Organizations we support
A youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as means to affect lasting change for youth participants, and to nourish East Austin residents who currently have limited access to healthy foods. On a 2-5 acre urban organic farm, our project will provide employment, life and job skills, and service opportunities to under-served youth aged 14-18 in East Austin. 15 farm interns, ages 14-18, are hired to work from February to July, growing 15,000-20,000 lbs of produce every year—donating 40% of that to hunger relief and selling 60% at farmers’ markets and farm stands run by the farm interns.
Eat Local Week, the winter fundraiser event, is an invitation to Central Texans to explore and celebrate the abundance of local food and to raise money for Urban Roots, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as a means to transform the lives of young people and to increase the access of healthy food in Austin.
The Austin Community Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides stewardship for over seven hundred individual charitable funds. The Austin Community Foundation’s grants, whether from specific charitable funds or from the general fund, support health, human services, arts and culture, the environment, community development and community service, education and training, recreation, and animal-related services.
From their founding in 1997 as the Capital Area Homeless Alliance, they have worked to create practical solutions for helping people find their way home. Through shelter and permanent-housing programs, skills development, employment resources and more, Front Steps supports low-income workers, disabled and homeless individuals and their families to find lasting and affordable housing.
St. Andrew’s seeks students of character and intelligence from diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and maintains a scholarship program to support that diversity. The school strives to help young people achieve their potential not only in intellectual understanding but also in esthetic sensitivity, physical well-being, athletic prowess and moral decisiveness so that they may lead productive, responsible lives, not only for themselves, but also for their community.
The Project is a statewide non-profit family law firm that is now in its 26th year of service! The staff is made up of top notch lawyers who employ cutting edge legal strategies to help victims who couldn’t ordinarily access the legal system. Their services are free, and they do not discriminate.
Workers Defense Project is a membership-based organization that empowers Latina/o immigrant workers to act collectively for racial and economic justice in the workplace through leadership development, education, organizing and collaborating with strategic allies.
Young Texans Against Cancer (YTAC) is a start-up, nonprofit organization comprised of young men and women affected directly or indirectly by cancer, who actively support the cancer community through the following efforts: Raising funds to help support research-based and small- to medium-sized organizations, increasing support for volunteer organizations, and educating our community about cancer research.
The art of pizza tossing, down to a weensy science.
Get this!
Researchers at Monash University in Australia have broken down the physics of the art of pizza tossing and used those mathematical principles to design teeny tiny motors called standing wave ultrasonic motors (SWUMs). Essentially itty bitty pizzas that never stop spinning.
The system’s dynamics explains why certain tossing motions are used by dough-toss performers for different tricks: a helical trajectory is used in single tosses because it maximizes energy efficiency and the dough’s airborne rotational speed, a semi-elliptical motion is used in multiple tosses because it is easier for maintaining dough rotation at the maximum rotational speed. The system’s bifurcation diagram and basins of attraction also informs SWUM designers about the optimal design for high speed and minimal sensitivity to perturbation.
If you want to get nerd mathy, check out the researchers abstract.
