This community foundation supports a range of local causes to meet community needs in Austin. WoodNext supported the foundation’s disaster relief efforts following Winter Storm Uri in February 2021.
This community foundation supports a range of local causes to meet community needs in Austin. WoodNext supported the foundation’s disaster relief efforts following Winter Storm Uri in February 2021.
This coalition coordinates organizations that address homelessness in the community. WoodNext supports a homelessness diversion program in Austin that targets people who need minimal support to access stable housing.
The locally-owned Austin branch of Public Broadcasting Service provides curated content for the community. WoodNext supports the show Austin City Limits, a concert series showcasing artists across musical genres.
Austin Together is a nonprofit that enables sustained collaborations among funders to create better outcomes in Central Texas. Austin Together hosts the Central Texas Funder Network, which aims to foster peer relationships, collaboration, and learning among donors, foundations, and corporations in the region. WoodNext is a member of this network.
Austin Wildlife Rescue rehabilitates and releases orphaned, injured, and sick wild animals and educates the public on coexisting with wildlife.
This nonprofit provides high-quality, accessible mental health services to children and their families across Central Texas, including clinical services, professional development and training of mental health professionals, and community education.
Part of the Association of Waldorf Schools, it provides a developmentally appropriate, experiential, and academically rigorous education, integrating arts and creative thinking into academic disciplines. WoodNext funds scholarships, financial aid, and tuition assistance.
Provides after-school and summer programs for high school students that teach them about the environment and engage them in activities such as river cleanups and green infrastructure projects.
This nonprofit provides assistance to Asian families dealing with domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. Based in Austin, its bilingual staff provides services to survivors in 10 Texas counties, as well as support and referrals to families across the state who do not have local services.
This nonprofit provides access to affordable healthcare for greater Austin’s low-income, working musicians, with a focus on prevention and wellness. The organization has helped musicians, DJs, and music teachers access services such as dental and eye exams, psychiatric counseling, and basic needs assistance.
This organization inspires and educates all Austinites to volunteer together, beautify green spaces, clean waterways, and reduce waste.
LifeWorks Austin addresses youth homelessness via housing, counseling, and education/workforce programs. In addition to general support for the organization, WoodNext supported a workforce program to help homeless youth in Austin achieve educational goals, increase employability, gain independent living and parenting skills, and set themselves on a path to self-sufficiency.
As the largest nonprofit provider of family emergency shelter in Central Texas, Salvation Army serves people with shelter, addiction rehabilitation, clothing, meals, holiday support, and direct assistance. WoodNext supported the Salvation Army’s Rathgeber Center for Families and the Austin Shelter for Women and Children.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. WoodNext is supporting the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences’ Amplify Center, which provides mental health services for young adults aged 18-29.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. WoodNext is funding a project on the recovery of nutrients from wastewater called Electrified Bioinspired Membranes for Nutrient Recycling.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. WoodNext supported the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute, which aims to strengthen the next generation of creative female leaders in business and beyond.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. The University’s McDonald Observatory is home to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), one of the world’s largest optical telescopes. WoodNext is funding a project on dark energy in the universe called Extracting the History of the Cosmos from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. WoodNext is funding the launch of a two-year, post-graduate scholarship program that provides logistical and financial support to help licensed masters of social work (LMSWs) become licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs). Texas’s mental and behavioral health workforce has critical unmet needs, including a workforce shortage. While both certifications enable holders to provide social services, LCSWs are specifically trained to provide mental health services, including psychotherapy. The program expands the mental health workforce and increases employment opportunities for LMSWs.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. WoodNext is supporting research at the university’s Dell Medical School on dopamine pathways in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapy with psychedelics. This research seeks to pinpoint the mechanisms behind fear extinction to create more effective interventions for PTSD.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s top universities and a leading research university. The University’s McDonald Observatory is home to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), one of the world’s largest optical telescopes. The team is developing a system to enhance the operation of the HET and set a paradigm for aligning multi-mirror telescopes. This system will contribute to the design of next-generation telescopes, essential for astronomical advancements.
This program empowers economically disadvantaged youth to reach their full potential through mentoring, leadership, and outdoor adventure. It provides a leadership-based outdoor adventure curriculum coupled with social-emotional learning and mentoring.
This nonprofit aims to nurture the next generation via scholarships, agricultural education, and other opportunities that help youth to succeed.
Friends of the Children is a model that identifies children as young as 4 who are facing challenges and invites them to be paired with a professional mentor called a “Friend.” These mentors empower youth to set and achieve goals and support them in a variety of ways. WoodNext is supporting the Austin, Boston, Central Oregon, Colorado Springs, Houston, and Texas chapters.
This tuition-free adult charter high school awards industry recognized and high school diplomas to adult learners in Austin, TX.
This nonprofit’s mission is to provide housing for aging Austin-area musicians. HOME was formed by a group of concerned women who recognized that many of the performers who put Austin on the musical map spent their careers without building long-term financial security. The organization provides grants, referrals, and other assistance to musicians in need.
Band Together Texas was a benefit concert held in August 2025 to support urgent relief and long-term rebuilding in Central Texas after the July 2025 floods. The concert was held in Austin, TX and featured over a dozen musicians and actors. WoodNext contributed to the fundraiser.
This nonprofit works to stop abuse for everyone by serving survivors of child abuse, sexual assault and exploitation, and domestic violence in Austin, Texas. WoodNext supported SAFE Alliance’s Kelly White Family Shelter and the Community Shelter Program.
St. Edwards is a private university in Austin, TX that aims to provide rigorous academics and experiential learning opportunities. WoodNext is supporting its Wild Basin Creative Research Center, a field research station within a nearby wilderness preserve that sustains research, trail maintenance, and education programs.
This Austin-based nonprofit fulfills musical “last wishes” for individuals with a terminal illness or nearing the end of life. It creates a sense of connection for individuals by gifting them private concerts in the musical genre of their choice in healthcare facilities or private homes. It also compensates the musicians, thereby supporting live music in the community.
The Texas A&M Foundation ensures gifts are used to further research and other charitable opportunities at the university in alignment with donors’ passions. WoodNext is supporting the Capital City A&M Scholarship program, which supports Austin-area high school seniors planning to attend Texas A&M University in College Station in the fall.
This nonprofit transitions Austin’s homeless neighbors into an engaged community through shelter, opportunity, and support. WoodNext is supporting its Magnolia Services, which employs individuals currently and formerly experiencing homelessness to provide junk removal and demolition services to the greater Austin area. Programming we supported includes moving individuals experiencing homelessness into stable living situations and cleaning creeks in Austin.
Urban Roots works with youth leaders in Austin to grow fresh food.
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