Benevolences

St. Andrews devotes a percentage of its budget annually to support community organizations that share our vision and goals for the world. Click on the links below to learn more about these organizations. 

Earth Care

Plastic Reduction Project: seeks to reduce plastic production, consumption, and waste and serve as a platform to help people be more effective and more impactful in their own community sustainability efforts. 

Save Our Springs Alliance: advocates for the protection of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer.

Evergreen Action: seeks to place climate action at the top of America's agenda through an ambitious, actionable policy roadmap for an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change and create jobs in a thriving, just, and inclusive clean energy future.

Carbon180: works to design and champion equitable, science-based policies that bring carbon removal solutions to gigaton scale.

Union of Concerned Scientists: puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

Rocky Mountain Institute: was founded to radically improve America’s energy practices and has since extended its influence globally, to help usher the world toward a clean, prosperous, and secure low-carbon future for all.

Mission–Community Outreach

Foundation Communities: is a local, homegrown nonprofit. Founded in 1990, they provide affordable homes and free on-site support services for families, veterans, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. They attempt to empower residents and neighbors to achieve educational success, financial stability, and healthier lifestyles. They own and operate 22 communities all over Austin and in North Texas.

Foundation for the Homeless: works to empower families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

Manos de Cristo: The mission of Manos de Cristo is to empower low-income individuals with a loving hand of assistance and without regard to age, gender, race, or religious preference. Manos de Cristo promotes dignity and self-reliance by meeting basic needs with food and clothing, providing essential oral care, and furthering educational development.

Pflugerville Community Center: provides information and support for individuals and families including a food pantry, utility assistance, housing-related assistance, clothing closet, publicly accessible computers, job search services, a senior lunch program and entry to the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Food program. 

Planned Parenthood: provides trusted, evidence-based sexual healthcare and education while advocating for reproductive justice, care without judgment, and access to healthcare for all.

Social Justice

Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera: raises awareness about conditions of social and economic injustice along the Texas/Mexico border particularly as they affect displaced and disenfranchised communities and supports community-driven resistance to injustice through transnational solidarity and fair trade.

Casa Marianella: is a volunteer-driven emergency homeless shelter in east Austin, serving recently-arrived immigrants and asylum seekers from around the world. In addition to shelter, it offers access to legal and medical resources, food, clothing, English Classes, and other resources.

iACT: exists to build healthy relationships between the faith communities of Central Texas. Sponsors Red Bench, Hands on Housing, iACT for Refugees, iACT “Passport” Program.

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: is a political home for all who believe that freedom for the Palestinian people is an integral part of achieving our collective liberation. It provides resources and strategic support to the U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movement to change in U.S. policy and public opinion. 

More Light: works toward the full participation of LGBTQIA+ people in the life, ministry and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) – and in society.

National Council on Independent Living: seeks to advance the disability-led Independent Living Movement and to expand the capacity of Independent Living Programs to enhance the human and civil rights of all people with disabilities.

Out Youth – Austin: offers youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities a place where they are loved, acknowledged, and accepted for exactly who they are. 

RESULTS: is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people who use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty.

SAFE: (Stop Abuse For Everyone) provides housing, healing, and support for individuals and families affected by domestic violence, and sexual assault and exploitation through prevention and intervention services. In addition, the organization promotes safe and healthy relationships, increasing the capacity for abuse prevention in Central Texas.

Workers Defense Project: is a membership-based organization that empowers low-income workers to achieve fair employment through education, direct services, organizing and strategic partnerships.