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AMBIS Group-Austin Memorial and Burial Information Society
AMBIS is a voluntary, nonprofit, nonsectarian consumer association dedicated to a consumer's right to meaningful, dignified, and affordable end of life choices.

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas
Offers a large collection of local and national American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and related information.

Andrews Nuclear Waste Dump
Mission is to stop Andrews nuclear waste dump, a huge private toxic chemical and radioactive waste processing and storage facility in Andrews County, Texas.

Any Baby Can
To enhance the lives of children with disabilities or other special health care needs: ABC works to ensure that "Any Baby Can reach maximum potential."

The Association of American Cultures
To represent the concerns of people of diverse populations in the United States in regard to the preservation and creative vitality of their respective cultural identity through the arts.

Atheist Community of Ausitn
Promoting positive atheism and separation of church and state

Austin Breastfeeding Task Force
The Austin Breastfeeding Task Force is an emergency task force that supports community initiatives to restore and increase breastfeeding support services in Austin area hospitals, especially those serving Austin s at-risk population.

Austin CROP Hunger Walk

The Austin Living Wage Coalition
Works to ensure economic justice for all Austinites, so that no working Austinite will lack the necessities of life. We will support the furtherance of economic justice, for the establishment of a living wage for all working people throughout Austin.

Austin Pets Alive!
Austin Pets Alive! is an organization of concerned citizens dedicated to ending the killing of adoptable pets at the Town Lake Animal Center.

Austin's House the Homeless
House the Homeless is an education and advocacy group educating the public about the causes of homelessness, and also advocating viable solutions to solve this social disease.

Bastrop County Environmental Network

Better Benefits Coalition
To provide access to affordable, quality healthcare benefits. A not-for-profit coalition of private and public businesses that came together in 1999 to improve the quality of benefits they provide to their employees.

Center for Public Policy Priorities
The CPPP is a research and advocacy organization that seeks solutions to the challenges faced by low- to moderate-income families in Texas.

Common Cause of Texas
The nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens' lobby is a leading force in the battle for honest and accountable government at the national, state and local level - with a proven track record of hard-fought legislative campaigns and victories.

Envision Central Texas
A non-profit organization composed of a diverse group of citizens - neighborhood, environmental, business leaders and policy makers - who share the common goal of addressing growth sensibly with the interests of the region's citizens in mind.

Greater Austin Right to Life
Exists to secure the right to life of all innocent human beings, and to promote the right to life of all innocent human beings, and to promote respect for the worth and dignity of all human life from the moment of conception until natural death.

Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights
The Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights is a grassroots movement dedicated to promoting peace with justice for Palestinians.

Just Transportation Alliances
Our goal is to organize people with disabilities, low-income citizens, and other citizens for equitable transportation through local and statewide organizations.

Lesbian/Gay Rights of Texas
LGRL works toward the elimination of social, legal, and economic discrimination based on sexual orientation through lobbying, education, and research directed toward the Texas Legislature and other state governmental agencies.

Liveable City
Liveable City is an inclusive network of individuals working together to create a community consensus to promote policies that address the long term social, environmental and economic needs of the people of Austin.

Methodist Federation for Social Action - SW Texas
An independent voice for justice within Methodism since 1907. MFSA unites activists within the United Methodist Church to take action on issues of justice, peace and liberation in the church, nation and world.

National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere
S.A.V.E. is a national, school-based nonprofit organization created by students for students that promotes the virtues of peace, civility and nonviolence by helping students of all ages learn how to care for other people.

North Central Austin Interstate 35 Neighborhoods and Citizens Alliance
We seek a context sensitive redesign of Interstate 35 that minimizes cut-through traffic provides safe access and connectivity for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers; mitigates noise, and maintains reasonable right-of-way encroachment.

People Against Violent Crime
Assists victims of violent crime and their families by: Informing victims of their rights, Providing 24 hour hotline, Attending trials upon request, Offering emotional support, Providing information about other services.

Political Asylum Project of Austin
To provide free and low-cost legal services and education to promote justice for immigrants and refugees in Central Texas.

Stand Down Austin

Texas Freedom Network
Mobilizes the grassroots to support rational public policy in the areas of public education and individual and religious liberties.

Texas Immigrant and Refugee Coalition
To advocate at the state level on public policies affecting the most vulnerable immigrant and refugee populations of Texas, and to strengthen local advocacy, coalition-building and public policy.

Texas Moratorium Network
Texas Moratorium Network is a grassroots organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas.

Texas Ratepayers Organization to Save Energy
A nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization. We are the only public interest group in Texas dedicated to utility energy and environmental issues in the interests of residential and low-income ratepayers.

Travis County Children's Advocacy Center
To lessen the emotional trauma of these children during the investigation and prosecution of cases, and to improve the system's response to child abuse by uniting the efforts of public agencies and enlisting community support.

Vibha - Austin
Vibha is a non-profit organization that seeks to restore to underprivileged children their basic rights to food, shelter, health and education -- in short, a future.

Volunteermatch
Dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. Search for a specific opportunity in your neighborhood through the Find section, or check out the highlighted opportunities and organizations under This Week and Hot Picks.

Walk Austin
To organize citizen support for increased use and safety of pedestrian facilities. We want to make walking a safer and more desirable activity, in the hope that more Austinites will choose to walk.

Women's Advocacy Project
A statewide, nonprofit, legal organization founded in 1982 with a mission to provide free legal advice, expand legal education, and promote access to justice for Texas women in need.

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