12 families featured in the 25th Season for Caring program. Here's how you can help.
For years, the Season for Caring families have been at the bedsides of family members they loved. They've picked up the pieces and moved to a new place. They opened up their homes to care for others. They have weathered the tide of economic downturns and personal struggles.
Now they need your help.
The American-Statesman invites you to read the stories of the 12 featured families in the 25th Season for Caring program. Hear their words in the videos with their stories at statesman.com/seasonforcaring. See the joy and sorrow in their faces in the photos.
Then reach out. Each day through Jan. 1, the Statesman will run a new story and an ad with an in-print coupon to mail in your donation or use the link with each story online to the donation form. All your monetary donations will be matched by the Sheth family through Christmas.
Read the families' wish lists and give an item or a service such as home repairs or house cleaning. Click on their Amazon, Target or Walmart gift registry and send an item.
You will be helping not just the 12 featured families but also hundreds like them through the Statesman's trusted nonprofit partner organizations.
Together, we lift up our community. Together, we make this a Season for Caring.
Meet our Season for Caring families
Campos family A smile is worth a thousand hardships for Austin mother of twins
Gaulmon family: Dedicated mom wants best for daughter after experiencing homelessness
Hernandez family: Austin widow watches home husband provided fall into disrepair
Jerome family: Ashley Joiner and Georges Jerome rebuild life after death of 3-year-old
Mukire family: Aimable Mukire: Refugee family in Austin perseveres through war, injury
Piper family: Tracey Piper of Bastrop puts needs of others before herself
Ramirez family: Kristin Ramirez, single Austin mom of six, faces stage 3 breast cancer
Richard family: Austin husband with stage IV lung cancer goes through savings
Smith family: Sue Smith navigates life between the hearing and deaf worlds
Trujillo family: Trujillo family continue to push through medical challenges
Watkins: Marines try to rebuild their lives after skirting homelessness
Yett family: Austin grandmother tries to hold family together after twin tragedies
About Season for Caring
Each family in the 25th Statesman Season for Caring program has been nominated by a respected Central Texas community service organization. Every penny you give will be disbursed to these organizations through the nonprofit Austin Community Foundation.
Donations beyond what’s needed to help the 12 featured families will be used by the nominating agencies to help other Central Texas families. Donors will be sent a receipt for tax purposes.
For more information on the campaign, email community@statesman.com or call 512-912-5900.
Make a donation
To give a monetary donation, go to community.statesman.com/donate or clip the coupon printed daily in the newspaper and mail it to Austin Community Foundation, c/o Statesman Season for Caring, 4315 Guadalupe St., Suite 300, Austin, TX 78751. Make checks payable to “Statesman Season for Caring.”
To donate in-kind goods and services, read the families’ wish lists and contact the families’ listed agencies directly or go to the families’ online wish lists in their stories online to donate an item directly through retailers like Amazon, Walmart or Target.
Follow Season for Caring
See more photos and video, and read updated stories at statesman.com/seasonforcaring.
Find regular updates on the program each day in the newspaper, on X (formerly Twitter) at @seasonforcaring and on the Statesman Season for Caring Facebook page.
Donate here
Use the form below or click here: https://statesmansfc.kimbia.com/statesmanseasonforcaring
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: How to help families, donate for Statesman Season for Caring 2023
