain a sense of normalcy and stability for their children.

The Anthony Robbins Foundation is a non-profit organization created to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of people often forgotten – youth, homeless and hungry, prisoners, elderly and disabled. Created in 1991, the Foundation was built upon the belief system that, regardless of stature, only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy; true fulfillment. It has products and programs estimated to be in more than 2,000 schools, more than 800 prisons, and countless health and human service organizations.

CROP Hunger Walks help support the overall ministry of Church World Service (CWS), which was formed in the aftermath of World War II when 17 denominations came together to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, comfort the aged, and shelter the homeless. Soon after its founding, CWS created CROP, the Christian Rural Overseas Program, in 1947, to help Midwest farm families to share their grain with hungry neighbors in post-World War II Europe and Asia.

The first CROP Walk was held in 1969 in order to raise money for, and raise awareness of, worldwide hunger. Currently, well over 2,000 communities across the United States join in more than 1,300 CROP Hunger Walks each year.

Founded in 2013, NuDay Syria provides desperately needed humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians inside the country and living along its borders. They are especially concerned with the plight and vulnerability of displaced women and girls, whose needs are often overlooked and voices not heard. NuDay Syria advocates for girls and women who now find themselves with no male breadwinners and lacking the necessary skills or experience to earn a living and provide for their families.

Founded by Nadia Alawa, a mother of eight who could no longer sit idle as the Syrian humanitarian crisis unfolded, NuDay Syria is a purposeful extension of relief efforts in and around the New England area. The charity is unique in that it depends on dedicated volunteers and activists on the ground to provide direct support and create tangible change in various ways. Among other things, the 501c(3) non-profit provides milk and diapers for babies; organizes K-12 schooling and sponsors orphans in Syria and neighboring Turkey; delivers care packages (in 40-foot tractor trailers) containing food, clothing, personal hygiene and bedding supplies, medical supplies and hospital equipment; establishes soup kitchens; provides social support and skills training; coordinates specialized medical relief; and helps restore wells to provide clean, safe drinking water.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church prides itself on being a part of the Progressive Christianity community of believers. Its mission is to learn and teach the radical and universal love of Jesus Christ by nurturing individual spirituality and growth, fostering community, sharing and celebrating the circle of life, providing space and time for personal and communal reverence, and championing universal human rights and courageously acting to overcome injustice. Congregants are engaged in a number of ministries and programs, including a food pantry and on-site garden, social justice efforts, community partnership and conservation efforts, and the Shawl Ministry, which provides gifts of support to ailing members and those in crisis.

The West Austin Lions Club has served the Austin-area community for more than 50 years; as a local affiliate of Lions Club International, the club  50 years works to the global mission of empowering volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding. West Austin Lions Club is focused on addressing several issues throughout the Austin area, including sight, health, youth, elderly, the environment and disaster relief.

Lions Club International was founded in 1917 on the basis of one question: “What if people put their talents to work improving their communities?” A century later, the Lions Club has become the world’s largest service club organization, with 1.35 million members in more than 45,000 clubs in more than 206 countries and geographies around the world.