Partnerships and Supporting Foundations

Please click on our partners logos to learn more of their history, and click here to learn about BCDC volunteer and donation opportunities for you to be a provider of hope for your vulnerable neighbors.

Thanks to generous support from @TSAHC’s Texas Foundations Fund, Blackland CDC is able to

strengthen the supportive services we provide to our residents. Grants like this support

our staff and create housing stability for those within our community. This generous fund assists BCDC in being able to have a full time Supportive Housing Case Manager

An Austin City Council ordinance passed in 1996 created the Religious Coalition to Assist the Homeless. Congregations from across the city pool their drainage fees to support emergency shelter beds, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and the support needed to help formerly homeless people stay in housing. These funds assist us in being able to have a full time Supportive Housing Case Manager.

If your congregation owns its property and that property is located in the city of Austin, you only need to contact RCAH to join. Joining the Coalition is simple.  Each congregation is required to fill out a City of Austin affidavit/application and a Texas Sales and Use Tax Exemption Certificate and submit it to the Coalition’s fund administrator.

P.O. Box 5493 Austin, TX 78763 Email:  info@rcahaustin.com

The Donald D. Hammill Foundation was established to improve the quality of life for people who have disabilities, the aged, and people who are financially disadvantaged, including the working poor and those who are indigent or chronically ill. The Hammill grant helps BCDC provide more intensive property repairs empowering the agency to provide safe, stable and deeply affordable housing.

Cooks Nook hires locally to develop and distribute “food as medicine” nutrition solutions for public and healthcare organizations that lead to improved health outcomes by providing fresh, nutritious, and culturally relevant meals to address food insecurity and chronic disease. Cooks Nook provides between 50-100 meals every week we distribute to families experiencing food insecurity. Increasing food security takes financial pressure off of families living on the economic margins and increases housing security and stability as well as improved health outcomes.

Area plant nurseries supply BCDC with plants that have not made it through the transportation to the nursery in a condition for resale. The partnership with BCDC upcycles pants that would otherwise be discarded into the land fill. These partnership fuel our gardens to grow a community with fresh and healthy foods for households living with food insecurity. Increasing food security takes financial pressure off of families living on the economic margins and increases housing security and stability.