Breathing Through It

Breathing Through It

by | Apr 21, 2015 | Being Present, Uncategorized

The previous three weeks had been hard ones.  We’d gone too many miles on not enough gallons and even little comforts had been few and far between.    A year-and-a-half into our travels, we were quite used to basic accommodations:  small beds, lumpy mattresses, sheets...
Camp Brave Heart applications available

Camp Brave Heart applications available

by | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized

Madison Irby knows all too well about loss. Her father died in a car accident when she was six years old. Her mother remembers those first terrible years — the grief, the isolation, the hiding in the house on father’s day. When Madison was 12, her mother...
You did it! Thank You.

You did it! Thank You.

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Fundraising, Hospice, Uncategorized

 It was a nail-biting finish. Amplify Austin’s goal this year for its 24-hour online giving festival was to raise $7 million for over 500 nonprofits. Hospice Austin set the lofty goal of raising $250,000 in online donations. That goal was so lofty, in fact, that we...

You Make Our Mission Possible

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Hospice, Volunteering

Hi friends, the countdown to Amplify Austin is on and we need more secret agents to join our elite mission!  For a fun Hospice Austin video we put together for Amplify Austin, the city-wide online giving festival on March 5-6, please click here. Our theme for this...

It’s Time to Talk

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized

Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard ended her life on November 1, 2014 with a lethal dosage of prescribed drugs. Her incurable illness was a tragedy. Her candor and willingness to share her final days with the public were acts of courage which illustrate the need to...