AUSTIN
Group tops $1 million in donations
The Downtown Austin Alliance introduced that its contributions to Group First Village have reached $1 million.
In 2017, the Downtown Alliance board accredited a pledge to donate $2 million over 10 years to help the capital marketing campaign to develop Phases 2, 3 and 4 of Group First Village, the distinctive tiny house neighborhood developed by Cellular Loaves & Fishes designed particularly for women and men who’re transitioning out of continual homelessness. The grant was not solely the most important within the historical past of the Downtown Austin Alliance, however on the time was additionally the most important ever for Cellular Loaves & Fishes.
Now, midway to fulfilling its $2 million pledge, the Downtown Austin Alliance counseled the influence Group First Village is having on folks’s lives and on addressing homelessness in downtown Austin.
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Courtesy of Downtown Austin Alliance
AUSTIN
Catholic Charities receives $20K grant
Catholic Charities of Central Texas has acquired a $20,000 grant from the Texas Bar Basis to supply extra reasonably priced authorized illustration for immigrant households.
This grant shall be used so as to add a full-time immigration lawyer to the Austin-based Immigration Authorized Service workforce, who will assist at the very least 125 immigrants with reasonably priced immigration authorized help.
The Immigration Authorized Service program invested in particular know-how over the previous a number of years to satisfy the elevated demand for reasonably priced immigration authorized help. With these newfound efficiencies from know-how and an inflow in service requests, this extra immigration lawyer will present aid for Central Texas immigrant households in search of safe immigration standing for themselves or their household. Catholic Charities at present has a particular initiative to supply free authorized providers to Afghan refugees because of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan.
Since 2001, Immigration Authorized Service has supplied reasonably priced authorized help to Central Texas immigrants. The households it serves are low-income immigrants or members of the family of immigrants who qualify for immigration advantages, authorized standing or protections. Immigration Authorized Service assists immigrants by stabilizing their immigration standing, reuniting them with members of the family, offering them with work authorization, and offering illustration for immigrants going through deportation.
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Courtesy of Catholic Charities of Central Texas