Daily Archives: 03/16/2010

(Community Matters) Victoria Hentrich and I were having dinner tonight at Fonda San Miguel.  Lucky to join Tom Gilliland and author Lucinda Hutson. I learned all about the Sept 13 Mexican Independence Event taking place in Austin – Teresa Long & Bobbie Topfer helping launch.  After a few margs and several glasses of wine, I think I agreed to help fundraise –ay yi yi

(Community Matters) Congrats to all the nominees and winners.  Pirated this pic from Michael Barnes’ Out & About – Doug Ulman & Amy Grace Tharp two favorite friends among the bunch.

(Community Matters) I spent a couple of hours with Foundation Community’s ED, Walter Moreau, this morning.  Even took notes – their organization is best of class –  best affordable housing organization in Central Texas.  Have lots of notes I’ll include sometime later – 2k+ units under mgmt, they layer intensive programs which help families and their children move up the social economic ladder, not just live in housing.  Apologies I’ve been so slammed and unable to spend more time on this posting.

It was my privilege to confirm to Walter that the ACF Chestnut Commons Fund was granting their new M-Station project a $500k challenge grant.  I wanna help make this $1.5mm.