Communities In Schools of Central Texas brings resources and relationships to school campuses, surrounding students with a community of support, and empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. This organization was recently recognized by Greenlights as one of Austin’s non-profits of the year. We talked with Chief… read more
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Small but powerful
The School of Social Work may be one of the smaller units at UT Austin but it is pretty powerful when it comes to bring money to advance research. During fiscal year 2013-2014, social work faculty and researchers brought $10 million in grants, which places our school in seventh place… read more
Business for social change
TOM’S shoes and Food Recovery Network are well known examples of social entrepreneurship, or the use of business skills and strategies to address social problems. Social work professor Dorie Gilbert has built upon this trend for her new signature course, Social entrepreneurship: Starting a business for social change, where students… read more
