Community

These pages are always under construction and constantly evolving. I hope you'll use these pages of links as a reference as well as a map to some of the more interesting and relevant places on the Internet. If you have a suggestion for a link you think I should include in these pages, please send your idea to me by clicking here.

To get involved, or help get others involved, in your community:

American Blood Centers (Find locations to donate blood in your community)

American Red Cross (Find locations to donate blood in your community)

Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas (Give blood in Austin)

CharityGift.com, a location for you to make contributions to worthy causes, or contribute in the names of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients

FamilyCares

International Volunteer Programs Association

Literacy Austin

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic

SERVEnet

Single Volunteers

The Union Society, facilitating cross-party conversation and political action for a network of citizens who aspire to transcend Left-Right political divides by searching for creative policy solutions.

VolunteerMatch

For more information about Austin, visit these Web sites:

Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Best of Austin, 2001, as compiled by readers of the Austin Chronicle

Austin Chronicle, the city's alternative newsweekly

Austin American-Statesman, the city's daily newspaper

The Daily Texan, the university's daily newspaper

www.austin360.com, the community calendar maintained by the Austin American-Statesman

KUT, 90.5 FM, Austin's National Public Radio affiliate (listen on RealPlayer)

KGSR, 107.1 FM, Austin's hometown community radio station (listen through Yahoo!Broadcast on either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player)

Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

City of Austin (including information about parks and recreation)

Click here for Wild Texas' comprehensive list of parks and recreation areas in and around Austin.

Austin Public Library

University of Texas Libraries online

Arts and entertainment at the University of Texas