Photo: Community Grants Celebrated on Welcome Home Sunday, August 2024
2025 Community GrantS Awarded
The St. David’s Grants Committee for Community Outreach is happy to announce our 2025 grant recipients!
St. David’s has a long history of – and deep commitment to – helping people in need in the Austin community. As part of these ongoing efforts, St. David’s distributes annual grants of $10,000 to support non-profit organizations that serve those in need and disadvantaged populations in Austin and Travis County.
The Grants Committee for Community Outreach (GCCO) is a subcommittee of the vestry of St. David’s Episcopal Church. The GCCO administers the church grant proposal process and makes funding recommendations to the vestry, which then approves the grant recipients.
St. David’s Community Grants are funded by revenue generated by Next-to-New, St. David’s consignment and resale shop. Since 1959, St. David’s has distributed nearly $3 million in community grant funding. To support future community grants, please visit our shop.
Next-to-New
5435 Burnet Dr. Austin, TX 78756
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
2025 Community Grant Recipients
On Welcome Home Sunday, Aug. 17, we will celebrate the work of these non-profits and meet representatives who will be attending our 10:30 a.m. all-parish worship, where we will give thanks for our grants committee, volunteers, and the staff at Next-to-New.
Art From the Streets
Art From the Streets creates a safe space for Austin’s unhoused community to create art, build healthy relationships, and feel validation through the sale of their work. Funds from the St. David’s grant program will help them to hire a program manager with lived experience to assist with studio classes and the annual art show.
Building Promise
Dismantling the cycle of incarceration, unemployment, and homelessness one person at a time, Building Promise is a peer-led, peer-driven nonprofit that provides re-entry services for central Texans impacted by mass incarceration.
The Charlie Center
The Charlie Center, located in southwest Austin, is a navigation center whose goal is to move people from homelessness into housing. Their continuous work is “loving people between the two.” Money from the St. David’s grant will help to fund their ID Project.
The Neighbors Program at Central Presbyterian Church
The Neighbors Program at Central Presbyterian Church supports homeless advocacy and provides hot meals for our unhoused neighbors on Thursday mornings, as well as coordinating with Trinity Center and other providers to share resources and advocate for the needs of the unhoused in downtown Austin.
Farmshare Austin
Located on a 13-acre farm in Eastern Travis County, Farmshare Austin’s mission is to grow a healthy, just, and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers. St. David’s funding will help Farmshare provide residents of Rainbow Housing communities with monthly Fresh Food Bundles.
Global Impact Initiative
The mission of Global Impact Initiative is to empower at-risk communities globally through education, mentoring, and job skills training that build intergenerational stability and wellness. Funds from St. Davids will support the Refugee Sewing Collective, which works to develop skills already possessed by many refugee women and create avenues for them to sell their creations at Refugee Bazaars and craft markets, as well as help create connections for contract work and full-time employment.
Literacy Coalition
Funding will be used for Literacy Coalition’s Family Education program, a free two-generation program for parents and children ages 18 months to 5 years with a focus on ending intergenerational poverty. Adults learn the English language and strategies to support their children’s language, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Children gain early literacy and kindergarten-readiness skills.
Street Youth Ministry
Street Youth Ministry is a community-based organization guiding unhoused young adults (under 28 years of age) with practical, effective, and common-sense support. Funds from St. David’s will help them improve their Sunshine Store, which provides clothing, toiletries, and other necessities to unhoused Austin youth.
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