Get to know our Community Partners.
Click on their listing to see all the ways they enrich our community and our town. If you would like to see your organization listed here, please consider applying to be a KOOP Community Partner.
Making African American health a priority for all.
to champion the dignity and human rights of immigrants through exceptional legal services.
Assisting the undeserved communities in being able to sustain themselves through workshops and resources about programs and processes.
Seeks the preservation and dissemination of scientific research into anomalous phenomena; research and analysis of accumulated collections, education of the public regarding scientific investigations into these phenomena.
Any Baby Can partners with families to build stability, develop skills, and unlock each’s full potential.
Challenges perceptions of how people contribute by creating an arts-inspired, inclusive community of individuals with diverse abilities.
To enrich Austin’s maker community by providing a top notch creative space with tools and educational opportunities in a multidisciplinary, inviting, and member-focused setting.
to develop and support atheist community; to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote atheist viewpoints, encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of separation of religion and government, to oppose discrimination against atheists.
ATX Chamber Music and Jazz aims to present the most innovative, engaging, and immersive chamber music and jazz performances available anywhere. Deriving influences from Austin’s vibrant character, the organization curates unforgettable events by combining exceptional music with social connection. Aside from crafting luxury concert experiences, the organization is committed to making music accessible to all. The artists of ATX Music regularly visit schools, youth and retirement centers.
Austin Allies’ mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve.
Our goal is to promote Amateur Radio as a worthwhile hobby, to promote advancement of technical competence and operator skills in the art of Amateur Radio, and to serve the community by providing public service and emergency communications.
Engaging people of all ages in creative, interpretive, and educational experiences related to the arts of the book.
Provides acceptance and empowerment so adults living with mental health diagnoses can pursue personal goals and play a meaningful role as coworkers, colleagues, family members, neighbors and friends.
The mission of Austin Creative Reuse is to foster conservation and reuse through creativity, education and community building.
The Austin local was founded in 1907 by local musicians who have achieved improvements to wages, working conditions and other issues relating to their employment by working together.
The Austin Friends of Traditional Music supports traditional music and dance from the many different cultures and communities found in Austin and around the world. We encourage playing, learning, dancing, and sharing our musical heritage in its many forms as they evolve with each new generation.
Choristers develop and enhance their musical skills through regular classes in music theory, ear training and sight singing and grow in self esteem while sharing the beauty of their accomplishments with appreciative audiences.
Austin Jews and Partners for Refugees are volunteers who provide direct and immediate assistance to refugee families.
to collect, preserve and exhibit Austin music related art and ephemera and use those materials to educate the public about Austin’s unique culture
Supporting the Austin Museum Visitor Community by organizing Museum Day and other Programs.
raising awareness about conditions of social and economic injustice along the Texas/Mexico border.
We are musicians representing 6,000+ Central Texas musicians on city, state and federal policy while also providing educational resources, income opportunities and preservation efforts to enhance our quality of life.
Dedicated to the performance and preservation of Traditional Jazz in Austin and Central Texas.
Austin Unconducted builds community by creating inclusive, immersive, and relevant concert experiences that engage diverse audiences. As a cooperative orchestra, we re-examine the long arc of musical tradition through a contemporary lens with performances that promote equity and generate new excitement for art music in our ever changing city.
The mission for the Men’s Clinic is to improve the health status of men and boys where they live, work and pray by providing holistic wrap around services. We will also provide awareness and disease prevention messages and tools, screening programs, educational materials, advocacy and patient navigation.
BookSpring is the leading Central Texas organization focusing on building literacy skills and the motivation to read through increasing home libraries and reading aloud activities for children.
We cultivate BRAVE spaces for people of diverse backgrounds to come together and Build Relationships Awareness Voices and Engagement so we can co-create more just and equitable communities.
Breakthrough is the leading college access and success nonprofit in Central Texas. For more than 20 years, we have partnered with thousands of middle and high school students who aspire to be the first in their family to graduate with a degree or certificate. We make a radical, long-term commitment to students, to and through college. We support the whole student with personalized services, work closely with community partners and advocate for our students with lawmakers.
Brush Square Museums Foundation is the primary citizen group advocating for the restoration and preservation of the O. Henry Museum and Susanna Dickinson Museum. We host the annual O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships in the 2nd weekend of May.
Capital City Village (CCV) builds a community of members, volunteers, and service professionals to provide older adults with the support and information they need to successfully age in their own homes. Since 2011, Capital City Village members and volunteers alike have benefitted from the improbable friendships they cultivate through three primary actions: ENGAGE-EXPLORE-ENRICH. CCV supports older adults in Austin choosing to age at home by connecting neighbors who face similar life transitions.
Our mission is to reduce the trauma for children during the investigation and prosecution of crimes against children.
The Central Texas Cherokee township is a group of at large citizens of the Cherokee Nation and their families who are committed to fostering and promoting Cherokee culture, language, and fellowship. We are supported by the Cherokee Nation Community and Cultural Outreach.
Co-Lab Projects is an artist-run nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources, education, and exhibition space to artists that produce contemporary works of art, installation, and performance.
We focus on governmental advocacy, public awareness activities, and professional disability consulting to make Texas a leader in disability-related public policy and culture.
Community Coalition for Neighborhood Stability
The CCNS advocates for systemic changes through policy and the adoption of community ideas that will improve quality of life. We seek to develop and stabilize communities that face socioeconomic and life imbalance through advocating for:
Safe, reliable shelter/housing and healthy living conditions; healthy and culturally relevant food; human rights, social justice, self determination, and freedom of expression; increased language support and access; promoting education and social engagement.
The Creative Arts Society is an Austin based, non-profit 501(c)(3) thriving arts organization actively promoting the development of the “Artist in Everyone” for the expanding growth and diversity of our community. We are a vital presence inspiring cultural enrichment, community participation, respect for diversity, seeking to increase awareness and appreciation for and through the Arts.
Creative social engagement through the arts. We sponsor events, workshops, and gatherings to help bring people of all backgrounds together. Some of our projects include music jam sessions, songwriting and creative writing workshops, and interactive concerts.
The mission of Dance Waterloo is to cultivate, create, and perform interdisciplinary methods of dance for the community through education, collaboration, and the use of public space.
Design Austin illuminates the impact of design for all. We explore, imagine, and shape the future.
Sharing the unconditional love of dogs with people in special needs facilities in Central Texas.
Early Era Collective is a nonprofit dance company based in Austin, Texas that creates multiform, multi-perspective art. Through live performance, film, and multimedia productions, we aim to bring Austinites together to experience high quality, accessible, inclusive art.
The Engage and Heal Foundation aims to break the stigma of mental health through advocacy and literacy programming, while providing access to mental health resources to students and educators. We believe that by normalizing mental health challenges we can break down walls, start conversations and encourage healing at the individual and community level.
Environment Texas is an Austin-based non-profit that advocates for clean air, clean water, and open spaces. Our mission is to protect the natural world by representing the public interest.
We provide services that promote dignity and stability for older adults and people with disabilities.
Our mission is to grow a healthy, just and equitable local food system by increasing community food access and cultivating new farmers
Growing edible forest gardens on public land that nourish, educate and inspire.
Foundation Communities is a homegrown central Texas nonprofit. Organization providing affordable, housing and community financial stability programs, including no-cost tax help, health coverage navigation, financial coaching, education counseling, and career guidance for all.
Eeyore’s Birthday Party is a fund-raiser operated by the Friends of the Forest Foundation to benefit local 501c3 nonprofit groups in Austin, Texas.
We support neighborhood leaders and organizations to grow food, strengthen communities, and foster stewardship of the natural commons.
Alongside our members, collaborators and partners, we nurture creativity, community-building and professional resilience in Texas. We cultivate spaces where women and queer creatives, founders and leaders can grow together. Currently, we produce an annual festival and market, a year-round learning club and conference, as well as multiple community-care initiatives.
Generation Serve sparks a love for volunteering that inspires youth to grow into community-minded leaders.
Our mission is to enable historically underserved populations to access their interests by bicycle with education, skills training, deployment of bicycles, solutions to transportation barriers and advocate for connected transportation methods.
GirlForward is a community of support dedicated to creating and enhancing opportunities for girls who have been displaced globally by conflict and persecution. GirlForward supports girls in grades 9-12 who are refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers through three core programs: Mentoring, Tutoring, and Safe Spaces.
We know girls are powerful. It’s our mission to help them know it too. Help girls become unstoppable.
Our Mission: We ignite the power in girls by teaching them the skills to thrive and believe in their ability to be unstoppable. This mission comes to life in our programs through a curriculum designed to increase each girl’s self-efficacy (her belief in her ability to succeed.)
Girls Rock Austin is dedicated to empowering girls trans and gender non-conforming youth through music, mentorship and self-care.
GAVA organizes and mobilizes to break down barriers to healthy living in Austin’s Eastern Crescent. We envision a future in which a person’s health is no longer determined by their ZIP code, race, gender, language access, or immigration status.
Good Work Austin fosters healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
To preserve the traditions, heritage and culture of American Indians, and to support the health and education needs of their youth and families to honor the past and to ensure the future.
Home Street Music is a nonprofit that empowers people who have experienced homelessness by hosting music circles that build community, restore confidence, and reclaim dignity through the healing power of song, as well as providing job opportunities to working musicians.
We provide financial housing assistance for Austin area musicians 55+.
Hyperreal Film Club is Cinema For The People. Since 2016, we’ve popped up in dozens of Austin’s most iconic locations to bring you our favorite entries in the world of cult, genre, arthouse, and independent cinema — always paired with one or more short films showcasing the thriving local scene here in ATX.
The ratchet strap that binds it all together is community. Collaborating with local organizations, amplifying local artists, and providing affordable events is what we are all about.
In the Dew of Little Things is a 501(c)(3) designed to provide, promote or enhance services for the underserved through art and stewardship for the purpose of friendship and solidarity. Many of our services involve creative problem solving for practical needs like creating the mobile Dew Shit tool library and workshop that is underway, now. In the past, we’ve built fire pits and sourced sanitation services for folks on the street.
IBP is an Austin-based community service volunteer organization that sends free reading materials to people incarcerated in Texas, and also publishes resource guides and short-form instructional pamphlets. IBP is the only books-to-prisoners program in Texas and works to promote reading, literacy, and education among incarcerated individuals and to educate the general public on issues of incarceration.
seeks to bridge the cultures of Japan and Central Texas; strengthen cooperation and understanding between U.S. and Japan by providing programs and events that aim to expand knowledge, increase personal interaction, and facilitate discussion of important issues.
JoyRx draws on the universal power of music to energize and lift spirits. Our trained musicians help children find Joy during the stressful and painful experiences related to extended hospitalizations and treatments for injured and life-threatening illness. Our Joy-based programs reduce loneliness, stress, and perception of pain for children — transforming their pediatric healthcare experience — and are offered at no cost to families and hospital partners.
Keep Austin Beautiful inspires and educates all Austinites to volunteer together, beautify green spaces, clean waterways, and reduce waste every day.
The mission of Keep Austin Neighborly is to empower and amplify the efforts of local individuals and small organizations that actively contribute to Austin’s vibrant community. We achieve this by enhancing visibility, attracting volunteers, and securing resources for these groups through storytelling and modern marketing strategies. Our goal is to foster sustainable and powerful community-driven projects, making Austin a more connected, supportive, and neighborly place for all.
Knowbility’s mission is digital equity – to create an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities.
Ladies Let’s Talk helps refugee and immigrant women achieve belonging in their new community.
The LBJ Foundation supports the LBJ Presidential Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and maintains the archive of President Johnson’s administration and political career and promotes his legacy while providing, in his words, “a springboard for the future” through public programming aimed at addressing the issues of our times.
For over 100 years, we have been a nonpartisan, activist, grassroots organization that believes voters should play a critical role in democracy.
Supporting youth in foster care and homeless youth with free tutoring from community volunteers.
The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic and reproductive justice.
Increase opportunities to learn math in public spaces, make and distribute math models.
Provides laundry services to the unhoused while connecting those experiencing homelessness with the resources to live a more prosperous, independent, stable, and healthy lifestyle.
We’re an all-volunteer bookstore and social space animated by the proposition that a better world is possible (and the quickest route there is the best).
Restoring dignity, rebuilding opportunity, and reshaping systems—OPRC empowers justice-impacted individuals through trauma-informed workforce development, peer-led support, and strategic partnerships that transform reentry into a pathway of healing, equity, and lasting change.
Out Youth promotes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well being of sexual and gender minority youth so that they can openly and safely explore and affirm their identities.
PEAS cultivates joyful connections with the natural world through outdoor learning and edible education programs for participating school campuses, operates and maintains a community farm, runs camps, and offers consultation services along with professional development to help teachers bridge key academic concepts and social emotional learning from the garden to the classroom.
Pease Park Conservancy celebrates the diverse ecology and history that make Austin’s first public park valuable and unique. The Conservancy works to restore, enhance and maintain this 84-acre public green space for the sustainable use and enjoyment of all.
Preservation Austin exists to empower Austinites to shape a more inclusive, resilient, and meaningful community culture through preservation. With unique programming, powerful advocacy initiatives, and helpful community preservation resources, we promote our mission citywide.
Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power, and fight to ensure that government works for the people-not big government.
QWELL Community Foundation cultivates a queer culture of health and self-actualization for the nation’s third largest openly LGBTQIA+ population here in Greater Austin, Texas.
Real Queens Fix Each Other’s Crowns is changing the way the world thinks about mental health for women and girls. By creating spaces for connection and healing, we provide judgment-free support, education, and empowerment. We work to break racial disparities in mental health care and equip women with the tools to challenge gender inequality and drive meaningful change.
Provides lodging and support services for families with children in Central Texas hospitals.
SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement working to close the SOA / WHINSEC and similar centers that train state actors such as military, law enforcement and border patrol. We strive to expose, denounce, and end US militarization, oppressive US policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas. We act in solidarity with organizations and movements working for justice and peace throughout the Americas.
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources;
To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Simple Promise Farms is a mission-based non-profit organization with a powerful vision that is located in Elgin. Simple Promise Farms partners with Ranch House Recovery to empower individuals recovering from addiction. By engaging in farming and cultivating fresh produce, they assist people in recovery with building life skills, finding purpose, and fostering healthy relationships. Our mission is to cultivate hope, community, and meaningful work to transform lives, offering a path to long-term
The SIMS Foundation provides mental health and substance use recovery services and supports for musicians, music industry professionals, and their dependent family members. Through education, community partnerships, and accessible managed care, SIMS seeks to destigmatize and reduce mental health and substance use issues, while supporting and enhancing the well-being of the music community at large.
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy in Central Texas and expand access to the benefits of solar to everyone to mitigate climate change while creating a healthy community and support for a strong local economy.
Works for clean air and clean energy, supporting affordable energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions to meet our energy needs.
TALA services include lawyer and accountant pro bono assistance for artists, patent pro bono assistance for inventors, dispute resolution services, and educational programs for the artistic and business communities. Programs are designed to help participants apply sound business practices to protect intellectual property, advance careers, and develop income. TALA believes that individuals, regardless of income, should have access to business knowledge and advice to further a career.
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy
Supporting local farmers and producers by connecting them with the community and helping to create a sustainable food system in the Austin area.
Our mission is to develop, support, and promote policies, practices, and programs that create positive change and reduce the harmful consequences of substance use and misuse in Texas.
Texas Legal was created 50 years ago by the State Bar of Texas and the Texas State Legislature to provide access to affordable legal help for everyday Texans.
TexPop ATX or the Texas Museum of Popular Culture is a non-profit community center that seeks to elevate local creatives here in Austin. Our motto is “preserving the past while inspiring the future” and we host regular events to encourage community building while giving creatives a platform to express themselves. Our location also pays homage to Texan creatives of the past by featuring their work on display as well as honoring those who have passed on our Memorial Wall.
The Texas Music Museum collects and preserves artifacts, documents and reference material surrounding the diverse traditions of Texas music, and utilizes these collections in the presentation of exhibits, educational programs, and performances.
The Texas Observer is a progressive nonprofit news outlet and print magazine covering the Lone Star State. The Observer strives to make Texas a more equitable place through investigative reporting, narrative storytelling, and political and cultural coverage and commentary. We dig beyond the headlines and contextualize news events. Our essays, reviews, and criticism seek to create a new cultural canon and challenge existing mythologies.
Founded and operated by seasoned female musicians who selflessly give their time and resources as a labor of love for music and their community. We are advocates for women in music, sponsoring songwriting festival stages at music conferences, community non-profit events, grants and educational opportunities.
The Arc is committed to empowering Central Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Providing transformative healing experiences and support services for families who have lost loved ones at the hands of another while delivering programs to youth and adults to eliminate the root causes of violence and trauma in their communities.
First incorporated in 1969, the foundation provides support for the educational and historical work of the LBJ Presidential Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) is a community-driven space grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists. MoHA’s vision is for an empowered, resilient creative community where each member has the resources to foster well being, prosperity, and a self-determined future.
The Other Ones Foundation transitions Austin’s unhoused neighbors into engaged community through shelter, opportunity, and support.
Engaging Austin parents and families in doable, meaningful action on climate change.
To provide educational support related to addiction, health and social theory to students, journalists and the general public through our online library / archival systems and provide continuing education, seminars and public policy internships that identify and reduce human generated misery.
The Refugee Collective is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization employing refugees, immigrants, and asylees in fair-wage, dignified work through two social enterprises: a textile manufacturing studio and an organic farm.
Our enterprises are built at the intersection of the traditional, respected skills of sewing and farming that refugees bring and a growing market for local textile & food production.
Our mission is to promote healing and growth in children, young adults and families by providing a continuum of care, support and resources. We serve individuals who have experienced severe emotional trauma, abuse and neglect.
The Sobering Center is a safe place for publicly intoxicated people to sober up outside of jails and hospitals and where appropriate provide a bridge to recovery.
To promote the work of Black women by publishing contemporary creative writing by emerging and experienced writers alike, to archive contributors’ literary work for posterity and educational purposes, and to provide resources and opportunities for the advancement of Black women through literary arts.
Educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war and working to end all wars.
Waterloo Greenway is working towards the design and construction of 35 acres of park space in Downtown Austin, serving the entire community with free year-round community programming. Waterloo Park is our first phase that opened in August 2021, we are now breaking ground on our second park phase this spring.
We Are Blood is the nonprofit blood center serving Central Texas since 1951. We are the sole provider of blood and platelets to over 40 hospitals and clinics across 10 counties.
We Luv Video is dedicated to the maintenance and preservation of physical media, and providing access and education related to film and physical media at an accessible, low cost to the Austin community.
Volunteer neighborhood association making Windsor Park a better place to live
Empowering students from under-resourced and underserved communities to pursue research and leadership pathways in neuroscience fields, ultimately contributing to advancing scientific innovation and improved health outcomes.
Yellow Bike Project (YBP) is a non-profit organization that has been working since 1997 to reuse bicycles and to provide tools, workspace, and guidance for all. It is a bicycle recycling facility that provides free bikes to those who would not otherwise have access.
