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| The Silverton Foundation was created to help families, individuals and communities transcend poverty by building on their strengths and resiliencies. Founded in 2000 and headquatered in Austin, Texas, the Foundation uses its resources to provide increased opportunity and equity for those who are striving to reach their greatest potential. Through its grant making, the Foundation supports agencies and programs which strive to empower the working poor to improve their lives. Through its activities, the Foundation strives to foster greater community awareness of and commitment to social enterprise. Our 2006 Annual Report, winner of an Excellence in Communications award in the Wilmer Shields Rich competition sponsored by the Council on Foundations, and our 2006 Form 990-PF, are available on-line in .pdf format. |
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| 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award |
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| Developing Career Skills at Capital IDEA |
| In collaboration with the Sooch Foundation, the Silverton Foundation implemented a funding program to help advance Capital IDEA's five year strategic plan to triple job placements, double enrollment, diversify funding sources and develop new high skill career opportunities for unemployed and underemployed Central Texas adults. |
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| Tax Assistance for Low Income Working Families |
| A lead gift from the Silverton Foundation enabled Foundation Communities to establish Community Tax Centers to ensure that low income working families in central Texas claim and receive their Earned Income Tax Credit. For the tax year ended April 15, 2008 the Centers increased the number of returns prepared to an impressive 17,284 returns processed. These returns yielded over $21 million in refunds. Nine Community Tax Centers were in operation throughout central Texas for the 2008 tax season. The Foundation recently extended its funding commitment to enable the Community Tax Centers to operate year around beginning in 2008. Activities will expand to provide small business services, financial and credit counseling, immigrant assistance to obtain ITIN numbers and file returns, and special circumstance return extensions and review. Click here to read a summary of Community Tax Centers activity during 2008. Click here to read the full 2007 tax season report. |
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| A Focus on Family Literacy |
The Foundation believes in education as a pathway out of poverty for children from low income families. A compelling body of national research suggests that a particularly effective way to help children from economically disadvantaged families be successful in school is to improve family environments by providing educational services to the whole family, as early and in as comprehensive a fashion as possible. The Foundation supports the efforts of a collaborative of early childhood education service providers striving to enact the recommendations of a public task force assembled by the superintendent of the Austin Independent School District to identify and implement best practices for the delivery of early childhood education at the Lucy Read pre-K Demonstration School in north Austin. Click here to read the resulting Action Plan and learn more about the Lucy Read Family Literacy Collaborative, and click here to read the Final Report and Recommendation of the AISD Task Force on Early Childhood Education which guides the work of the Collaborative. |
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