JANUARY 2025 – COMMUNITY PARTNER

Each year, the Austin American-Statesman’s Season for Caring program highlights the needs of featured families from 12 local nonprofits. Readers generously donate money, goods, and services, which first benefit the featured families and then support the agency’s other neediest families. Funds raised through this initiative go directly to support families served by Hospice Austin and Austin Palliative Care with essential needs like rent, utilities, and groceries.

Hospice Austin and Austin Palliative Care have been fortunate to have a family featured in the Season for Caring campaign for several years. This year, Olga Guzma and Jazmine Campbell were each selected to participate in the program. You can read about their stories here Season for Caring | Hospice Austin

Support from Season for Caring has allowed us to create a Special Needs Fund for our patients. This fund supports individuals like 86-year-old Gloria, who once faced the heartbreaking decision of whether to feed her cat or herself. Thanks to Season for Caring, Gloria now receives HEB gift cards, ensuring she no longer has to make that choice. It helps other patients with rent, bills, food, and transportation.

So many of our families have decimated their savings after years of fighting an illness; Season for Caring funds have made a profound difference in the lives of hundreds of Hospice Austin and Austin Palliative Care families.

Thank you, Austin American Statesman and Season for Caring. We are honored to name you as a community partner.

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